Where the hell my Chinese food at?

i wish i lived somewhere i could order chinese at 3 AM

i.e. NOW

where my sesame chicken at

a minute after i typed that, the food showed up.

Yo, why do Chinese takeout joints NEVER have scallion pancakes????

scallion pancakes are bomb.

I mean on the one hand it makes them that much more special when I find them, but half the time when I do I'm not even in the mood for them. And they are SO RARE!!

Hatin at u, half-dozen or so Chinese restaurants on Girard btwn 26th and 30th in Philly

they are very good and not hard to make, it's true, but they do tend to be very oily

yeah, similarly hatin at monterey park

scallion pancake is far more common at taiwanese restaurants, not all chinese cuisines are the same...

I see your point shasta but scallion pancakes are pretty ubiquitous in China and not are not really identified as originating from any particular region, I would especially not claim that they are associated with Taiwan cuisine moreso than any other Chinese regional cuisine

;)

IME, they are on every menu at Taiwanese restaurants in the USA/Japan/Singapore/Malaysia. Whereas you are far less likely to find them on the menus of other Chinese cuisines... totally IME.

str8 lollin @ the chinese wiki for scallion pancake the majority of which is dedicated to:

"Relationship with pizza

An interesting argument that the Italian -style pie , that pizza , most likely evolved by the Green onion pancake. Said that Marco Polo lived in China, the most favorite North Green onion pancake, after returning home unable to get, but I do not know how to cook. Later, finally found one willing to try the Naples chefs , but the production is not a simple Green onion pancake, had proposed filling on the dough, the baked food, the plan has been praised everyone. The chef will then return to Naples in Naples, accompanied by bread cheese and other ingredients, and create a unique pizza taste. [1]
However, studies now show in Europe, whether pie or a pizza , not Marco Polo brought back from China, but far away in the Marco Polo was born there before the food in the Mediterranean region [2] [3] [4] [ 5] , so Pisa should Greece or Mesopotamia region invention [6] : The first is covered in pizza, thousands of years ago in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East already well-known cheese, at that time not yet Chinese people know. In addition, pizza "pizza" the etymology of the word can also be traced back to Marco Polo was born 250 years before 997 AD, found in southern Italy in a Gaeta Latin literature [7] . All the evidence suggests that "from China" argument is a myth."

Chinese folx always be claiming...

that's taken from the English version of scallion pancake i think

anyway IME you can get scallion pancakes at pretty much every restaurant in China... where it counts ;-)

also c/p from taiwanese cuisine wiki:

Scallion pancakes - (蔥油餅) flour pancake with many thin layers, made with scallions (chopped green onions). A snack originating in the Chinese mainland

Can't eat scallion pancakes anymore (deep-fried or super greasy stuff now forbidden by my GI Dr). So heartbreaking.

and anyway if you're eating at chinese restaurants that specialize in regional Chinese cuisine then yeah, you're probably not gonna find scallion pancakes cause it's such a common dish, an example of what the Chinese call 家常菜. no idea why taiwanese people be claimin it, always stealin Chinese things imo, just like all those stolen cultural relics they got in that palace museum ripoff they got goin in taipei. IMO. :D

I mean, it'd be like saying hamburgers aren't really an American food because you couldn't find them at this one cajun restaurant you went to in London. not sayin but I'm sayin

Hmmm, I've always associated scallion pancakes with Korean food. Then again, I don't eat Chinese very often.

oooooh korean pancakes are a whole 'nother story. more chewy, for one thing. I'll let Shasta take over.

oh, and obviously, like all good things in korean culture, the idea for pajeon was stolen from China. :)

no idea what you're going on about... look, just sayin, if you're looking for scallion pancakes, i've found that you're more than likely to find them in taiwanese restaurants DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY MAY BE UBIQUITOUS IN CHINA, just trying to help a scallion pancake loving ilxor out. fuiud.

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it's a realization i kinda came to a while back when i was readin this thread about chinese pps on another message board, the group talking on there was like half white half se asian, and the white pps were all like making fun of the lil old asian ladies who sell scallion pancakes or whatever and all the white pps were REALLY (rearry) getting into it, like really leaping at the chance to pile onto china ppl, and the azns started fuming and piped in all like YO THOSE OLD LADIES MAKE MAD BANK THEY ARE THE JEWS OF ASIA but the most salient point they made, that really stuck with me, was when they were like MAYBE IT'S EASIER TO PICK ON THE CHINKS CUZ YOU'RE ALL AFRAID OF NIGGERS (i am literally quoting here this isnt me being funny okay guys dont SB me for that) - and that rang pretty true imo, like i think what happens is ppl are so pent-up w/unconscious resentment about not getting to unleash the RaHoWa fury on the more premium races, that when more socially acceptable targets present themselves they REALLY go overboard piling onto them fools - that's why fats are the most miserable and degraded of any group in america today, they are everyone's punching bag

surely there is a dcoq post along the same lines?

Well we have to discuss the two types of scallion pancakes. There's the brown and crispy deep-fried variety, which are nice, but then there's the chewy doughy pan-fried variety that is SUPER DUPER A+. My local takeout place (Mr. Rice, wtf) has the pan fried ones and they call them "Chinese pizza". And yeah, I've made them before--v simple!! But I can't get the hang of the amazing dipping sauce.

Will they sell you just the sauce?

Well I mean it must be easy to make; I just don't know what it's called. It's that slightly sweet sauce that comes with pork DUMPLINGS!

http://gothamist.com/2015/08/26/prosperity_dumpling_uh_oh.php

jeff in real life ‏@thecultureofme 1 hour ago
catfish, but it’s about chinese food orders getting fucked up