thread of pictures of real chinese food

http://i.imgur.com/3ekbg24.jpg

Had some of this on a stick

Excellent with soy sauce and mustard

Well tell us what it is, for christ's sake.

Pig intestine

looks pretty awesome, imo

dylann, is ketchup on top a thing? for specific dishes or just as a condiment?

i don't think i ever saw ketchup as a condiment in china before living in guangzhou. i often see it offered as a condiment/topping for things like: fish balls, beef blood and guts in soup like above, 手抓饼 (??? it's like a flaky dough thing with ham and egg in it and the sauce options are ketchup or mayo), chicken wings, sausages and other meat things on a stick, other streetside and mallside snacks.

Ketchup is a condiment with many Chinese characteristics. Sweet, sour + umami all in one sauce. It's great

My dad has been known to make marinades and sauces with ketchup. You can make a pretty good 红烧 anything with it

i never see it in the north though, i don't think. maybe i do. i wanted to speculate about the conservativeness of northern foodways vs. cantonese cuisine's or the cantonese eater's approach to outside influences or maybe ketchup came via hk.

It'll catch pretty soon I think

It's very suited to the Chinese palate

It's also true that it's been in HK since forever, and not the American kind either

Most of the big HK saucehouses have their own version

http://i.imgur.com/yTpgVl0.jpg

northerners do cook with it, too. but yeah they love their ketchup in the south, mh.

makes sense, thanks!

http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/eat/40-taiwanese-food-296093

Taiwanese food is seriously incredible

Inspired to make an oyster omelette tonight

what are the best chinese dishes with game birds

I went to a place in Beijing that put something like 7+ different kinds of game birds into a big soup

Some of the birds were really tiny

There drumsticks were comically sized and hard to eat

The bones could function as toothpicks afterwards

But in general I think duck and goose are staples, and you can get them every which way

the idea of putting them in a soup is that it boils all the meat off the tiny bones i guess

duck and goose work well in all sorts of cuisines, especially those with ample source of umami/sourness/sweetness to complement the fattiness, game birds have more flavour but are mostly very lean

Yeah that's true although my favorite duck preparation doesn't use sourness/sweetness at all

http://i.imgur.com/fRLHFY8.jpg

The end result is quite lean and gamey, probably due to the smoking process. I'm not sure where the fat goes

Plum sauce is definitely a thing but there are many different ways of eating a duck

I'm not aware of any broadly popular recipes that call for a game bird

But I'm sure there are some regions of China that will use a game bird in a regional specialty

Do pigeons count as game birds

You can see how some people have chosen to cook pigeon here

http://www.meishichina.com/YuanLiao/GeZi/1/

yeah pigeons count

Mom uncorked a bottle of Great Wall red wine for some reason

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/7A4233FC-0C7D-4844-B704-BC727DF479FA_zpsln9pbp3k.jpg

We've had it for god knows how long

Tastes awful. Really dry and bitter

Looks awesome, about as appealing as licking red vermouth off my carpet.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/12/02/248195661/ketchup-the-all-american-condiment-that-comes-from-asia?ft=1&f=1015

Wow you could argue that ketchup came from China originally. Crazy world. Globalization. Trade.

Kind of funny "ketchup" just meant a sauce originally and that tomato ketchup took a while to catch on. Kind of reminds me of the Americanization of "salsa" they mentioned, where it mostly means some runny tomato-based sauce you eat on tortilla chips but is basically just any of a number of sauces.

We're all lactose intolerant.

That's not true, is it!? I drink milk every day!

http://so.cntv.cn/language/english/?qtext=snacking&type=0

in case the link doesn't work: cctv's snacking across China doc

I'm eating real chinese food all the time now

It's fucking amazing

龜 please tell me about a delicious Chinese breakfast

I'm eating real chinese food all the time now

It's fucking amazing

me too/yes, yes it is

I am also curious about actual delicious Chinese breakfast; all I know is that Taipei has tons of great bakeries, so breakfast for me is delicious, delicious bread/pastry. Oh and sometimes noodle soup.

I do not get congee, but I would like to understand the appeal.

quincie just get up in the morning and take a walk and figure out where all the Chinese people are eating and walk in and point at things

http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/eat/40-taiwanese-food-296093

Think I've hit about ten of these in the first week, but have not yet visited a night market (that will happen in the next few days) and will no doubt knock off a bunch of these in one go.

xpost: there is definitely a Taiwan breakfast thing that involves an egg and a thin pancake/crepe type thing that I will try. Also various soup sorts of things. None of these places has an English menu (or any menu, actually), so I will definitely point and say thank you six hundred times and hopefully not come off as a complete asshole.

But still, congee. What is up with that? I like lots of the pickled things, so maybe the idea is to use congee as a vehicle for that stuff? IDGI though, would rather have a nice bowl of rice.

龜 please tell me about a delicious Chinese breakfast

― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, January 19, 2014 12:37 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

I went out for a walk this morning and bought some scallion pancakes from this really nice lady on the street

And this like """pastry""" made with scallions and eggs

It's just like 100x better than what you can get in NYC Chinatown. And I was just there

Like the people are the same but the ingredients, how they cook it, what they cook it on, I think it all makes a difference

Maybe it's the heavy metals + chemicals

But every iteration is just better over here man

But still, congee. What is up with that? I like lots of the pickled things, so maybe the idea is to use congee as a vehicle for that stuff? IDGI though, would rather have a nice bowl of rice.

― quincie, Sunday, January 19, 2014 5:44 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah you eat the pickled salty things and drink the congee to take the edge off

It's like a chaser

It's an acquired taste

I like to just have congee plain by itself, it's really good for settling your stomach or if you're feeling queasy you know

xpost: there is definitely a Taiwan breakfast thing that involves an egg and a thin pancake/crepe type thing that I will try

I've had this it's really really good

scallion pancakes sound so good

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

You know what's even better than soup DUMPLINGS!? These lil guys

I have not had those lil guys, but I have had a bigger version (steam bun that gets crisped on the bottom).

Hard to imagine anything better than soup DUMPLINGS!, tho.

I have had "crummy" North American (Canadian) versions of scallion pancakes, for breakfast too, one of my favourite ways to start a day

Been pestering all administrative bodies to get my ass to China asap

The DUMPLINGS! I just posted are also soup DUMPLINGS! they have soup inside of them

It's darker grittier reboot of the soup dumpling

BTW some of the western food is better here than in America too

For example the fancy cheeses are imported from France where they're allowed to use unpasteurized milk

Like I have never really liked brie but my roommate bought some French brie and it was fantastic

China is turning me into a food libertarian

Bathe me in gutter oil

Think my heart just stopped

It's been nice, posting here

Please don't die before I get to Shanghai! That rhymes, see.

congee is nice warm comfort food. spiced with ginger and add a dash of pepper and spring onion what's not to like?

Surely you're being ironic

像你的婚禮當天的雨

I have a real chinese food cooking question. Say I am a real chinese home cook, and I'm making something that requires beef or chicken (or fish, or pork, whatevs) broth. What do I do if I'm not equipped to make that stuff from scratch? Do I get a can from the supermarket, or is there a frozen version, or do I go to my local brothmonger and ask for some plain broth to take home?

You can totally get a can from the supermarket! #nevercookedrealchinesefoodinhislife