I eat quite a bit of Chinese food-szechuan, cantonese, singapore, fujian, etc., but I can never recall eating any kind of potato dish in a chinese restuarant. So, do the Chinese eat them? If so, how are they prepared?
china is a big country with wide variation.
most standard is chopped into fine slivers and stirfried with green peppers. i’ve had hashbrowns, chunks in soup, stir fried in chunks with a curry powder (for dinner last night), sliced and fried, filler in spring rolls & potstickers, a main ingredient in buddhist vegetarian cooking (especially the veggie ‘fish’)
in areas of sichuan & tibet where potatoes are a staple. baked or boiled & served with butter, pounded into a paste & boiled as a dumpling.
I’ve had potatoes plenty of times in China.
They have many ways to prepare them, but they are often cut up, fried, and mixed into other dishes.