/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Pretty much anything that appears to have the least sugar added to it as possible.

>>16452557
When I lived in Portland the nearby chinese place made the best damned hot and sour soup I've ever had. Ironically, when the coof happened their quality went to shit

Chicken fried rice, Wonton Soup, and of course Crab Rangoon. Bite a little corner off a Rangoon drip a bit of coy sauce in there, MUST be kikkoman, and eat all in one bite

>>16452557
Mu Shu Beef with extra pancakes and sauce.

>>16452557
Fried rice is always a good pick, I don’t really trust the beef from Chinese places so I usually order chicken lo mein

>>16452557
Usually I order a duck dish, because I don't generally eat duck in day-to-day life.

The cat or possibly dog if I feel like splurging

Wontons, bouncing between steamed or fried. Hunan beef or whatever the spicy one is, and pork fried rice. Usually its like 20 bucks for a solid 2-3 meals

>>16452576
I feel like every restaurant has gone to shit since the start of this bullshit. I have had horrible experience eating out over the last year and have just started cooking every meal at home with no exceptions.

I just get one of the prepackaged family of 4 combos at random, eat half of it and then contemplaye kms

>>16452557

usually lo mein, chicken normally. place i normally go uses a lot of homemade garlic oil with tons of garlic chunks in it. very tasty.

>>16452904
What I remember as chinese food growing up as a young kid in Hong Kong

>turtle/shark fin soup
>fried chicken feet
>pig uterus noodles
>fried rice with pork knuckle gristle
>unidentifed fish balls on a stick
>boiled dog meat
>one time, monkey brains

Americans have no idea how bad it really is. No one in china knows what the fuck beef and broccoli is or sweet and sour pork. Chinese food is disgusting. Literally the worst parts to eat of any animal. Makes sense because chinks are the race of humans closest to animals. They make disgusting noises when they eat, slurp everything, men in the streets lift their fucking wife beaters over their sweaty stomachs while laughing and chewing with their mouths full of food. Like what kind of idiot decided 2 sticks is the most practical way to eat grains of fucking rice. Starving Nigerians who eat grass have a better diet than the average chinese.

>>16452557
I judge a chinese spot 100% on their dumplings. There's different variations of dumplings but if yours sucks then your entire restaurant sucks.

>>16452557
My local place has these weirdly good ribs. They are flamin hot cheeto red and they are like nothing I've tasted. Either in terms of ribs in general, or ones you'd get at a chinese place.

>>16453637
nice to see it isn't just americans that hate their own country, but so do chinamen

>>16453637
I've seen this exact post before.

>>16453637
Copypasta

>>16452557
fried dumplings
bbq pork w/ rice
fried chicken
bottle of sprite

>>16452557
ham fried rice
fried wontons or hot and sour soup in the winter

>>16452557
kung pao combo (or whatever they call the one that has all the meats)
plain fried rice
simple as

>>16452557
Wonton noodle soup, mushu pork or cashew chicken. Place is a goddamn institution, and is also the first restaurant i ever went to funny enough.

>>16452557
White bros, I don't wanna interrupt your thread for too long; yes I can read I get the point of this thread, but I'm just here to tell you that there is a world outside of the Jewish American (yes, Americanized Chinese food is a Jewish creation, most jews go to Chinese restaurants for Christmas and they wanted food that would fit an American Jewish palate, have you ever wondered why none of these dishes have any pork) Chinese food.

Guys just think about what you're eating; they jam a shit load of sugar and HFCS into every dish and it all ends up with a sickly sweet sugary glaze on everything. I can understand why you guys like it, but there are alternatives.

First of all, any Chinese restaurant with the words "China", "Star", "Buffet", "Wok", "Express", and "Chopsticks" are gonna be your American Chinese restaurants. If you don't care and just want your orange chicken and egg roll combo, well now you know what to look for, but there are more authentic Chinese dishes that still match the American palate. Not all authentic Chinese food is boiled dog assholes or whatever you're thinking.

pic related is my go to order at the best Chinese restaurant near me. From left to right: 椒鹽豆腐/Sichuan Pepper and Salt Tofu, 重慶辣子雞/Chongqing Fried Chicken, 乾扁四季豆/Sichuan Style Green Beans, 水煮牛/Beef in spicy broth (beef strips cooked in a spicy Chinese broth). This meal is totally in line with the American palate; its got fried stuff and the spices are good to balance the meal. You can probably find all 4 of these items at your local Chinese restaurant; look specifically for Sichuan places.

Total cost: $45; enough food for me and a few friends, or just myself with leftovers just for me for a few days. Of course it's pricier than just getting a "#6 combo with extra fried rice", but again you can have leftovers. Don't let your fear of the unknown stop you from trying actually good authentic Chinese food. Try ordering Pic related next time

Here's a better Pic of the plate. I only ever go with white rice. In Chinese dining etiquette (look away now if you don't care, I understand if you don't this part is just for people who are extra autistic/wanna be super authentic), you load up a small handheld bowl with rice, you grab a plate full of each of the dishes, then you go to town on your plate, all while picking up the rice bowl with one hand and using the chopsticks to shovel rice into your mouth. You don't use the chopsticks to pick up clumps of rice. And if you're at a restaurant with company, you never use your chopsticks to pick up food directly that's on the lazy Susan, there's always a service spoon/tongs that go with each dish. Here's a pro tip if you guys are ever in a group of Chinese people who you're close with, they gotta be good friends: if there's only one serving tongs and they're in use, I'd you're with close friends, you can just turn over your chopsticks and use the other side to pick stuff up. Don't do this in front of non friends or family though.

Sure you could spend a but extra and go with fried rice, but I'm not about that life; I don't like American Chinese fried rice, plus we don't typically eat it with our meals; for us it's mostly a leftovers thing that you cook up quickly for breakfast. I'm not denigrating your choices, I just would never hock out extra money for some shittily fried rice.

Finally in case any of you are curious, typically we don't eat specially created desserts in Chinese cuisine. Typically, we just have fruit. Most of the time it's a plate of orange or watermelon slices. If I'm making Chinese food at home for friends, I like to compromise and do a fruit medley.

You can do whatever you like of course, including ignoring my posts completely. But in case any of you were ever curious about a more authentic approach to Chinese food that doesn't involve eating a bunch of food you don't know and are afraid to try, well here you go.

I've been craving egg foo yung lately. It's decent value. During childhood every so often we'd get big aluminum platters with multiple choices. The greasy crappy food goes best globbed together. Most here aren't stand alone Chinese and are mostly chip or fry shops that sell fish and burgers too.

>>16454247
very cool thank you anon

>>16452557
Combination Short and Long Soup.
And prawn crackers. I love these lil cunts like you wouldn't believe.

>>16454209
>>16454247
quality posts on /ck/?

>>16453637
That is some delicious Chop Pi with noodles, my fine yellow friend.

>>16452557
I usually get the bow-wow combo numba 7 with about 3 of the meow-meow skurs and the black-da soup

>>16454209
>have you ever wondered why none of these dishes have any pork

Then what the fuck is SWEET AND SOUR PORK

>mongolian lamb
>salt & pepper squid
>garlic chicken
>fried rice

>>16452557
My favorite is the Laziji.

>>16452557
chicken skewers
and these posts
>>16454209
>>16454247

>>16452601
Based and mu shu pilled. People STILL don't know that you get a weeks worth of food with a mu shu order and it never gets tiring or filled with chunks of cartilage like their "general tso" crap.

>>16454209
No one cares, slant.
I’ll have an order of fried rice with General Tso’s and Orange Chicken. Chop chop, or you won’t get tipped!

>>16452557
My typical order is roast pork lo mein, spring rolls, and sometimes the steamed/fried dumplings.
>>16454209
>yes, Americanized Chinese food is a Jewish creation, most jews go to Chinese restaurants for Christmas and they wanted food that would fit an American Jewish palate, have you ever wondered why none of these dishes have any pork) Chinese food.
Stop going to shitty takeout spots, pork is the best meat they have to offer at my local carryout.

>>16452557
kung flu

>>16452557
>chinese food
no thanks, i prefer not being poisoned