/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Szechuan tofu + eggplant; the place I go to does pork instead of tofu if that's more your style too.

>General Tso's
>Sesame chicken

>>17351900
Always go for savory and spicy over sweet stuff. Most takeout are shitty and they'll cheat by dousing anything sweet in sugar, making it taste cheap and shitty.
I usually only get stuff that is too much trouble to make myself. Anything deep fried, and dim sum stuff like pork buns, pot stickers, egg rolls.
If you get beef and broccoli from shitty takeout you're just a retard.

>>17351916
It's annoying since they could easily just make these dishes a little better with no extra cost
For example, a little less sugar in the General Tso's and more chilies

>>17351916
The takeout spots where I live don't even do pork buns
I have to go to real Chinese restaurants for those

>>17351916
Fuuuuuuuck pork buns are good
>>17351950
Try bitter melon lol

The tastiest thing I get from Chinese takeout places is egg foo young

>>17351900
>chicken fried rice
>sweet and sour pork
>chicken balls
>ginger beef
simple as

I only ever get the Tso's, but only ever get the sauce on the side and sometimes I get tempura shrimp instead of chicken. Getting the sauce separate gives you more food in the container for no extra charge. this felt like a no brainer when the combos were $6.50 w/jumbo egg roll, but now that shit is going on $10 after tax and it's getting harder to justify going at all.

I get the tangerine beef or sesame shrimp. Girlfriend orders the shrimp pad thai, which used to be my go to

>>17351942
I have a place nearby that actually does this. The price for their dishes are about 2-3 dollars higher, but they have real ingredients. Good chicken for their general tso's (not that stringy shit) and they ask you your heat level, real steak beef, sizable shrimp etc. It's the most popular chinese place in the region for no reason other than that small improvement in quality.

>>17352072
Also deveined shrimp is a must for me, one of the places I go to doesn't do that which is a huge turnoff so I never ordered shrimp from them again

>>17352072
Newman's own (I don't know if they still make them) had these skillet dinners and the General Tso's was just like that
Basically a more gourmet take on that dish instead of the usual shitty takeout spots that make sweetness and oil 90% of the flavor profile

>>17352105
>noo not the litte veiny weinys!
Listen, kid. I grew up in the dark swamps of southern Louisiana. I've see shit nobody else has ever seen or will ever see again, because I killed so many monstrous gators that lived in them swamps with an unloaded shotgun that they're safe for my six kids to go swimming in. My father was an Exalted Cyclops for the Society of the Satanic Ku Klux Klan. I saw them sacrifice poor darkies to the devil and I saw it all with a straight face and didn't shed a tear. Now here's the deal. I caught shrimp before and when I ate em, I never "deveined" them because I'm not a PUSSY. You have to be a major league SISSY to care about the veins in shrimp. I bet you have no kids, no wife, no girlfriend, nothing. Maybe you've got someone to stuff your butthole, I could believe that. But a normal person wouldn't care about VEINS in a fucking SHRIMP.

>>17352162
T. Shit eater

shredded pork in chili sauce
boneless spare ribs
singapore noodles
shrimp in garlic sauce
shrimp toast

>>17352162
I'm laughing. Nice.

>>17352162
I don't knowingly eat shit.

But you do you bruh.

>>17352183
Shrimp in Garlic sauce is nice but they're always stingy with the shrimp
You get like 6 shrimp and a bunch of filler vegetable like empty peapods

>>17351900
Ching chong dog peepee for me

>>17352241
You'd eat shit if it was coming from your boyfriends asshole, so give me a break.

I wish they made Sweet and Sour pork the way they do in China
It looks a lot better

>>17352183
>boneless spare ribs

100% this

>>17352797
Every time I get it people are always like "what the fuck is that it looks/smells good." Also there's zero filler I always get it when i'm starving.

>>17351900
Egg foo young. I like it with vegetables but you can get it with meat too. How much you'll enjoy it will probably depend on the quality of the sauce that comes with it but the places I've ordered it give some kind of brown gravy that tastes pretty good.

i unironically just get beef and broccoli most of the time hard for it to go wrong and it's usually the closest to chink food
t. canton chink

>>17352877
That brown gravy is delicious
>>17352862
Is there any disadvantage versus the non-boneless ones?

>>17352997
I've actually never had the bonein ones. I figure they all into the same sized container so i'm basically paying for less meat. I'll have to try it next time to compare. I wouldn't be surprised if the bonein ones taste better but I usually eat chinese at work and i don't really want to eat ribs at work.

I feel like kung pao chicken is under appreciated.
They usually have really good fried chicken wings too, at least in my experience.
Hot and sour soup is always a classic but I feel like most people don't order it.

>>17351900
szechuan vermicelli is good (aka singapore noodles according to google), its thin rice noodles with char sui and shrimp, fried with curry powder.
Almond chicken soo guy was a favorite when I was a kid, but it can be kind of plain.

>>17353019
wings and hot and sour soup are based. i'm surprised they don't both coating the wings in sauce though

>>17353078
The wings wouldn't stay crispy long if you put sauce on them, better to dip in in later as you eat.

The place below me has something called cold noodles. Not even my girlfriend knew what it was. It is cold thick noodles, kind of like udon, with a peanut sauce and bits of pork.
Not something I would order on my own, but if I ordered something else with it would be nice

>>17353106
Probably sesame cold noodles, it's pretty good but like you said only for a few bites before it's too much

>>17353106
strange flavour noodles (guai wei)

>>17352162
Unimaginably based and swamp pilled

>>17353019
I've actually had really good Kung Pao from takeout spots
The sauce is really tasty (a little spicy, savory, barely sweet)

>>17353106
that sounds more like actual Chinese food than takeout spot stuff

>>17353142
this, actual chinese food is a whole different world than the stuff the chinese sell to us "gwailo"

>>17353189
there is some overlap though, in China things like Kung Pao Chicken, Beef Chow Fun, and Lemon Chicken are actually a thing

>>17353189
I like actual Chinese food but a lot of it is shit that even adventurous Western eaters wouldn't want, lots of organ meats and chicken/duck cut in a way that almost looks like it was meant to make you choke on bone shards

>>17351900
I usually get shanghai chicken, which from my place is just a nice teriyaki chicken with some onions and green peppers.
The thing with Chinese places is that everybody makes shit differently.

Moo Shu Pork

>>17353500
Come here to say this

>>17351900
Got me some 黄焖鸡米饭 but it wasn't traditional, I chose the braised chicken to be served over hand-torn noodles instead of the usual rice. Also I could taste sichuan peppercorn oil, which isn't normally in the dish unless it's actually Big Plate Chicken.

>>17353528
That looks like actual Chinese food

>>17353528
Are those bell peppers or mild chilies?

>>17353763
They're mild peppers, or bell chillies if you wanna get pretentious.

>>17353763
Just regular bell peppers. The other vegetables were a potato or radish, Black Fungus, roughly chopped onion.

>>17353777
fungus isn't a vegetable

I always order the 8 cream cheese wontons and eat all of them before my main course. Any other way would be heresy.

>>17351900
I replaced the chinese with "Wok to Walk", chinese were doing nothing but disapointing me over and over again. Cheaping out on ingredients, making it too oily, overall shit disgusting behavior. So wok to walk it is.

>>17351900
Chinese American food always tastes so unnaturally good to me that I just know it's poison to my body. I will still keep eating that garbage.

>>17353780
I am not a knowledgeable person.

>>17353834
they're functionally vegetables just like tomatoes so its no big deal

I love the way Chinese takeout places smell

>>17351900
Broccoli beef is one of my favorite American-Chinese dishes. Never had a bad one no matter where I've ordered. Kung Pao chicken is another favorite, but since it's more complex than broccoli beef, not everyone does it the same way or the way I like it.

Really, though, you should just get the basics to make stir fry sauces and make your own Chinese food at home. It's really easy and inexpensive. You can just buy whatever meat and veg are on sale that week and use those, and rice or noodles are always cheap.

I like chicken in black bean sauce.
I used to get curry beef with onion until I realised how piss-easy that shit is to make at home.

Chicken in plum sauce.

bat soup :P

i get pork egg foo young and a large beef fried rice and combine in a bowl and eat like a total fat fuck.

>>17354625
>pork egg foo young
I feel you mang, I used to get "three seasons rice" with a dish of chicken with bamboo shots chinese shrooms and some thick-ish soy sauce and eat it combined just mixing the two right in my fork when eating them. I'd just place them side by side in the dish. Well that was before:
>>17353822
happened

I just wanted to confirm that broccoli and garlic sauce is pretty much the chicken and broccoli dish but without the chicken?

>Hunan Chicken
>Singapore Mei Fun
>Flounder In Pine Nuts w/ Sweet & Sour Sauce
>Beef Rendang
>Basil chicken
The place by me is amazing chimichangas for some reason. Taco Bell tier burritos & tacos. Pretty decent quesadilla w/ sauteed mushrooms & onions. Don't know why they have tex-mex stuff.

>>17355448
Definitely not
Usually when you order "chicken and broccoli" the sauce is the same as the brown sauce that goes on beef and broccoli
Broccoli with garlic sauce has the same sauce that goes on chicken/shrimp/beef with garlic sauce, which is a sweet, garlicky, spicy sauce

Chicken on a stick baybeeeeee

How is Panda express? Is it better than the average shitty takeout spot?

>>17355841
In NYC back in the day, a lot of Chinese people opened up Tex Mex spots due to the oversaturation of Chinese takeout spots.
Nowadays though, there are a lot of actual Mexicans in NYC so I think the days of the Chinese Tex-Mex spots (mostly called Yummy Taco) are numbreed

>>17356430
No, possibly similar quality but you'll be paying much more per portion than the hole in the wall Golden Wok or Super Dragon or whatever the fuck.

I wonder what something halfway between American Chinese and authentic Chinese would be like

>>17351900
>What are some less commonly ordered items from Chinese takeout places that you like?
It's fact that people often buy less healthy fried items when dining out, because it's opposite to how they cook at home, whether for too much effort at home, or just to make the break from home cooking more festive and undulgent.
This is partially why the fried stuff seems like the only things people order, from kung pao to fried won tons.

I actually love all that too, but my standing order for the hong king stye chinese place nearest my house is a big family order to split and pretty light
large special won ton soup (loaded with veggies and shrimp)
moo goo gai pan which is totally light and just a bok choy lovers dream
mushroom egg foo young
brown rice or pork fried rice

I'll kick up the rice with some lao gan ma

>>17357251
>I wonder what something halfway between American Chinese and authentic Chinese would be like
The difference is literally better cuts of meat. Americans won't be chewing on gristle or sucking on broken bones for fun. They'll never go back if you use thighs or dark meat chicken.

>>17357294
are you implying dark meat is bad? I'm very American and prefer dark meat, breast meat is boring

Black pepper beef
Salt and pepper chicken wings
Salt and pepper fried shrimp
Singapore rice noodles

>>17356381
Oh shit. Thanks for clearing that up for me, anon.

>>17357571
Granted, my experience is from American Chinese takeout, it might be different in other countries

>>17356430

Not too bad, but little variety. I miss Mister Chau's.

>>17356724

Not necessarily. Chinese prices on the west coast have gone up to the point where Panda is much cheaper per portion.

>>17353834
but at least you arent a faggot like that guy

>>17351900
Chow ho fun

>>17353106
Cold noodles is great

>>17352162

>>17352162
Trying too hard

>>17351900
Hunan chicken is general tso's but better

I want to sniff QiErWa's ass

>>17351900
EhhhHhhhhh the place near me I get the BAt SOUP

>>17351900
Pepper Steak.
My local place makes it like a hearty saute of green bell peppers, onions, and thin-sliced beef, with a lightly sweetened black-pepper savory sauce, served with a side of rice in four possible ways.
It's my go-to choice now whenever I order.

>>17356421
Wonder how they fry/prepare this sort of chicken. Always had a really rather distinct taste than other fried chicken I've had in the past.

Mu Shu whatever your favorite meat is out of beef chicken or pork, with plum sauce.