re: #409 ckkatz

I guess that Trump double affects you. Both as a US expat and as an expat living in China.

By the way, thanks for the info and thoughts on China from the thread yesterday!

Weird question for you. As you mentioned, most of the original Chinese immigrants were from the more southerly parts of China. Where, I assume, rice is the main grain. Is/are there wheat or sorghum based cuisines in Northern China/Manchuria?

In fact, there is the great rice/noodle divide in China. Southerners tend to favor rice, as the climate and terrain favor its cultivation, while northerners tend to prefer wheat noodles, since wheat grows better in the colder latitudes than rice. Noodles are also made from rice, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, but wheat noodles are most common. Sorghum, AFAIK, only enters cuisine as one foundation for baijiu (Chinese firewater), and not as a grain. At least, I have never eaten anything here made from sorghum.

OTOH, I did have sorghum syrup when I lived in western Kentucky. It’s a bit like molasses.