Why do so many people like Chinese takeout anyway? It's icky. The kung pao and General Tso's is not authentic at all. I mean they think orange chicken and sugary sesame chicken is Chinese food, it's not even Chinese food. Real Chinese food is so much more diverse and intense than some sugarized Chinese takeout food in UK and USA. I mean it's funny how many Westerners swear by Chinese food from Chinese takeout, but I have no interest in it cos it doesn't taste like Chinese food... actual Chinese food....
Westerners are weird sometimes. The Indian food they eat isn't real, the Vietnamese food they eat is sugarized and not what you find in Hanoi or Saigon. But they claim they've tasted the world's cuisines when it's all so artificial food.....
I don't think this is a fair way to look at it, the idea of "real" Chinese food. It is not Chinese-Chinese food, sure, but it is fair to call it American-Chinese food.
I don't think any Chinese North American should ever look down on General Tso's Chicken. How many of these take out restaurants paid for the education of doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.? The long hours put into the Kitchen. The struggle to deal with a totally different language. The hard work of building a bridge between cultures. This is the experience of overseas Chinese captured in food.
In a way, it is a testament of Chinese people/culture to adapt and succeed no matter where they go. Just because Americans love sugary-sweet food, what can you do but give them what they want?
If you look at Chinese food all over the world, it really means something different to everybody anyway. Caribbean Chinese food, Hakka-Indian Chinese, Peruvian Chinese, etc. Even more "native" dishes have funny origins, Singapore fried vermicelli (HK), Hainan chicken rice (Singapore/Malaysia).
But I don't understand the god part ,maybe our Chinese ancestor had offer our dumplings and Siomai by mistake
