The food in China is gross. American Chinese food is good however
American Chinese food is great, but it’s basically a sodium bomb. There is such a great variety of food and styles in China that you could spend a lifetime trying them all, and most are fucking amazing.
While visiting Chengdu on a restaurant equipment buying trip with about twenty other 'western' businessmen our group was taken to a large modern busy expensive restaurant. We got a tour of one of the kitchens. A couple of us wandered out on the back porch for some air.
On the porch were a couple of large uncovered bins of precooked rice waiting to be used. The rice was literally covered with hundreds of large blow flies.
Also sitting on the porch was a large cage made from steel tubing and chicken wire.
In that cage were dozens of puppies. Some dead and some barely alive.
I leaned over the porch and threw up.
We walked directly out of the kitchen and we waited in the bus for the rest of the businessmen to board the bus.
I told the tour guide what we had seen.
Her reply was: "Then you should not go on any more visits to our restaurants".