Chinese food is so good and diverse. I had this spicy white fish dish once in Guangdong that was just incredible, I think about it often lol, can’t remember what it was called

That being said there is something about american chinese food that makes me crave it from time to time (probably all the salt and sugar)

You can follow Food Ranger on youtube if you want to see a Westerner try all kinds of Chinese food, in China, without political bullshit attached (he goes to Xinjiang as well)

It's also generally healthier than american food I would assume

David Chang has a fantastic episode on Chinese food. I think it's Ugly Delicious?

"Chinese people will eat anything that has four legs other than a table, anything that flies other than an airplane, and anything that swims other than a submarine."

I don't think westerns have ever thought they don't have a diverse appetite. The joke has always been that it is too diverse.

i enjoy both panda express and authentic chinese cuisine. there are some niche things like drunken shrimp eaten alive, but the vast majority of chinese people don't eat "weird" foods like it. they eat stuff you'd typically find in a chinese restaurant in the west, which tend to be pretty authentic.

Get some duck tongue.

Although Chinese food is pretty diverse, I don't want to be that foreigner who travels to that one small village in the middle of bumfuck China where they serve a village delicacy of virgin piss eggs.