Hi pluiepoco( and I'll refrain from typing han zi ),
In fact what you call "gourmet" food is plainly daily food, except it's eaten by foreign people, thus having an exotic and supposedly sophisticated flavor.
Indian food (northern, southern,eastern) is quite varied as is Chinese food
(bei, nan, tong ? OK ?) and the general people use a lot of chicken and jidan too, sliced or cut into small bits AND a variety of sauces which allow to prepare different recipes with the same meat just as you Chinese do. And they have bread too (Nan, chappati, puri) but not this dai bao paste of yours for steamed ravioli (stolen from you by Marco Polo).
Beef they don't eat (sacred cows), lamb is expensive, but fish is plenty on the coasts.
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