Question by yogachic♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♪: What is the difference between Chinese and Cantonese Thai food?
I’ve found that a particular dish of chicken chow mein is different depending on which Chinese take-away you use. I just want to know the difference between the above to help me pick the best one to go to.
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Answer by PoohBearPenguin
Cantonese is a type of Chinese food, whereas Thai is completely separate.
However for things like chow mein, every place will have its own unique recipe. It’s like marinara sauce for an Italian restaurant. Same dish, slightly different ingredients and flavors. Unfortunately this means without actually tasting the food from each of the restaurants you’re considering, it’s impossible to tell you which one tastes the best (to me, anyways – your tastes will vary.)
What do you think? Answer below!
Hi…Cantonese has definitely nothing to do with Thai. It’s a name for one of the Chinese dialects or a kind of food Chinese Cantonese people eat and the same goes for Chinese Mandarin. Chow-mein is not Thai food…except some of those Thai restaurants who have their signs say Thai-Chinese. If I’m not mistaken chow mein is a fried noodle…we Thai have this fried noodle called Pad-thai which is pretty sweet and not spicy at all. It’s a non-Thai’s favorite dish. They are just totally two different things. I don’t know…but Panda Express (Chinese) sounds good to me right now…hehe.
chinese food is food from china, or food that chinese make or eat. canton is a region in china, so cantonese food is food that is from that region, but is still considered chinese food. Thai food is food from Tailand, which is a whole different country.
chicken chow mein is a chinese dish, so if a thai restaurant is selling it, then they are selling a chinese dish not a thai dish, probably bacause more people eat chinese food than thai food. and thailand is close enough to china that americans dont really care that its not thai food.
china is a big country and some regions have different tastes. cantonese food tend to be sweeter and not spicy. others(Hunan, schechwan) can be more spicy. thai food has heat and sourness and if thai people make chicken chow mein, they might put their own taste into the dish.
There is no such thing as Cantonese Thai food. Cantonese is a regional Chinese cuisine from China and Thai food comes from Thailand which has nothing to do with China. The food is also completely different.