I like Chinese food as do most red-blooded Americans.
Hard to find good crab Rangoon but there is one place close by. I can take or leave most Chinese food but love the crab Rangoon.
I like Chinese cuisine, but I will not eat anything that is produced or processed in China. Lord knows what’s in it.
Eating tto much food FROM China may result in GREEN blooded Americans!
“I like Chinese food as do most red-blooded Americans.”
Like you I enjoy the taste of well prepared Chinese food made from good ingredients. I particularly enjoy eating real Chinese food in Honk Kong and in mainland China.
However, having done business in China for over 20 years I am very aware Chinese factories often substitute materials and cut corners. I’ve also seen Chinese fish farms up close and wouldn’t knowingly eat any farmed fish from China. Perhaps that’s why our Congress voted recently to eliminate country of origin labeling from imported and domestic food.
There have been several scandals involving poisons in pet food sourced from China. Avian flu infected chickens have entered the food supply in China from time to time.
My concern, based on personal observation and experience, is artificial food additives produced in China may or may not be produced according to specification. The FDA seems to have little interest in inspecting imported foods, instead it focuses on adding regulatory costs to American food processors and producers who are rapidly moving operations offshore.
I avoid artificial sweeteners and other chemical additives anyway, so the substitution of Chinese produced faux sugar for US artificial sugar, won’t be an issue for me.