Tribal People Try Chinese Food

Every time the tribe has tasted chinese food: 11 videos of first impressions from villagers in rural Punjab, Pakistan, usually Chinese food they have never seen before.

Also covers: dim sum, dumplings, dumpling, fried rice, sweet and sour, kung pao, orange chicken, general tso, spring rolls, egg rolls, wonton, peking duck

What it is

Chinese food as the world eats it: sweet and sour chicken, fried rice, dumplings, spring rolls, chow mein, hot pot. Pakistani-Chinese restaurant food is its own established cuisine, so some dishes are familiar in name.

What to watch for

Chinese food has been on Pakistani wedding menus for fifty years, so chow mein, fried rice and chicken corn soup are old friends. Real dumplings, tofu and anything sweet-and-sour are where the reactions come from.

The village comparison

Pakistani-Chinese — chilli chicken, egg fried rice, manchurian — is the reference point, and it is spicier and heavier than the original. Authentic Chinese food often seems bland by comparison.

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