thread of pictures of real chinese food

here is another way of making noodles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbmgZZ8DjsA

man, vancouver is 90% chinese but the food will never live up to the shittiest mainland china backwater, i think. just... i dunno. i'll say this: really good high end cantonese food. enjoy the king crab and catch a glimpse of fugitive lai changxing (note: no longer possible).

lately i've been eating for dinner: century egg + large fries from mcdonalds... mix with a bit of black vinegar and dark soy sauce....

anyways

http://pylon.xiangoo.com/step/photo/5/8/KYBvkMxOQDtC_m.jpg

there's something so satisfying about the visual of dude pulling the noodles apart

my mom makes that all the time mh! the 'preserved mustard' or w/e it is gives it a very distinct flavor. it's great

i'll say this: really good high end cantonese food.

otm, I had dinner at a 5 star hotel's cantonese restaurant and it was like

THAT IS 把子肉 BAZIROU

YOU HAVE A GIANT CAULDRON OF STUFF (LIKE ABOVE) STEWING IN A POT ALL DAY AND YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT IN YOUR BOWL BY POINTING
THE BAZIROU IS THE ACTUAL STEWED PORK BELLY BUT IT INCLUDES EVERYTHING. EATEN WITH A BOWL OF WHITE RICE. AND EVERY PLACE HAS FREE FILL YOUR OWN RICE RUNOFF 米汁 THE STARCHY STEAMING WATER FROM COOKING RICE. OH MY GOD. HOMETOWN:　ＮＯＲＴＨＥＲＮ　ＪＩＡＮＧＳＵ．

I would be so fat if I lived in china

I look at american food and it's just so sad

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/2356eefb.gif

http://i.imgur.com/olSLM.jpg

卤肉

http://pica.nipic.com/2008-02-29/2008229101143338_2.jpg

粉蒸肉 MEAT STEAMED WITH GROUND UP RICE MASHED ALL OVER IT. GOD. THIS IS AMAZING.

http://i.imgur.com/NvJip.jpg

牛肉面

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3252/2700015194_a9b1ebe06a.jpg

蟹炒年糕

i want to fuck my face with all of these

http://www.168food.com.cn/pictures/images/20090830194117691.jpg

鸭血粉丝 duckblood fensi

http://i.imgur.com/qwEhY.jpg

I posted this before but it's so good. the green things are 蒜薹, which means garlic shoots, and you absolutely cannot get this in the US because they don't sell garlic shoots in the supermarket!

vancouver is cool in that you can get stuff like that. "garlic bolts" is usually the translation.

http://www.ttmeishi.com/Images/CaiPu_Upload/2008-7/20080727102723273.jpg

凉拌猪肚

this is a favorite

ok two more k-classic dishes that everybody in china knows how to make and then I'm done for today

http://i.imgur.com/aAfwx.png

http://i.imgur.com/BVz85.jpg

鱼香肉丝

http://i.imgur.com/7zLB7.jpg

宫保鸡丁

you may be more familiar with the second one as 'kung pao chicken' here is a lol american version

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/5282457865_123c95eac4_z.jpg

lol america *smh*

if only china wasn't being run by a brutal autocracy

http://i52.tinypic.com/mhzp1y.jpg

http://www.eat4.com/upimg/110312/1_013014_1.jpg

蚕豆炒莴笋

my saliva glands hurt

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莴笋 is another example of a chinese vegetable that is very hard or impossible to find in the states. my parents tried very hard to grow some last year and were only able to harvest enough for half a meal. : (

it's available in vancouver... locally grown, too, as i understand it. there's a hunan restaurant here that has a dish of 炒 eel, bacon (super smoky eerie white hunan bacon) and wosun.

sounds like I should move to vancouver

richmond is like china if all the poor people were gone

rip chinas poor people

hey, let's not end on a bummer

Let's go west for Baked Bun Soaked in Mutton Soup:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/3121995269_7995caf5e2.jpg

The white doughy pieces are actually torn up bits of these pancakes/buns:
http://www.tourschina.com/travel-xian/images/food/yangroupaomo1.jpg

When you're served this, they come intact like that picture, and you're supposed to break them up and toss them into the stew.

thanks.

i truly hate you for this thread, dayo

coming out of retirement because reading about chinese bacon made me crave this

http://i.imgur.com/ycCgP.jpg

腊肉

if you think chinese food is salty you haven't tried this!!

lol horseshoe you won't after watching this

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzAwMzI0MzI0.html

but yeah dylannnnnnnnnnnnnnn is otm when he says

man, vancouver is 90% chinese but the food will never live up to the shittiest mainland china backwater, i think.

and this is why NYC can never have great chinese food. even in flushing. THE END.

http://jingtheory.com/blog/2010/11/taste-of-chengdu/

http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2010/10/chengdu-dou-hua-flower-beancurd-street-food.html and http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2010/12/what-mr-zhang-taught-me.html

greatest country in the world

LOOK at that

think I told this story before on ILX but the spiciest, hottest food I ever had was in chengdu - some 特辣 chicken wings that had me on a vision quest, for reals. and normally I don't back down from spicy food. I think they used a ghost pepper or the chinese equivalent.

I remember sweating profusely, my vision getting dizzy, stumbling across a city square during a very cold winter day with a starbucks frappuchino in one hand, a bottle of water in the other, double fisting. took about 20 minutes for the spiciness to wear off. jesus.

that blog post about chengdu is otm though - as china's people get wealthier the food is getting shittier. I had more disappointments in my most recent trip to beijing (this past winter) than I did in all the previous times I had been back. china should look to hong kong as a warning to what happens when your city gets overrun with franchises.

otoh taiwan is still great and they are pretty rich! taiwan has the best street food in the world.

in fact taiwan may have the highest concentration of great chinese food in all of the world. love taiwan.

I mean, I get it! when you become middle class you don't have time to worry about food. you are staring at a computer screen all day. and you can actually afford a house and to create a good environment for your kid to live in. but it still makes me sad, a little bit. china makes me sad, sometimes. godspeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Um_rXMBXAs

good intro to xiao long bao making skills at 3:38

chef dude is a DUDE

http://bestvacationdealstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Hong-Kong-Night-Street-Snacks.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/98seg.jpg