Took it upon myself to investigate the origins of various Taiwanese dishes after the slapfight in the other thread. Here's what I came up with.

For reference, I'm an American, and I looked these all up on Google search (which has grounding, so no need to worry about sources).

>>21487970 (OP)
Oh great another asian autism thread

Chang, your arguments have been nothing short of idiocy. As you yourself stated in the OP of your other thread, Japanese sushi wouldn't be the way it is now without Chinese influence.

Well guess what, chang? La dee da, it's the same with China too! Can you imagine Sichuan cuisine without chili peppers and potatoes from Latin America? Can you imagine hot pot or milk tea without the Mongols on their horseback? Can you imagine Chinese curry and Buddha's delight without Indian influences?

Most of what China currently refers to as "Chinese cuisine" is merely modern fabrication, often through the role and orchestration of the communists. An example would be the Wen Tianxiang story about three-cup chicken. Believing that tall tale's real is just as stupid as believing General Tso invented General Tso's chicken. "5000 years of history" is just a lie invented by Han patriots to bolster nationalism. (Oh, and just so you know? It was actually invented in Taiwan, by the way, just like three-cup chicken itself!)

I think you'd be surprised at how much of the cuisine in any country is a lot younger than you might think. Too bad you've got the Chinese patriot goggles on. (Let me guess: your mommy whipped you too hard during Chinese school?!) Therefore, any chauvinist or Han-supremacist discussion about the "authenticity" of certain dishes is utterly pointless.

Get a grip, chang. You seem overly invested in this topic, and at this point I'm starting to genuinely get worried about your mental health.

>>21487992
I am not diagnosed with autism, but I've been studying it lately. Their obsession for intricate things has inspired me to take up Chinese again. My brain feels better. It was rotting before.

>>21487992
Damn, scott cawthon really fell off

>>21487970 (OP)
Tried looking it up myself, and found a few other dishes

Fish Balls are from HK
>Fish balls (魚蛋) are one of Hong Kong's most popular and representative "street foods", eaten plain or cooked in a curry sauce. Readily available in traditional markets and supermarkets, fish balls are also a popular ingredient in hot pot.

They also had "Taiwanese sausage", though efforts to find a "true origin" for those anywhere outside Taiwan, or even within Taiwan, remained elusive despite my efforts and consulting multiple sources.

>>21487970 (OP)
Wow so your telling me a nation of people who came from somewhere else have food from that place???

>>21488710
Yeah it's almost like Taiwan's culturally a part of China or something like that.

>>21488710
Grok? Can I get a fact check on this?

This list is so fucking dumb, chang

Like using your same broken Google AI, apparently mac and cheese was invented in England

>>21489005
it was

>>21489024
fucking brits and their typical culinary craftsmanship lmaoooooo

in the 1700s tho not the 1400s or 1500s OP was claiming

>>21489005
>Baked beans
>Indigenous roots
Why is Google's AI so fucking stupid? Indigenous to fucking WHERE!?

>>21489340
I wrote "indigenous". And obviously to America by the context.

>>21489034
Macaroni is mentioned in the lyrics of Yankee Doodle

You mean to tell me a nation that used to be China has Chinese food? My Taiwanese buddy calls mainland China west Taiwan if that's an indication.

>>21490413
These morons dont even know US history, why would they know Chinese history?