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If you get Chinese food in Oklahoma, the waitresses will probably be from Vietnam. The food will be sweet and sour, crispy, and fried. Hard, dry fried dumplings will be found next to something called ‘spring rolls’, and the chopsticks are for decoration only. You must get some ginger cookies for desert and you won’t get away without reading your fortune cookie. Chinese food in America is real comfort food, and you can eat and eat and eat until your stomach is about to burst. Restaurant names have to include words like “Panda”, “Dragon”, or “Royal”.

Chinese food is popular in America.

When you go out to eat in America, you first decide what category of food you want: Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, or something else. Mexican food is not really what people eat in Mexico. Japanese food is mainly sushi. Italy is not where pizza comes from. Every national cuisine has been altered to suit American taste buds, and every helping has been supersized.

The USA is so big that it depends on where you are what food is popular and good. Just like in China where they have different types of food for unique areas of the country like Hunan, Cantonese, and Szechuan. Louisiana has shrimp, Maine has lobster, and Wisconsin has cheese. Every location has a specialty and the only common thread throughout the country is the fast food fare.

Country cooking is American food where I come from. That would be fried chicken, fried okra, fried potatoes, fried dessert, and anything else that is fried. We like beans and cornbread. We eat pan-fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy. We drink iced tea and eat Jell-O and peach cobbler. Our four favorite words are, “All You Can Eat”.