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My wife is native Chinese and has been in the US for three years. She only cooks Chinese - Chinese food. She uses potatoes a lot. If we cook American it is me that cooks that. I lived in Mainland China for 4 years. Potatoes are a big part of the Northern diet. You can not grow rice in the snow, so northern China uses potatoes just like in the good old US. South - rice, North - potatoes.

A nice simple true Chinese dish to cook is tomato and shredded potato. You hand cut a potato Long ways into thin slivers and cook in a very little bit peanut oil until tender then add diced tomatoes and cook a little while longer...finished. Can't get healther than that. Oh, by the way. If you see beef in a Chinese dish it is either Americanized or a recent addition. They just plain don't eat beef. It takes too much land to raise either with grazing or growing grain to feed the cows. The closest they get to beef is donkey, again in the north. By the way it is good. Chinese as a rule don't eat a lot of meat.