Beef Stroganoff are considered the traditional side dish for beef Stroganoff in Russia. The version given in the 1938 "Larousse Gastronomique" includes beef "strips", and onions, with either mustard or tomato paste optional. After the fall of Tsarist Russia, the recipe was popularly served in the hotels and restaurants of China before the start of World War II. Russian and Chinese immigrants, as well as US servicemen stationed in pre-Communist China, brought several variants of the dish to the United States, which may account for its popularity during the 1950s. It came to Hong Kong in the late fifties, with Russian restaurants
Chartreuse (dish) and is called chartreuse of partridge. It was the non-meat diet of the monastic order of Carthusians that had been founded at Chartreuse that gave the dish its name as, originally, it was made just with vegetables. Chartreuse (dish) A chartreuse is a French dish comprising meat or vegetables that are wrapped tightly in a decorative layer of salad or vegetable leaves of different colours and cooked within a dome mould. Variations of the dish have been in existence since at least the eighteenth century. The appearance of the chartreuse may be varied according to the way in which the