Chinese food - what do you like?

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I'm into steamed dumplings (vegetable or chicken). used to love General Tso's chicken but got seriously burned out on it. Has anyone ever had King Pao chicken? What is it like? i wanna try it but don't wanna waste money. It looked delicious on Seinfeld.

Who likes noodles? Who likes shrimp fried rice? these are good indicators of a person't personality (not really but I'm curious)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i like noodles

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

There is a place that out here that serves run-of-the-mill Chinese except for a dish that is shrimp and walnuts in a honey butter glaze that is amazing.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

my favourite chinese food right now is at this northern chinese place here in town called niu kee, my review of it is here:

http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2003/111303/resto.html

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone know the difference between Cantonese style, Hunan style, and Szechuan style?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Tiger style, Crane style ... etc.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, I bought some szechuan sauce in a jar one time and it made everything taste fucking awesome. Thanks for reminding me mr. adultery. I might go buy some more today.

― E.S.P (ipsofacto), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

is that like buying "italian" sauce?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

FORTUNE COOKIES

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmm lemon chicken.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i enjoy steamed dumplings as well. i'm not so big on kung pao chicken; it's usually got lots of celery and other weird vegetables, and i'm afeared of green things. i like szechuan pork w/ string beans a lot, as well as sesame chicken.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i was talking to my friend about this today. chinese is the worst, least sophisticated food we could think of. Doesn't mean it doesn't taste good. Except in this case, it does.

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

that's just wrong. have you only had sweet and sour slop from storefront takeaways?

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 26 June 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"worst, least sophisticated"

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 26 June 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

chinese is the worst, least sophisticated food we could think of

the Americans are so unsophisticated with their terrible hamburgers and hot dogs

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 26 June 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

you know where you can shove your hamburger? :)

I kinda think Tex Mex, as much as I love it, is way less sophisticated. I've been to some FANCY chinese places.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 26 June 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

my favorite chinese food is hong kong style: pan-fried noodles, dim sum, seafood (hoi sin), porridge, hot pot... with a cup of steaming hot milk tea.

there are many different types of chinese cooking styles, off the top of my head:

cantonese
hunan
nan king
shanghai
peking
szechuan
taiwanese

i'm sure if you type a few of these into google you could find a good breakdown on the variations between the many regions.

i definitely prefer the authentic places (ie, i'm the only gwai lo in the place), but every once in a while I'll try some fusion or watered down american style place.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 26 June 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

steamed dumplings, yes. i always try to try other things but i adore fast food steamed dumplings.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

dim sum OPO

Milk Tea - Classic or Dud?

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like real Chinese food. Too many vegetables, too many sauces, just not my thing. Fast-food/American chinese food is even worse - greasy, oily sweet&sour chicken, etc.

Plain steamed rice is beyond classic, though.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

gwai lo = gaijin?

Crap Americanized Chinese food is teh suck, but occasionally I get cravings for the grease and MSG. My favorite more-or-less Chinese dish is Singapore rice noodles.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

crab rangoons might be the greatest food ever created

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I could eat left-over shrimp fried rice for breakfast every day of the year, except for Christmas. That's for cold pizza.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Love Chinese food YUMMY! Chopsuey, Chicken Fried rice, Spare ribs ,Chowmein egg rolls.

― Gale ([email protected]), Sunday, 27 June 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Crab Rangoon? Egg rolls? This is starting to resemble a conversion about jazz where people just reference Kenny G and Al Jarreau.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Sunday, 27 June 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

any eggplant dish prepared by a chinese restaurant usually rocks kashmir

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

my school can't make decent white rice :( it's always either undercooked or a bit soggy. horrible.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Kung Pow Chicken is diced with cashews and celery... it's one of the Chinese "risk" foods like Sesame Chicken or Orange Beef, and not one of the "safe bets" like whatever and garlic sauce or Singapore Mei Fun. If the place has bullet-proof glass and fried chicken, be careful.

― hexxy, Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I will eat anywhere with bullet proof glass. Safety first!

One of the places nearby makes a really good salmon & ginger dish. So I recommend that, if you are ever here.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 28 June 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I always get vegetable lo mein, it's kind of guilty-pleasure greasy junk food. What are other good vegetarian chinese options?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 June 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

general tso's tofu, if done well!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 28 June 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Theres a wonderful Chinese restaurant in Melbourne called Davids, run by a couple who also run a specialist Chinese medicinal tea store up the road. So along with the meals, which are all listed according to which of the humours they fire up in the body (the hot, sweet, sour, salty chi energy idea) it has all these amazing teas to go with it. Very very good.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 28 June 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.visitvictoria.com/displayObject.cfm/objectid.F67E0F47-08F4-4707-BCE33B99857E8067/vvt.vhtml

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 28 June 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Fried Chilli Beef rules SOOOO hard. It's only 8:35am, and I'm already lusting after a Chinese.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 28 June 2004 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dim Sum

And another vote for fried chilli beef

― Ed (dali), Monday, 28 June 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Chinese is the worst, least sophisticated cuisine? HAH.

search: Turnip cake (a dim sum); Choi Sum in oyster sauce; Lotus root soup; Fried Dough Cheung Fun; Century Egg and Lean Pork Congee; Char Siu pastry; Stewed Sea Cucumber; Drunken Chicken; Hainanese Chicken Rice.

― may, Monday, 28 June 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

May I also laugh at paulhw?

Anyway, in no particular order:

Szechaun Pepper & Five Spice Roasted Pork Belly (ultra yum, recipe given on request)
Stir Fried Pak Choy
Deep Fried Salt and Pepper Squid
Steamed Rice
Noodle Broths
Peking Crispy Duck with Pancakes
Egg Fried Rice
Mongolian Minced Lamb with Lettuce
Toffee Apples

Lunch anyone?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Century Egg and Lean Pork Congee

PHWOAR. I love congee soooo much, it's the best comfort food ever. Also, ho fun roll dim sum things: lovely and slimy and full of tasty things. As part of (restaurant) dinner on Saturday we had king prawns fried in the most lovely garlicky chilli sauce with little crunchy bits of celery in it. Also the egg fried rice had more prawns in it. I'm going back to that place and soon.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the simple things - chinese brocoli in oyster sauce. MmmmMmm.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Deep fried salt and chilli squid, but I've had too many inferior versions, and the one place in Chinatown (in London) that made them just perfect (Mr. Cam) has closed down. Sob.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ORANGE POPCORN SHRIMP

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

also bubble drinks!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

cha sui bao rock the houses i can eat this at any time of day and as much of it as you can put in front of me. as does pork belly stewed in black bean sauce with preserved vegetables, as does nan king pork with green beans (house of nan king in san francisco does this and a fucking spectacular vegetarian variant with sweet potatoes instead of pork). for making at home, beef, tomatoes, green beans and green peppers in oyster sauce with steamed rice (got me a rice cooker so i eat rice every day) or squid in sweet chilli. anyone who says chinese food is unsophisticated is a fucking idiot. i have just has saveloy and chips for lunch so am going for certain strands of english food fulfilling these characteristics. still bloody good, too.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

may writes:
search: Century Egg

:-X

there is a thread in the archives that details my displeasure for this particular dish (aka "hundred year old egg").

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

awwww. i love those, especially in congee or wrapped in pastry.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yah, century egg has a rather strong flavour, but with plain or pork congee tastes very yummy.

Liz, which restaurant was that?

there's this new restaurant in chinatown (london) called Cafe de Hong Kong, which is my new favourite for an authentic Hong Kong fast food experience. they have these totally MSGd western-type food (spaghetti/steaks etc) but done in a HK way, plus it's the only place in london with nice bubble drinks. it's nearly always packed with HK kids.

― may, Monday, 28 June 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

there was a place in nyc's chinatown called steak specialist that only served hk style western food. it didn't last very long.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

dim sum
scallion pancakes

― j suddeth, Monday, 28 June 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I like cheap ghetto-ass American Chinese-food buffets. You can usually tell exactly how cheap and ghetto-ass they are by the name. Like, on a hungover Sunday afternoon, given a choice between like Grand Imperial Szechuan Garden and #1 China Buffet, I'm going for #1.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I know exactly what you mean! There are a few of these in SF... S&E on 19th/Taraval is the first that comes to mind. Much more popular after 1am than before.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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The best crab rangoons I ever had were from a Thai place down the street from my house - dominant flavor in filling is crab meat and scallions over curdledy cream cheese, dough crispy but not oily, god my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

This girl taught me this dish she called "warrior chicken" where you boil a chicken, then use the chicken water to make rice, and the sauce is like garlic and scallions shredded in this weird longwise fashion, she claimed it was some traditional Chinese dish (she is Korean), I know nothing about it other than how to make it though. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

the toad skin is an american tradition tho

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I can't say enough: if you ever want Chinese food in Grand Rapids, MI, go to a place called First Wok out by the airport. It's in a strip mall, yes, but the dining room is big and relatively nice (if not in the best taste, perhaps), and the menu will look like the usual Americanized fare, but each dish is a shining example of its kind. I swear! Their "sizzling rice soup" has bamboo shoots and baby corn and actual shrimp and mushrooms, the crab rangoons have no competition. The entrees seem less remarkable in my mind but truly I never had a "dud" there, and after all the really, really bad stuff I've had in NYC...ugh.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

"warrior chicken"

that sounds like a variation on hainanese chicken rice, which is chinese/singaporean (i think) and often found at malaysian restaurants.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

There's a place here that does a great bitter melon tofu in black bean sauce.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

there's a place in Sherman Oaks, near L.A., that has the best crab rangoons i've ever had. bamboo village is the name of the restaurant, for you curious angelenos.

― gear (gear), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

and they look exactly like the ones in the photo laurel posted.

― gear (gear), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

i have been deeply enjoying hot and sour soup lately.

there are several desi style chinese restaurants in vancouver. not sure if they've been adressed yet here; it's a fantastic north indian/mongolian cuisine. the best pakoras i've had!

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

that crab rangoon photo gave me a boner

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

toad skin and all

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

: x

― gear (gear), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

hot pepper chicken i mean DAMN

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

I found a Chinese restaurant in Kenya that has excellent mapo dofu!!!!!!

― circular firing squad (lukas), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

XLB

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

so uh I dunno how many ILXors are in the Philly area but me and my family just found this really amazing & authentic sichuan restaurant:

http://njyangzi.com/

they're located in a really shitty area though & have high prices in the outback steakhouse etc. range but are definitely worth it. I dunno if they pull the whole "chinese food for chinese people, american chinese food for americans" thing so you should maybe try to tell them that you want the Real Deal but man oh man this place is awesome.

they're not doing so well so thought I'd put a word out for them, I've talked to the owners and they are from Sichuan and they are really nice people and it would be a shame if they went out of business.

― dyao, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 00:15 (fifteen years ago)

I mean look at that bowl of water cooked fish on the frontpage!!

http://pic.ahradio.com.cn/0/00/04/04/40453_278465.jpg

this isn't the 蒜泥白肉 from the restaurant it's a picture I found on the internet but it's pretty close to what you would get if you ordered 蒜泥白肉 from them LOOK AT ALL THAT SPICY GARLIC

― dyao, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 00:18 (fifteen years ago)

that is like whoa

this is my favorite thing to order from the joint near me: sichuan cold noodles
http://static.flickr.com/48/162189227_f1e72ab8d0_o.jpg

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 01:18 (fifteen years ago)

you can tell that those are some house-made, fresh n toothsome noodles

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 01:20 (fifteen years ago)

what's the name of that jellyfish dish that usually comes in the first several courses of a wedding buffet?

i've been getting some absurd cravings for it lately, there's this place in berkeley that's known for it. can't remember the name of it though.

halp.

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 01:27 (fifteen years ago)

Are you supposed to eat the broth in the water cooked fish or not? There's a place here that makes it and the broth is like pure oil.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:07 (fifteen years ago)

post a pic SS? this one?

http://food.tank.tw/userfiles/image/SeaFood/chili_seaSkin.jpg

― dyao, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

eephus - nope! it's supposed to be all oil. it's not really a broth.

― dyao, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

yup!!! sometimes has beef or pork?

*cravings*

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:32 (fifteen years ago)

the chinese name is 海蜇皮 which means, uh, jelly fish skin

― dyao, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:41 (fifteen years ago)

eephus - nope! it's supposed to be all oil. it's not really a broth.

So you DON'T eat it, right?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:32 (fifteen years ago)

dont think so, you would be crazy to

― dyao, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:38 (fifteen years ago)

dyao, thank you for 4am droolz.

― stoic newington (suzy), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:42 (fifteen years ago)

thanks dyao!

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 04:11 (fifteen years ago)

gotta get my ass to chinatown this week, tbrr.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 04:18 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks, dyao, I left a bowl full of oil and was wondering whether everybody in the restaurant was like "why didn't that guy finish his dinner?"

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:22 (fifteen years ago)

I went to my old college town the other week and did NOT have time to go to Best Americanized Chinese Restaurant Ever for their specialty crab rangoons. ;_;

― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

always heard that you werent meant to eat the oil

― just sayin, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:32 (fifteen years ago)

<3 good chinese food so much

― just sayin, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:32 (fifteen years ago)

I took some pics when I went last week

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4887027714_d8d4225155_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4887027586_2bfd9af8b0_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/4887027438_5214ef2057_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4887027276_48bab4246e_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4887027014_9fb72a2b10.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4101/4887026716_4829f70a6f_z.jpg

― dyao, Friday, 13 August 2010 01:53 (fifteen years ago)

oh fuck you!!!!!!!

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 04:40 (fifteen years ago)

Is anyone else madly in love with those $0.75/ea sesame pancakes you can get on Eldridge St. in Chinatown NYC (and seemingly nowhere else)? Because they are sort of my life right now.

― En Moog (Stevie D), Friday, 13 August 2010 04:51 (fifteen years ago)

Just found a place that serves a patty of egg foo yong on top of a burger, super authentic and delicious.

― Ryan, Friday, 13 August 2010 05:20 (fifteen years ago)

daaaaaaamn that looks good

― just sayin, Friday, 13 August 2010 11:32 (fifteen years ago)

srsly dyao that is some perfect lookin food

― "It's far from 'loi' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 13 August 2010 11:37 (fifteen years ago)

That looks delicious!

Most Americanized Chinese food is so awful that it's sort of put me off eating Chinese for a while now. Bad cockroach experience in NYC chinatown also doesn't help the way I feel about it in general. The place SS sent the Boston ILX group was great though - will definitely go back there.

My favorite crappy but oh so good "Chinese" food dish I can only get in England. Noodles and chips with curry sauce. OMG. WANT SOME NOW.

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 13 August 2010 11:46 (fifteen years ago)

thanks dudes! don't mean to be That Guy who takes pictures of everything he eats but I want to get the word out that there's this really good chinese restaurant in south jersey and I'd be super bummed to see them close down.

― dyao, Friday, 13 August 2010 12:25 (fifteen years ago)

Very nice dyao. I took this thread with me to read when I went to get lunch but accidentally left your photos on the printer and found them dumped at the top of the 'unclaimed work' pile when I got back, so word is out round these parts too.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 13 August 2010 12:30 (fifteen years ago)

The place SS sent the Boston ILX group was great though - will definitely go back there.

haha i was back there last weekend (super wasted at 3 am)

― call all destroyer, Friday, 13 August 2010 12:51 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_as-ohrkE

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/11/wcco_dog_meat_chinatown_market_story_new_york_post.php

― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 12:59 (fourteen years ago)

six years pass...

my favourite youtubers chronicling their lives in east asia are probably serpentza and laowhy86 and i always forget to post their stuff on here

they have a joint channel and now they're looking for the best chinese food in the usa (hint: they're all on the west coast)

first episode: great wow in san diego for jiaozi and baozi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFAejbtB5W0

looks like it'll be a great series

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 18 February 2018 21:19 (eight years ago)

episode 2 (3 is also up)

still in southern california!

shancheng lameizi in rowland heights and a tiny bit of history on the chinese hot pot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYOW-2eg2k

also lamb fetussss

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:37 (eight years ago)

peking duck in rowland heights! (los angeles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUjQSPgkwLA

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:59 (eight years ago)

six years pass...

Love this account

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTa_T2pVwuk

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 23 November 2024 12:06 (one year ago)

My favorite food youtube channel. It’s my only patreon donation.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 23 November 2024 16:12 (one year ago)

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