Pate chinois is a traditional Quebec dish of three baked layers, ground beef, corn and mashed potato, in that order, often sprinkled with paprika and served with pickles or ketchup; in Canada we have verified places to eat it in Montreal. Start with where to eat Pate chinois in Montreal.
Pate chinois · Montreal
Pate chinois is a traditional Quebec dish of three baked layers, ground beef, corn and mashed potato, in that order, often sprinkled with paprika and served with pickles or ketchup.
Research by food historian Jean-Pierre Lemasson and linguist Gabriel Martin shows that pate chinois began among the French-Canadian working class in Montreal in the 1910s and spread during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The story of Chinese railway labourers is not supported by that research. After a poll by Le Devoir it was informally called the national dish of Quebec.
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