In Part #1 we looked at Mexican,Italian and Greek foods. Today,in part #2, I thought I’d discuss the Chinese fast food market. I looked at various different restaurants and fast food joints and couldn’t separate one from the other as far as unique foods and cultures were concerned. So I tried my best and here’s what you can get at a usual fast food Chinese place.While doing some research on the subject, I realized that Chinese food is the most flexible and the most unique when it came to cooking food. Asians typically eat food in portions so each meal is diced,sliced or cut up into smaller sized portions as opposed to it being large and greasy like American food. Their flexibility comes in their variety of foods as most of the other cultures in the last article focused on one particular food or dish, where as Chinese food can come from many different sources. These sources each have their own different names and identities as well with such names as Szechuan or Cantonese being the favorites in North America.These names come from different regional areas of China and each offer something unique to Asian cuisine. Here’s a full listing of the regional cooking styles of China.

* Anhui
* Cantonese
* Fujian
* Hunan
* Jiangsu
* Shandong
* Sichuan
* Zhejiang

Asians seem to favor many different meat products like pork, chicken or beef mixed in with a variety of different spicy or sweet sauces as well as different varieties of rice, steamed vegetables or noodle dishes. Szechuan typically features spicier food where as Cantonese is more traditional and incorporates more seafood into their menu with different kinds of fish being offered to eat. Also, due to its many varieties; Chinese food incorporates itself very well with buffets which Americans love to eat at.

There are simply way too many dishes to discuss in one article so I will begin by focusing mainly on a few dishes that are more popular with Asian-American fast food restaurants:

1. Kung Pao Chicken: A spicy Szechuan dish made with diced chicken, peanuts and chili peppers. It is named after a Kung Pao or court official.

2. Wonton Soup: is a full meal in itself consisting of thin egg noodles and a few wontons in a pork soup broth. (more…)

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It seems like the more fast food places that you go to nowadays, the more restricted you are on what you can eat. Long gone are the days of the diner or to the place that you could go to where everybody could order something unique that they wanted to eat.

These days it’s all about cultured foods that cater to one society’s unique appetite and unfortunately causes a lot of arguments over where to eat at dinner time. Let’s break it down by looking at each culture and what the fast food joints like to capitalize with for their meals by starting with Greek, Italian and Mexican Food.

Greek Food:

-Souvlakis are the hamburgers of Greece. They are wrapped in pita bread and come with lettuce, tomato, onions, and sadziki,a cucumber-yogurt and garlic type of sauce.

-Greek Salads are a tomato and cucumber salad seasoned with onion, olive oil, vinegar, fete cheese and oregano. Traditionally, no lettuce in a Greek Salad!

-Lamb, I’ve noticed they’re a big fan of lamb and put olive oil in whatever they eat so if you don’t like olive oil for any reason,be warned.

Italian food:

-Pasta ,no meal doesn’t involve some form of noodles in a mixture of tomato sauce. (more…)

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More and more people are getting angry at the way fast food chains promote bad eating habits.That’s why a bunch of alternative fast food chains have opened up shop recently to try and take a bite out of McDonald’s and the like. One of the ones that caught my eye recently is a new chain called ‘Cereality’, which is a fast food chain based on cereals. They offer cereals with both cold and warm milk and offer over 12 brand name cereals to choose from. You are allowed to mix two cereals at a time as well as one topping of your choice.Cereality offers every type of topping to choose from including simple things like dried blueberries or more outrageous stuff like pop rocks. They also offer different types of milk including soy or lactose-free milk if you want an alternative to skim, 2% or whole milk. They even offer a new twist on the colour of milk with the use of Cereality’s own flavour crystals that allow someone to change the colour of their milk to different colours such as red or blue.

In the mood for something other than cereal?Cereality provides s’mores and oatmeal brownies as well as their very own oatmeal twist on parfaits. Do you want something to drink? Cereality offers their own version of a smoothie with the ever so cute name of a ‘Slurreality’. Slurrealities offer a concoction of strawberries, bananas, yogurt, OJ and bran cereal. Cereality also offers their own version of a bowl to make sure that your cereal stays where it’s supposed to with their own milk tight concept of a plastic container.

At select locations, they also offer an invent-a-blend kiosk that let’s you practice mixing up a new version of cereal as well as pay for your meal and retain your customer purchase on their database for future reference. A basic meal consisting of two scoops of cereal,flavour and milk will cost you about 4$. Currently there are only two cereality locations in the United States with a third location set to open soon in Chicago. If successful, Cereality will be coming to a mall, train or subway station near you.

Click here for a CBS News report on Cereality:

http://cereality.com/TheNews.wmv

(go to www.cereality.com for more information)

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