Why do people pay so much attention and respect to 'authentic' food ?

If something has been improved and made more popular by someone else, then it must be more or less justified, and the store owner isn't too far gone to have a problem with his business.

Take Lanzhou ramen for example. The most authentic Lanzhou ramen is made with grass and wood ash, which is made from burnt grass and firewood. It makes the noodles tough, but in a more sophisticated region, people don't like it, so what can you do?

I'm from Shanghai, Shanghai has a local forum called Broadband Hill, which is full of "raw fry is a small Yang's good or a big pot spring of good" a variety of debates, the emerging small Yang's raw fry is depreciated worthless, and then I really went to the authentic big pot spring, a door is a few years ago, the state-run atmosphere, raw fry end to the greasy table when the long time. When I got to the greasy table, it was half cold, so I ate one and stood up and left.

And then there is the Shanghai steamed buns, Hong Kong and Taiwan's best steamed buns are crowned with the name of Shanghai. But a lot of people who grew up in Taipei used to eat "Shanghai Xiaolong" to Shanghai to find the authentic goods, eat also feel that it is just so, or Taipei Din Tai Fung's good, which is not surprising. Din Tai Fung in order to make Xiao Long become more healthy, very early with edible gelatin instead of Shanghai people use pig skin jelly, Shanghai people eat up the flavor of the taste of the three bland, but you can say that people do not have a reason?

Generally speaking, no matter where the snacks originated, after a period of time, the spread of the inevitable transfer to economically developed areas. Those who always want to go to the birthplace to find "authentic" friends are likely to face the disappointment again and again, in fact, maybe the real "authentic" instead of in the tourists' own city.