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scr4n · 1 year

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British Chinese takeaway 🥡

salt and chilli chips, salt and chilli chicken, egg fried rice, vegetable spring rolls, sweet chilli shredded beef & extra hot curry sauce.

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starrywangxian · 1 year

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british chinese takeaways

saw a tiktok about someone being very curious about how british people eat chinese food and it was kind of funny to see someone so genuinely confused about things that are very normal to me.

to answer her (very reasonable) questions, yes we do say "i'm going for an italian/greek/mexican/chinese" instead of saying i'm going to eat italian food because here we say a chinese takeaway or a chinese restaurant so we just drop the takeaway/restaurant which leaves "a chinese". we also say things like "i went to an italian" or "there's a nice italian here" instead of saying i went to an italian restaurant or there's a nice italian restaurant. it's just a way to shorten it and it's completely normal. no one takes offense to it in the uk because it's just slang, we all know you're talking about food and restaurants/takeaways etc. so there's no need to specify it ig.

also yes, we eat a lot of chips with everything. potatoes are our staple food and the stereotype that british people love chips is not completely false lmao. it's very common for chinese, indian takeaways etc. to sell chips with their food. i don't eat chicken myself but yes chicken balls are also common for chinese takeaways. they're like boneless balls of chicken that are deep fried. it's very common to have chicken balls with sweet and sour sauce, too.

^^ this is what they tend to look like although the batter can be a darker brown sometimes.

a lot of restaurants will also even have an "english menu" (sometimes it will genuinely be called the english menu or something to that effect).

^^ here's what a chinese take-away menu might look like - notice the "english dishes" section at the top!

we also love curry sauce, and chips with curry sauce is actually amazing! it's like gravy but it tastes like curry lmao. you can even buy "chip shop curry sauce" mixes and granuales in supermarkets lol. you should definitely try it!!

^^ here's a chip shop curry sauce mix made by bisto which also makes gravy!

it's important to note that these places are in britain so they'll have typical meals that most british people will like to cover their basis, if that makes sense? this is a fusion of british and chinese food and most chinese takeaways are owned and run by british chinese people so it's a way to combine those two cuisines, so it will naturally look different to american chinese food and authentic chinese food.

that being said, we do have authentic restaurants that make actual food the proper way but those are mainly in cities as compared to the countryside or small towns. so we do eat hot pot! and actual curries! but it's not as often as having takeaways.

a lot of these takeaways in the countryside and towns may also be the closest takeaway to you so instead of going further away to get a fish and chip meal, someone may just order fish and chips from a chinese takeaway that's closer.

also idk if this is just me but she seemed to be mentioning restaurants a lot in the original tiktok and most of the people she stitched were eating takeaways. in the uk, we have small shops that only do takeaways (or take out) so there's no where for you to sit and eat in the restaurant. you order, you go to the shop to collect it or it's delivered to your house and you eat it at home (and yes i could tell from the videos because of the containers and stuff lol).

i hope that answered everything and taught you something if you didn't know before!

#it was so funny to see her reactions to something i see all the time lol #i've always been curious about other countries and cultures eating habits and stuff so it was a joy to talk about my own!#a chinese #british chinese food #starrywangxian

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autisticcasforthewin · 1 year

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One thing that gets me with this whole British Chinese food on TikTok is that Americans are really out here calling us racist for calling it a Chinese when we literally do that for all food, we’re lazy we will be saying the least amount of words possible but then will go on and call it disgusting when the food is literally being made by British-Chinese people, you haven’t even tried it how to you know.

And like of course they’re going to have chips it helps draw in business, I live in a town we have two takeaways a chippy and a Chinese, if the Chinese also serves chips it’s going to get more business. Like we used to have chips from the chippy once a week after Brownies but then when I moved up to Guides which was on the other side of town we just started getting chips from the Chinese because they were nearer and honestly tasted so much better, we got it so often my dad would walk in and they’d just start making it.

Americans really need to understand that their experiences are not universal and that people will speak differently and eat different food before they just start complaining on TikTok

#British Chinese food

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revengeromance · 6 months

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trick or treat :3

Treat! Cat that smells gay people

#I’m too nice to give tricks #but my trick would be this screenshot of British Chinese food I have #leo’s asks

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thelasttime · 3 days

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as an asian american (whose family is from Hong Kong) … chinese food made in britain is SO INTRIGUING like i know it looks ,, not anything very close to chinese food but damn why am i curious

#.txt #this is about the spice bag that they have #also clarifying that im talking abt Chinese-British fusion #im sure there’s good authentic chinese food there too

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rickchung · 6 months

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Chinatown BBQ x Vancouver.

Signature "Four Treasures" chef’s plate: Chinese barbecue pork, soy sauce chicken, roasted pork, and ½ salty duck egg on steamed rice.

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sunandsstars · 1 year

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update on the whole uk vs america

someone just called me a racist for referring to chinese food as “a chinese” like i’m sorry we have slang over here 💀 put it into context it means food. we don’t have to add “meal” every time we speak about chicken and rice. like what else would we mean omd

“it’s not tuna. it’s tuna fish” LIKE I KNOW ITS FUCKING FISH I DIDNT MEAN A BIRD why do some people in usa use words that mean the obvious. like horseback riding. us brits just say riding or horse riding

it’s also the fact that i called someone out for being incredibly disrespectful and borderline racist for making fun of british chinese food which are made and owned by british chinese people, and someone replied to me saying i shouldn’t talk bc i’m a coloniser.

SORRY??? 💀 no one in britain has colonised ANYONE in decades. and they act like the USA is so super innocent too like you’re forgetting your own history there

and they’re also saying we only have chinese because of colonisation 😐 first of all, know your history because our chinese food was brought over to the uk by chinese immigrants in the 60s. we have chips and other stuff that isn’t considered authentic chinese food because it’s been adapted to fit britains taste. it’s done the same in MANY other countries. thai food in the uk for example, is very different to when you actually go to thailand.

and the reason why you’re seeing chips and other non authentic chinese foods in tik toks is because different people have different taste buds. if they don’t wanna order the food stuff then that’s fine. yes we do have veggies. and yes our food is hot

it’s takeaway, it’s supposed to be an in and out situation. if we wanted authentic chinese we would go to a restaurant

don’t hate on it until you try it

#my ted talk #british v america #british chinese food is the BEST #why am i being called a racist pls help

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hesitationss · 26 days

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UK baybeyyygyy

#i will try british chinese food this year!

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tumblasha · 1 year

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pre-summer stats 🥰🫶☀️

current hairstyle: undyed dark brown slightly overgrown undercut

number of diplomas: 1

comfort items

class of 2023 water bottle

polcam

digicam

heart-shaped sunglasses

medium black-and-white nylon crescent baggu bag

crocs sandals

navy blue wh-1000xm4 sony headphones

black jbl clip 4 speaker

summer bucket list

get at least 5 new whatsapp contacts in the summer

go to a new restaurant every week

healthy duolingo streak

listen to 5 new musicians in non-english languages

go to a caboverdian live music event

try chinese-capeverdian food

#omg #so i really wanna dye my hair this summer #like #maybe i can have the sides of my head a different color before i trim it again?#i'm so excited to graduate college ee #and see if i change my water bottle (teehee)#my bucket list is gonna be so nice!#esp bc of the history of chinese population making fusion cuisines with whatever country they're assimilating to?#sadly thinking abt british chinese food #let's see #place ur bets now lads #hehe #summer bucket list #tumblasha #actual ihouse #season stats

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panicinthestudio · 3 months

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Appetite, BFI Future Film Festival 2024 Directed by Peiying Wang, UK, China Appetite explores the link between food and sex and the conflict between instinct and social discipline. A woman and a man are quietly advancing their relationship while eating at a restaurant. BFI

#British Film Institute #Peiying Wang #Chinese #art #film #short #relationships #animation #food #sexuality #2020s #21st century #Youtube

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postcard-from-the-past · 8 months

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Chinese food vendor in Hong-Kong, China

British vintage postcard

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scr4n · 9 months

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British Chinese takeaway 🥡

chicken curry with egg fried rice and salt n chilli chips 🔥

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humanrinds · 1 year

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hong kong immigrants in 1960s britain: *start their own businesses selling food that is adapted to western tastes and supplies*

white americans 60 years later: uhm excuse me what the fuck is this offensive shit

#so sick of usamericans not knowing how long non white people have existed in this country #you are not the only racially diverse country in the world #also most british born chinese people trace their roots to hong kong not mainland china #bc of colonialism #👻#and here’s a not so fun fact for you: chinese restaurants and takeaways suffered badly during corona bc of sinophobia #there are two chinese takeaways in walking distance from my house #and the one that’s been run by the same chinese family for over 25 years has had some disgusting rumours spread about them #the one run by one chinese guy and a bunch of white people has food that is ass #but they don’t get shit spread about the

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schmope-is-dead · 1 year

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I’m sorry I’ve been consumed by how weird british people are about chinese food lately. can we still make out

#tom.txt #WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE GOING TO ‘eat a chinese’#I THOUGHT AMERICAN CHINESE FOOD WAS A BIT OF A STRETCH WHAT ARE YOU EATING #british mutuals please never talk to me again what is this /lh

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the-technicolor-yawn · 6 months

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i wonder how azairaphale (british)(food enthusiast) would react to american chinese food

#good omens #aziraphale #british chinese food (derogatory)#he’d have a conniption

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newhistorybooks · 7 months

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“Eating, drinking, smoking—the bodies in nineteenth-century British writing took in Chinese influence both cavalierly and copiously. Yin Yuan’s book helps us understand this consumption by explaining, with erudition and grace, how such exotic ingestants navigated Britain’s symbolic and material Oriental encounters on their way to the heart of the empire.”

#uwlibraries #history books #british history #chinese history #cultural history #history of food #literary history

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