/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17554535
You're welcome, just keep in mind that my experience is probably limited in scope due to the location and the social circles I met while there. My host family was upper middle class and they probably showed the nicer parts of the country, same as we did when we hosted the chinese students where I lived. That being said we also were there without our hosts for a week, during which we probably saw more normal middle class foods.

If you are genuinely interested in chinese food the youtube channels chinese cooking demystified and chef wang have authentic stuff. Chef wang has a lot of exotic ingredients and animals, but also more normal dishes. CKD is more accessible for western viewers but they occasionally upload companion videos from the actual restaurants.
For example they have two from their favorite Dai Pai Dongs, which are like food stalls that have sitdown options on the street (often garden chair tier) and would be what I'd consider lower middle class to middle class food:
Cantonese fry roast chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVHZXEHMwrg
Black pepper beef: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4akA83Nd6UE
and lately one from a food stall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfLo0n3oah8
As you can see those have slightly lower hygienic rules than in the west (like france or spain), but better than what I have seen in places like india or some eastern european places, though spain came close.

I found pic related after a quick search and the general feeling of the round tables, the rotary center piece and the heavy dark wood chairs was pretty reprensentative of what I remember from the more upper middle class restaurants.