thread of pictures of real chinese food

oh man this is helping! I'm sure the air will still be awful but in Xi'an I'd be with locals + Westerners who speak the language / study the culture & go there often. mostly I'm wimpy about making my way in the big cities in the east, but prob I should just do it.

dayo, are your folks not from TW? It's like a staple there.

― Nude Gingrich (Leee), Sunday, March 11, 2012 3:31 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark

nah they are from peking!

i'm sure you'll still find the air obscenely bad.

in the last 10 years, traffic has only got worse + crazy sprawl + it'll be hot and humid and the air will be like parking your car in a sauna and rolling down the windows.

xi'an is not a beautiful city.

http://www.binglang.info/Storage/FCKPro/Files/%E5%87%89%E7%9A%AE%281%29.jpg

wtf is this why don't I have some

tripe?

wheat gluten iirc

it looks spicy and delicious

the broad strips are some kind of 凉粉 I imagine

the brainy looking stuff is 烤麸 I think, a kind of wheat gluten

http://i.imgur.com/So3jq.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pl9J8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1XDE5.jpg

its liangpir 凉皮儿 dude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_pi

wheat flour, baking soda, salt + water -- mix into a paste -- put in cheesecloth and steam -- slice it up into those noodle things -- mix with black vinegar, sesame sauce, chili oil etc

liangpir specialty places in the middle of summer are full of broads. it's fucking good. i love it ice cold and spicy/sour/salty/sweet.

http://www.lovemshi.net/UploadFiles/2010-04/admin/2010041816312252411.jpg

ate this tonight braised spicy duck headsssss

i like this thread and wanted to ask about like... what sites are good for these kind of recipes? there's a really friendly and cool chinese supermarket near me now and i would like to make use of it a bit more - any general recommendation of stuff I should look out for would be really good. i've been experimenting with this and that but of course there lots of things stocked that i've no real idea about what they are.

christ this thread is making me hungry

hey LG i've found this blog pretty good - http://sunflower-recipes.blogspot.com/

ah cool, thanks a lot.

as a vegetarian i enjoy how the terrifying entrail looking things in this thread are always wheat gluten, and how the completely anonymous things are calcified blood or kidney mash or pancreas cakes

dayo this is a delicious thread thank u

^_^

one time i went to dim sum and ate like five rectangular patties (about 1/2" thick each) of what i thought was tofu before my friends informed me it was like long-stewed skin of some sort ... don't remember if it was pig or shark or cow or what

does that sound right?

or were they jerking me around?

hooray, that blog looks interesting and has a recipe for 魚香肉絲 which is pictured upthread and which various Chinese restaurants round here call "sea spicy shredded pork" - suspect the local variety is not very authentic but we like it, anyway

http://sunflower-recipes.blogspot.com/2008/09/fish-fragrant-pork.html

from its name I thought it had fish sauce in but it seems not?

one time i went to dim sum and ate like five rectangular patties (about 1/2" thick each) of what i thought was tofu before my friends informed me it was like long-stewed skin of some sort ... don't remember if it was pig or shark or cow or what

does that sound right?

― the late great, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:08 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

description makes me think of radish cakes

http://i.imgur.com/O3tCh.jpg

but there is also 'tofu skin'

http://i.imgur.com/xt4vd.jpg

could also be a tofu skin roll

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

i think the fuschia dunlop books are good if u want to cook the food from this thread mostly because even if they are based on hunan/sichuan etc. they discuss crucial cooking methods at length and give you a good idea of how "real chinese food" can be reproduced.

yeah sounds like radish cake, man

http://static0.enjoyoung.cn/images/assets/Image/articles%20photo/20100224%E7%8C%AA%E7%9A%AE.jpg = pork skin

http://image4.club.sohu.com/pic/3a/a3/5be83a57eb26682929d3bf45e5b4a33a.jpg

http://www.techan-cn.com/uploads/allimg/110725/163025N58-0.jpg

anything like that?

yeah they looked just like the first "radish cake" picture that dayo posted, not so much like the others

it was rubbery and chewy iirc

Shanghai rice cake is sometimes my favorite food:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/157652886_5a5a98105c.jpg

especially because it doesn't look or taste anything like either rice or cake.

my friends really had me going - you're telling me i wasn't eating a thick skin steak, right?

hooray, that blog looks interesting and has a recipe for 魚香肉絲 which is pictured upthread and which various Chinese restaurants round here call "sea spicy shredded pork" - suspect the local variety is not very authentic but we like it, anyway

http://sunflower-recipes.blogspot.com/2008/09/fish-fragrant-pork.html

from its name I thought it had fish sauce in but it seems not?

― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc in fuschia dunlops book she talks about this, its to do w/ the recipe using the same flavourings they usually use to cook fish

I've never had it, but that Shanghai rice cake looks A+. You had me at gai lan.

http://www.glulu.com/UploadFile/%E9%9F%A9%E5%BC%8F%E7%82%92%E5%B9%B4%E7%B3%95500x375--175445449.jpg

韩式炒年糕

韩式 okay but on the menu at every restaurant north from the tip of the liaodong peninsula to the songliao plains.

精彩不容错过，eh？let's see if womanfriend.com lets me link to it

http://www.womanfriend.com/happy/UploadFiles_2413/200812/20081205085103329.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tteokbokki

one time i went to dim sum and ate like five rectangular patties (about 1/2" thick each) of what i thought was tofu before my friends informed me it was like long-stewed skin of some sort ... don't remember if it was pig or shark or cow or what
does that sound right?
― the late great, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:08 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

not these i take it..
http://a3.att.hudong.com/68/61/01300000280411123780612007947_s.jpg
(pig skin)

not sure why radish cake would be rubbery..

or there are these things
http://img.dwnews.com/houtai/201005/2010052701402690659920.jpg

豬皮凍
which i have never tasted.

^ i assume the above is served cold.. hence "凍"

or pigs blood
http://http.cdnlayer.com/smoola/00/00/47/70752eead50a568a_m.jpg

^ f-ing tasty (and apparently good for you)

猪皮冻 is like..... pigskin + other stuff in the gelatin from the pig skin, right?

http://fjbak.86516.com/month_0708/20070807_8829271a803cf3223b77MiZ8gEOINzbE.jpg

蛙鱼儿

“蛙鱼儿”，江苏应该很多城市都有。只是，我只喜欢徐州的。起初，我并未听过如此的小吃。当朋友说带我去吃“蛙鱼儿”时，以为是一种鱼。当吃的时候才发现，就是用凉粉做的，一小点儿，一小点儿。放入盘中，加点醋，放点糖，再加上一些咸菜，最好再放进冰箱稍加冰冻，一盘可口的“蛙鱼儿”，就“出炉”了。轻轻喝上一口，凉爽入心。午饭或晚饭前喝上一碗，着实给炎热的夏天带去一丝凉意。

“蛙鱼儿”，江苏应该很多城市都有。只是，我只喜欢徐州的。起初，我并未听过如此的小吃。当朋友说带我去吃“蛙鱼儿”时，以为是一种鱼。当吃的时候才发现，就是用凉粉做的，一小点儿，一小点儿。放入盘中，加点醋，放点糖，再加上一些咸菜，最好再放进冰箱稍加冰冻，一盘可口的“蛙鱼儿”，就“出炉”了。轻轻喝上一口，凉爽入心。午饭或晚饭前喝上一碗，着实给炎热的夏天带去一丝凉意。

sorry chinese characters + italics are hard on the eyes

http://a3.att.hudong.com/68/61/01300000280411123780612007947_s.jpg

oh yeah, that's pretty much exactly what it looked like except it was in a shallow, broad rectangular pan, one layer thick, and w/ a sauce the same color as the stuff

that is thick pieces of stewed pig skin? guess my friend wasn't lying.

I hope I'm not being culturally insensitive, Asian food is yummy and nutritious. I like all of the vegetables in it. But many of the pictures show food that is not attractive in its presentation.

I went to a "real" Chinese restaurant once to have a real Chinese meal...and I was surprised at how few vegetarian items they had! Back to Charlie Chu's or whatever, steaming plate of veggies is fine, whether it's "authentic" or not.

i'm with you, a lot of this stuff looks pretty nasty to me

then again, i grew up eating and loving food that looked dirt, mud and poop, so i'm not one to judge