This sure looks gross and completely out of the range of American palates.
Dry Fried Chicken - Specifically "Five Star Chicken" from Lao Sze Chuan
Peking Duck
Chinese Crepe with Eggs
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Chinese Cuisine Showdown: Orange vs. Sesame vs. General Tso's
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Dry Fried Chicken - Specifically "Five Star Chicken" from Lao Sze Chuan
Peking Duck
Chinese Crepe with Eggs
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Chinese food is not that weird dude.
Chinese cuisine is incredibly widely varying. In general, when you think of "Chinese food" in this country, it's usually Cantonese cuisine.
If you live in any major city, you'll be able to find Chinese restaurants where actual Chinese folks go out to eat. Dim sum's probably a good bet - especially on weekend mornings.
The best Chinese dish I've ever had was this eggplant dish in black bean sauce. Still have no idea what it's called.
Google image search "chinese cuisine".
It's mostly vegetables, meat, fish, rice, and noodles. Primary spices are garlic, ginger, and red pepper. Soy sauce is pretty common.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Sichuan is the best chinese regional cuisine.
Vermillion
Banned
The general, all day erryday
AlphaTwo00
Member
Sweet and Sour Pork, or the variants like Stir-fried Spare Ribs are superior than the imitations that is General Tso's (which I have only heard of once I moved to Canada).
Pic for reference:
Pic for reference:
AngmarsKing701
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General Tso's
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Kite
Member
That's the joke~
AlphaTwo00
Member
Fun fact for OP:
Orange Chicken
Lemon Chicken
General Tso's
So you might as well change the thread title to: "American Chinese Imitation Cuisine Showdown"
Orange Chicken
Lemon Chicken
General Tso's
So you might as well change the thread title to: "American Chinese Imitation Cuisine Showdown"
Chie Satonaka
Member
This is correct.
What did you eat? You know Chinese food encompasses 1/6 of the human population and the difference between regions can be similar to the difference between Mexican and New England food, right?
E HUGZ
sixteen-bit
Member
I'm hungry again thanks to this thread
But everyone knows and we don't care about the semantics
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
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On a related topic to foods and what not. Pretty good site for asian cooking.
http://rasamalaysia.com/
Over there got the recipe for General Tso's Chicken which I plan on making at my friends place. Mine dont have the proper tools to safely fry things.
Though I always knew it as General Tsao's Chicken.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
My favorite part of food threads is when we find out if the food is authentic or not.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Bah. I remember talking to a coworker in Montreal who said she was worried that the Chinese restaurants hid stuff from her. I brought up one time I took two white girls out to a dim sum place. They wouldn't eat some of the weirder stuff and I was stuck with it all.
She agreed that many wouldn't be able to stomach it, so I asked her how she would feel about chicken's feet. And she surprisingly said, there's no way she'd miss a chicken feet dish
edit: to the OP, General Tso. One of the clearest memories I have is my grandfather (who ran a restaurant in China) make it for me when my grandmother and mother were away. I wished he cooked all the food I had back then.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Well it was kind of funny coming into these threads and have no idea what anyone is talking about when you've grown up on chinese food.
Bah. I remember talking to a coworker in Montreal who said she was worried that the Chinese restaurants hid stuff from her. I brought up one time I took two white girls out to a dim sum place. They wouldn't eat some of the weirder stuff and I was stuck with it all.
She agreed that many wouldn't be able to stomach it, so I asked her how she would feel about chicken's feet. And she surprisingly said, there's no way she'd miss a chicken feet dish
edit: to the OP, General Tso. One of the clearest memories I have is my grandfather (who ran a restaurant in China) make it for me when my grandmother and mother were away. I wished he cooked all the food I had back then.
She has good taste
Bah. I remember talking to a coworker in Montreal who said she was worried that the Chinese restaurants hid stuff from her. I brought up one time I took two white girls out to a dim sum place. They wouldn't eat some of the weirder stuff and I was stuck with it all.
She agreed that many wouldn't be able to stomach it, so I asked her how she would feel about chicken's feet. And she surprisingly said, there's no way she'd miss a chicken feet dish
edit: to the OP, General Tso. One of the clearest memories I have is my grandfather (who ran a restaurant in China) make it for me when my grandmother and mother were away. I wished he cooked all the food I had back then.
I love chicken feet.
Syph Medwes
Member
Based on the OP, orange chicken. General Tsao's would win, but it needs to be eaten with white rice.
aparisi2274
Member
General Tso's for me!
I make sure to order it with white meat chicken only (God knows what the other meat is...) and EXTRA spicy!
I make sure to order it with white meat chicken only (God knows what the other meat is...) and EXTRA spicy!
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, I think she's a relatively rare case. I'm definitely ordering 'regular' stuff if I have to take out white female friends again.
My wife, on the other hand, will eat stuff even I'll avoid.
Evolution_1ne
Banned
General Tso 4 life
Crispy General Tso with white rice and a pair of chop sticks.
Crispy General Tso with white rice and a pair of chop sticks.
Uh, dark meat? Meaning the legs of the bird.
Dark meat is tasty meat!
You're basically saying people that like it are inferior in some way because it's candy and not "legit" food.
If I'm belligerent, it's because I'm highly annoyed at the food culture of highly rewarding, engineered food trying to replace authentic cuisine. It's the primary cause of the obesity epidemic.
I don't think people that like junk food are inferior.
good taste, if you like fish shuizhu yu is the same thing but with fish fillets, but the type of fish they use usually has like a ton of the fish bones so it gets annoying after some time, but i recommend the fish one over beef
bwahahhahaha, that's not peking duck bro
Peking Duck
real peking duck only uses the skin, or at least just a bit of the meat
I've seen pancakes or buns. It seems to be all buns in Chicago, though, at least the main Peking Duck haunt hereabouts.
Pancakes seem more common, but yeah Peking Duck uses both the meat and the skin. Who the hell would want to eat duck skin only?
Well some people like skin only, though I personally like skin+meat a lot more so long as it's cut right.
When it's done well, Peking duck is the best dish of all time.
Of all time
I mean, to be fair, the picture I posted in that post looked like someone had taken a knife and cut across the grain on the duck meat, which never, ever happens. It's usually thin slices following the grain.
It is definitely one of my top five favorite dishes of all time.
soundscream
Member
Yuck, I hate when places use yellow rice for the fried rice.
And orange chicken is the correct answer.
And orange chicken is the correct answer.
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
Tso
It's probably just called "eggplant in black bean sauce."
I can't eat peking duck with those white buns. Only lettuce or the thinner, tortilla-like stuff.
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