My partner just made some fried rice with leftover potato chunks and mapo sauce and holy shit this is so good. We’ve also made di san xian a couple times and a veganized lychee pork and every time the potatoes have been fantastic, that gooey starchy surface cooked potatoes get is such a powerful sauce sponge. white people love potatoes, i don’t get why the standard western Chinese takeout menu didn’t seem to adapt any potato dishes
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For what it’s worth, spice bags use potatoes and they are super popular in Ireland.
I think it’s because rice/noodles make more sense for restaurant use (shelf stable) and would have a higher margin because they’re non-perishable.
I could imagine (and this is really just kinda silly conjecture on my part) some anti-Irish sentiment would be in play too? Not on the part of the restaurants themselves but their customers.