Is there any chinese dishes that have cheese?

Question

I was boared, and I got to thinking about chinese food. I love chinese food, but I can't think of any chinese dishes that have cheese in it.

Answer 1

No, and my Chinese roommate is pretty leery of cheese.

Answer 2

Authentic Chinese food has no cheese.

Most takeout Chinese food isn't what Chinese people like to eat, it's what their customers like to buy. So it isn't authentic. All those cream cheese wontons mentioned above are a perfect example of this.

Cheese is made from milk that has been deliberately allowed to spoil and curdle. If you haven't acquired the taste for this at a young age, it's hard to change. By the way, the same is true for yogurt and sour cream. (Since it's already gone sour, what's the expiration date for?)

In a country without many cows, no one acquires the taste for milk, to say nothing of cheese. What milk they have is reserved for the toothless--babies and old people--since it's a nutritious alternative to solid food.

And it's true, the English word "cheese" sounds a lot like the Cantonese words for "pigs.h.i..t" or "eat s.h.i.t"

Answer 3

The closest thing to cheese in an Asian dish would be a cream cheese rangoon. It's a fried wonton noodle around a ball of cheese. It's very Americanized. As a culture, Asians will not touch cheese. They're disgusted by it.

Answer 4

The Chinese never produced cheese throughout history, therefore, it was never incorporated into their dishes. In the later dynasties, European ambassadors presented cheese to the Chinese emperors, and that was the first time they knew of cheese. They described the smell of cheese as '**** smell'. Indeed, 'cheese' when spoken with a Chinese tongue sounds like 'eat ****' in Chinese.

Answer 5

I had a recipe from someone who cooked Chinese food as modified by the pacific island she grew up on. She made a fruit salad from canned and fresh fruit and always mixed shredded cheese into it. It was a surprisingly good combo.

Crab rangoon has cream cheese mixed with chopped green onion and crab inside a fried wonton wrapper pinched together.

Answer 6

Your right. Cheese is not an item of food produced and eaten in Asian countries with the notable exceptions of India and the Philippines.

However they do have some soy cheese. I have seen some recipes for Asian cheese balls (calls for cream cheese) but I dont believe it is an authentic dish.

Answer 7

I think Chinese people don't really like cheese in cooked food, so do I. 'Cause I'm chinese anyway.

Answer 8

My favorite local Chinese buffet makes something they call "honey cheese." It's cream cheese mixed with honey, wrapped in a wonton skin, and fried.

It's not shaped like a wonton -- more like a chicken nugget. I doubt that it's authentic Chinese food, but it is good.

Answer 9

No, I visited China a year ago, and people there don't even know what it is. They had to invent a new word for it, and they also had to invent a new word for milkshake. I personally like cheese, but many Chinese people don't. Someone moved to the US from China and thought pizza was disgusting. As I said, tastes are different...now excuse me so I can eat my bamboo and winter melon soup...

Answer 10

Cheese-doodle-a-RONI. The China-sico Treat!

Answer 11

Cheese is not in any way a Chinese food. People in China usually have never eaten it and think it is disgusting. It's not because they think cows are sacred, as they have a lot of beef dishes.