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Monday, April 11, 2011
Broccoli Beef
The quintessential Chinese-American dish, developed by Chinese immigrants in America for non-Chinese palates, sneered at by "authentic" Chinese food snobs, beloved by myself:
Yum. Dunno what you put in your "sauce", but I am very happy that our local Sunnyvale Costco now sells good quality (IMHO) oyster sauce in gigantic glass bottles.
Speaking of Alaskan broccoli-beef, we ordered that very dish at the Chinese restaurant in North Pole. It was actually quite good - more of an assorted stir-fry, with al-dente brocco, straw mushrooms, baby corn, slices of carrot and maybe celery? The also quintessential American concoction of Sweet and Sour deep-fried nuggets of pork with lurid red ketchupy sauce was not as good...terrible, in fact.
Have you ever tried vegetarian oyster sauce? It's mushroom-based. I don't like mushrooms, but that sauce tastes okay to me, and the tree hugger in me likes that it's vegetarian. :)
Just like Chicken Tikka Masala.
ReplyDeleteSometimes immigrant fusion to the new palate is awesome.
Broccoli Beef is one of those times (I assume that's what is pictured, if not, I stand by my statement, but do tell.)
The last comment was me, btw.
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Yum. Dunno what you put in your "sauce", but I am very happy that our local Sunnyvale Costco now sells good quality (IMHO) oyster sauce in gigantic glass bottles.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Alaskan broccoli-beef, we ordered that very dish at the Chinese restaurant in North Pole. It was actually quite good - more of an assorted stir-fry, with al-dente brocco, straw mushrooms, baby corn, slices of carrot and maybe celery? The also quintessential American concoction of Sweet and Sour deep-fried nuggets of pork with lurid red ketchupy sauce was not as good...terrible, in fact.
Have you ever tried vegetarian oyster sauce? It's mushroom-based. I don't like mushrooms, but that sauce tastes okay to me, and the tree hugger in me likes that it's vegetarian. :)
ReplyDeleteYou should make an Alaskan version - brocolli moose. or brocolli bison.
ReplyDeleteThat... ahhh... is already bison.
ReplyDeleteYou SO nailed that.
:)
I thought we had that discussion of beef vs. bison vs. etc. I thought bison is... bison not moose?
ReplyDeleteBison is closely related to domesticated cows (well, 'closely' being relative to moose and deer), so I think it's fair to call them 'beef'. :)
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