On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 2:32:23 PM UTC+10, Travis McGee wrote:
> I made Mongolian beef tonight, and it came out great. I have several
> Chinese cookbooks, but none of them had a recipe for this dish, I
> suspect because it's "American Chinese", and not an "authentic" recipe.

A friend of mine was in a group hosting some visitors from Mongolia. They took them out for dinner, to a Chinese restaurant. The visitors saw "Mongolian lamb" on the menu, and one ordered it, just to see what it was. When it came, "Ah! This is what we call 'Cantonese lamb'."