pizza street menu
Posted on Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 10:59 am
is MOO GOO GAI PAN chinese for FRIED ALLEY CAT?
after helping a friends family pack everything up for a cross country move the other day, we were all treated out to a chinese restaurant down the street called MANDARIN CHEF EXPRESS* & as good (& as greasy) the food was, i couldn’t help but wonder what MOO GOO GAI PAN means. everything else on the menu was in plain english & needed no subtitles explaining what it was. hell, even GENERAL ZOD’S BEEF** was easy enough to understand. so what in the world is MOO GOO GAI PAN, & more importantly, is it even an authentic*** chinese recipe?
*(for all you sticklers for language out there, here’s a good clue that MOO GOO is NOT Cantonese!).
** (to all those geeks who know who ZOD is, & realize that i don’t give a damn who the actual generals name is, thank you)
*** (i have heard that most of the crap offered at chinese restaurants are NOT from china, but actually an Chinese-American idea, which makes me feel just as patriotic as when eating pizza!)
Moo Goo Gai Pan is a anglicized name for “Mushroom and Chicken” stir-fry. (Moo Goo = Mushroom, Gai Pan = Chicken slices) Technically, it is not a real “Chinese” recipe, but stir fry has infinite combinations of ingredients, and mushrooms and chicken can be one of those combinations. Most of the things at Chinese restaurants are American Chinese, especially the fortune cookie. You’d be hard pressed to find a fortune cookie anywhere outside of the US.
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