thread of pictures of real chinese food

dylannn, what are those three delicious-looking dishes?

炒空心菜 stirfried kongxin cai (semiaquatic, tropical plant grown as a leaf vegetable)
凉拌莴笋丝 cold salad of wosun strips (cultivar of lettuce grown primarily for its thick stem, used as a vegetable)
芝麻酱拌生菜 sesame sauce and lettuce

this is one of my favorite threads

http://www.palacechinese.com.au/images/big/b_Chicken_Feet.JPG

fried hands of small children o_O

the realest shit i ever ate

http://www.3qhouse.com/blog/attachment/201107/16/15301_1310807666IDr2.jpg

in dongbei there's this great thing i was reminded of by that picture of lettuce and sesame sauce

when i lived in vancouver, i lived in one room of a vancouver special on no. 2 road and the landlord's elderly parents from haerbin lived in the lower level, tended a garden

they ate 生菜沾酱, which is any green leafy vegetable (lettuce, dandelion greens, whatever), washed and then dipped in a sauce made from pork + fermented soybean paste kinda like this recipe http://www.yihesu.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-973-parenttype-menu so good

I bet that 凉拌莴笋丝 has some sichuan peppercorn oil dripped over it

http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/06/11/cctvs-bite-of-china-takes-off-and-steam-pots-pigs-feet-benefit-too/

China would love the Food network, too!

http://img5.itiexue.net/1400/14002013.jpg

哦

http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/hardlyworthit.jpg

watched the first episode of that 'bite of china' series

mostly about special ingredients used in chinese food and how they're harvested

felt sadness and despair that these rare fungi and fish will be overharvested now that everybody wants them after watching this delicious documentary

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

http://shanghaiist.com/2012/09/12/dish_of_the_day_pork_ribs_di_shui_d.php

anybody wanna stop by real quick :(

watched some of 'a bite of china' last night; p.good

drunken frog looks...

http://images.meishij.net/p/20121012/88f5df59d3531457f73ff6dd61efed58.jpg

http://www.meishij.net/zuofa/suantianpaigu_4.html

*dies*

I don't eat ribs at all but i would tear those up.

http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1000/20120919/0019b91ec8ad11c364ef52.jpg

no dude, don't eat the table, the huge cake is right there

http://i.imgur.com/ZkPB4nh.jpg

http://www.0817china.com/cbttmtu/2008/200809/20080918006.jpg

【开水白菜】

在周恩来几次三番的盛邀之下，女客才勉强用小勺舀了些汤，谁知一尝之下立即目瞪口呆，狼吞虎咽之余不忘询问总理：为何白水煮白菜竟然可以这般美味？

boiled cabbage. floating in a clarified broth made from pork, game, jinhua ham, dried scallops. properly made, this is one of the best things you will ever taste.

http://showshanti.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20100331_Baishi-Cun-family-Zhou-ShowShanti_ShowShanti-5.jpg

http://showshanti.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/20100322_Chengdu-chili-liangfen-Luodai-Ancient-Town-mung-bean-jelly-ShowShanti-Sichuan-spicy_ShowShanti.jpg

川北凉粉

http://img.blog.voc.com.cn/jpg/200908/12/5988_926e2a934c3ad15.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fwsz3Jk.jpg

http://shanghaiist.com/2013/05/15/dish_of_the_day_braised_pork_should.php

I used to really really love bacon. Then I was into ribs. Nowadays, the pork shoulder braise is the highest form of pig I know. I want all of them.

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/null_zpsa0879cd5.jpg

my parents made garlic scapes tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsT-4oJuqTU

http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2013/08/23/consider-the-gua-bao/

Oh man, thank you for posting that! I go to Taiwan in February! Gonna eat all the gua baos, had not heard of them before!

http://i.imgur.com/dSU42yX.jpg

Something in spicy black bean sauce? Was gonna say squid, but maybe some sort of pork fat?

my guess is 蒜泥白肉

translation, please!

mashed garlic and boiled slices of pork belly + some chili oil and other stuff

might be something else, though.

http://img208.poco.cn/mypoco/myphoto/20101116/10/5571590520101116100551083_640.jpg

i like it when the slices of pork are rolled up with a slice of cucumber of equal size and thickness inside of them.

how would you translate dope (adj)

Xp is that cold? I think ive had that

i was reading about vegetarian food on this thread. i have a long story about eating vegetarian food:

in guangzhou, i'm either sick of or unimpressed by cantonese or southern food in general and quite often, i seek out a lanzhou lamian place. they're pretty standard across china, despite being operated by usually muslim chinese from different ethnic groups and regions-- like, the menu is fairly standard and the pictures of the dishes on the wall are pretty standard and there's usually a picture of the blue mosque in istanbul or wherever the blue mosque is, and quite often oversaturated pictures of western chinese grasslands and super blue-green lakes, but the way that they make the actual food might not correspond to the picture on the wall, so you might get cumin lamb and it might be crispy slices of lamb dusted with cumin or it might be a briefly stewed dish with tomatoes and tomato soup and lamb mixed up, but you can order cumin lamb, no matter where you go. i like that standardization and maybe when i first went to china, i liked the sort of refuge from chineseness or at least chinese food and it was cool to hang out with a bunch of guys that were very much on the outside of chinese society in important ways and could barely read the menu at their restaurant and quite honestly maybe it's like americans hanging out at irish bars in shanghai or something, really stupid but i did feel that way before and i did appreciate the foreignness of those types of places, anyways right now i just like the chance to escape the cantonese love of rice starch products and sweetness and i want CILANTRO and vinegar and spice and products made from wheat. most of the lanzhou lamian restaurants in guangzhou are run by people from qinghai, which i know nothing about and have never been to, and it can be interesting to talk to the people running them, at least, and it's cheap and it's always good, and even my bougiest chinese friends will usually agree to eating at a lanzhou lamian restaurant because they think of them as "clean" and less likely to use recycled cooking oil due to muslim dietary rules and that's their theory not mine and fuck it, i'm not going to eat a 50 rmb bowl of ramen in tianhe when we could go get some pulled noodles and drink some sweet tea or coca-cola out of a little glass bottle with a long straw and look at pictures of the tibetan plateau and it's about 12 rmb at most for a bowl of noodles and a half hour sitting in air conditioning.

the other day, in a haze of hangover depression and self-pity, i took the wrong street coming home and came across a street that had a few restaurants on it, somewhere near luoxi metro station. i went into a lanzhou lamian restaurant, looked pretty standard: girl from qinghai working the front of house. i noticed that it was particularly clean and along with tidied up variations on standard lanzhou lamian restaurant pictures, there was a big banner on the wall that was talking in vague terms about how eating green food, healthy food leads to a healthier spirit. i also noticed that the menu was a bit strange. like, there was no "beef pulled noodles" or anything, but just a generic "lanzhou pulled noodles." the only time the character for meat occurred on the menu was in 肉夹馍, meat in bread, which i think should always be made with really greasy boiled for hours in coffee-colored broth pork belly and raw chili peppers and cilantro but in these types of places involves a sort of dense flatbread and generic stirfried beef. i got that and i got "braised noodles," which should have been listed as "braised beef noodles." okay. when i got the bread and meat, i thought it was okay but the texture was off and i opened it to discover it was stuffed with tiny cubes of mushroom and a pressed tofu product. my suspicions were confirmed. i had somehow managed to find the only vegetarian halal fake lanzhou lamian restaurant in china. and when my noodles came, they weren't even pulled noodles and were floating in a slightly sweet tomato broth and the meat had been replaced with a multilayered bean curd product.

the usual patrons of lanzhou lamian restaurants, single men silently eating plates of noodles and lamb under buzzing fans while pretending to check their cellphones for messages from people that won't ever message them, were replaced by a group of chatty older cantonese-speaking ladies that had brought some kind of fermented yeast drink to accompany their meal and talked about eating vegetarian food during their meal. i felt deeply out of place and dissatisfied and confused.

should be ice cold imho

http://pic2.nipic.com/20090423/562443_132051082_2.jpg

fuckin nipic

anyways, here's some roujiamo maybe

http://img.gudumami.cn/gu/attachment/Mon_1005/116084_TSomwnTnZeWSVmf.jpg

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

I am pretty intimidated about feeding myself in China. I want the bestest Chinese food experiences, but with zero language skills I don't know how to shot!

you're gonna get food poisoning on your first day in china and you'll only eat white rice and plain congee for the rest of your trip

That is not going to happen. I have a stomach of steel that will have been acclimated in Taiwan!

i used to just stand up and point at dishes on other people's tables. kinda rude but people didn't seem to mind.

I do this already in Chinese restaurants (the really awesome ones in Montgomery County, MD), so y'know might as well continue. . .

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/whats-the-difference-between-a-szechuan-pepper-and-a-vibrator-8809364.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9CJqs5s23c

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1308358/confucius-cuisine-takes-sage-whole-new-level