[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I do wonder whether it's something left over from the times before the relatively recent age of prosperity for the country. Eating any kind of meat out of necessity probably gave way to a tradition of doing so in China. It's like how most national foods that people associate with different countries will often be simple foods that aren't too difficult to make. Dishes created from necessity.

I make you right there. In India spicy food developed from the inability to keep meat fresh so they put stronger and stronger flavours to cover up the fact the meat was going putrid