jennyalison:

After reading verbadjectivenoun’s reblog I decided to Wikipedia my favorite chinese treat. 

Crab rangoon is an essential appetizer in American Chinese cuisine of North America. Like the fortune cookie and other American Chinese dishes, it is sometimes believed to be an authentic Chinese dish when in fact it was developed in the United States. Though the history of crab rangoon is misty, cream cheese is not a widely used ingredient in China. In fact, few Chinese recipes if any use cheese as an ingredient.

So you are telling me all along I have been eating something created in the US and I had no idea! I guess I wouldn’t find these little fried balls of goodness in China after all. 

You can pretty much just bet on the fact that any Chinese food with a dairy product in it is American made, and American eaten. Go Lactose Intolerance!