It was Chinese cuisine for community group this past Saturday and we had plenty to choose from, I even offered my own version of a homemade Chinese dumpling (potsticker if you will) and we all ate great. Now there are many youngsters in our group so as an alternative, we had some Corn Dogs ready and they went over well with kids. So...can Corn Dogs be Chinese? I mean googling it basically tells us that the Corn Dog is American cuisine, invented here and almost exclusively found here. So my initial reaction would be nope, its not Chinese cuisine. But when you think about it, isn't it really a hot dog with bun attached served on a chopstick?
The rest of us all ate our Chinese food with that most western of culinary devices, the fork. It was Chinese night, why weren't we using chopsticks? So, in the end we ate Chinese food with American utensils and the kids ate American with Chinese utensils (the chopstick).
Isn't that the beauty of community? Everybody brings to the table their little bit and combined we enjoy a complete feast. This week will be Italian...which we all know is really just westernized Chinese food anyway...and we will all enjoy it.
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