Is chinesse food processed or home made? Please answer!?!

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if you get it from a chinease home, its home made

if its bought in the supermarket its processed

if its bought in a restuarant, its restaurant made... very rarely would they spend the extra $$$ the more expesnsive, less quality processed stuff.

When compared to other fast food restaurants, much more Chinese food is made from scratch rather than from processed food, if that's what you're asking. Say for pizzas, hot dogs and sandwiches, all meats used are processed already meaning you can eat them before putting into the dough and bread. The bread is also bought ready to eat. Chinese restaurant operators buy raw meat, cut, season and cook them in the kitchen, they cook rice and noodle from raw too. Even if some Chinese chain restaurants get the entrees sent to them in frozen packages, they are actually cooked from scratch in a central kitchen run by the head quarters, then frozen and sent out.

This question is a little confusing as to what exactly you want to know....

If you mean in the restaurants, then no it's actually not. The brown sauce they make is very simple and sadly, very unauthentic. Chinese places here in America are suited to the American peoples taste, so naturally it is going to be quite different. All vegetables and meats are also cut up and prepared there, although it is possible they might buy frozen dumplings, though I doubt it.

If you mean to say at home, definitely not. Chinese are very particular about quality of food, going so far as to have a specific saying during dinner "you wait on the food, it does not wait for you" (meaning, when it is served you eat it hot, the fresher it is the better it will taste). Only in America have I ever eaten packaged noodles if that tells you anything about the freshness of the foods made inside every home (you can buy fresh noodles made by others in the local markets easily as well, they sell them everywhere).

You can buy prepackaged chinese foods though from local chinese markets. It's hard to find the same things we had in China, but the imported things are generally close. We'll buy things like, aged tofu in jars or pickled garlic sometimes, and I suppose those are processed though in China they have their own cannisters of them made fresh in the markets as well.

processed because you can just buy in almost any store like wegmans or walmart