Chinese Takeaway – It’s a Local Thing
Fast food has been with us for as long as we’ve been eating. It’s a fundamental service societies provide to the poorer classes who are often unable to prepare food for themselves.
One of the most important aspects of street food of this style is that it has to be fresh fresh fresh. No street vendor is ever going to stay in business by poisoning their customers. In the good old, bad old days there was no such thing as refrigeration so how did they do it? Simple really, street food, fast food, call it what you will was always based on locally available produce. Keep it fresh by keeping it local.
Think about the food you associate with London, in particular the east end, jellied eels. Eels were in plentiful supply in the River Thames and provided generations with locally supplied good fresh food until the arrival of the Chinese Takeaway.
