/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I love general tso's and kung pao. Any of those gloppy sugary chicken concoctions really. I always get white rice because the fried rice is usually shit.

Crab Rangoon

>>6742727
Singapore noodles, beef chow fun, vegetable lo mein. (I fucking love noodles, and am not a fan of Chinese American sweet gravy like sauces).

my usual order is krab rangoon and whatever they're whoopityshit "all the meats we have thrown in" fried rice

>>6742727
I always wonder how they make the meat so red on the outside

>tfw only eat legit chinese food

Love me some general tso's and sweet and sour pork. And got-damn I could eat a whole gallon of this one place's hot and sour soup.

>>6743011

Originally it was because the marinade from the meat contained red fermented tofu, which in turn gets its color from red rice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_yeast_rice

,,,though these days most places will use red food coloring instead.

>>6743011
A lot of places will add food coloring to get it that brightly red.

Char Siu naturally ends up being reddish-brown due to the way its cooked, but it's not that red without additives.

>>6743102
>tfw Chinese

>>6743102
I eat much more Chinese food than Chinese American, simply because I don't want to be a fatass, and most Americanized Chinese is way too heavy with the fat and sugar for my taste. That doesn't mean some of it isn't delicious, though.

I made the point in another thread that 20th Century American food adapted it's levels of grease and salt to compete with the cheeseburger and fries. The same thing happened to Italian American food, and Mexican American food. You don't find Pizza Hut style pizza in Italy or Mission style burritos in Mexico. That doesn't mean these things aren't delicious, but it does mean you'll get fat if you eat this kind of food regularly. Same goes fro Chinese American. It's another example of turning an immigrant cuisine into delicious junk food.

>>6742727
Yu hsiang eggplant with pork is really the GOAT of all American-Chinese food.

them ching chong bing bong groceries are full of cat meat's and MSG and yellow #5 which will make your sperms die and give you canser of the benis :D

>>6743156
Go for a run you fat fuck.

And now, I will walk to my corner and get some PFR. Thanks, OP, for giving me the incentive to add some much needed calories to my diet.

I prefer HK chicken-and-saltfish fried rice for real chingchong food, but my favourite westernised chingchong food is probably prawns with peas. I don't think they even eat it in any part of China and I've never seen it on American menus. It's prawns/shrimp stir-fried with ginger and lots of peas then topped off with a little seafood stock thickened with cornstarch. At the end, eggs are scrambled into the sauce, almost like egg-drop soup. It's served over rice or noodles and that's it. Super simple, but super good.

If I have to go with Americanised Chinese exclusively, I'd say... either orange beef or general tso's chicken.

Chinese doughnuts A.K.A deep fried dough balls coated with sugar

Fake crab with some kind of cream cheese and onion and a layer of baked cheese on top
Also crab rangoons
I would say pork dumplings but I don't know how americanized that is

>>6742727
>americanized

so before i hide the thread i was just wondering if any meal that includes rice can be considered to be "ching chong".

because i eat a fair bit of rice and i don't think that i can call it 'asian food'. it's just food that includes rice.

but anyway, i'm not american so i guess i'm not allowed to post in this thread. bye.

>>6745861
>if any meal that includes rice can be considered to be "ching chong".

Of course not. There are plenty of dishes using rice that have nothing to do with China. Italian risottos and and number of Indian dishes come to mind.

And there are plenty of Westernized-Chinese dishes that have nothing to do with rice.

>>6745835
Pork dumplings are super Chinese, but other cultures have them too. Do Americans have their own take on dumplings though? Like putting ketchup in the filling?

source: am Chinese

>>6745868
The ones that get sold frozen are always a meat + green combo, most often either pork and cabbage or chicken and chive

The ones in buffets or restaurants are also either pork or chicken

>>6742727
fish and chips

Chicken with curry sauce. I'm not really a fan of curry that tastes sweet from coconut milk but this stuff is just a sauce with a shitton of spices in it or something.

>>6745868
I don't think we have anything too original but it's common for asian restaurants to have jiaozi/gyoza with pork or chicken. I went to a chinese restaraunt at a casino that actually had steamed pork buns but they didn't taste too good, they were all dough with almost no filling.

>Like putting ketchup in the filling?
Chef Boyardee ravioli is pretty close to that

>>6745931
don't you insult my boyardee man

>>6745868
probably buried in our history somewhere, but for the most part we just stole pasties and dumplings from everyone else.

>>6742727
Motherfucking sweet and sour pork.

>mfw went to a slightly less shitty Asian takeout for once and was shocked to discover that it's supposed to contain vegetables.

Beef fried rice. Crab rangoon. Mongolian beef. Sesame chicken/orange chicken.

God damn crab rangoon is too fucking good.

>>6745868
I don't think American cuisine has any traditional stuffed dumpling. Just dough-ball-type dumplings.
On the other hand, I don't think (butt correct me if I'm wrong ChinAnon), Chinese cuisine has any dough-ball-type dumplings, does it?

>>6742727
OMG I LOVE PORK FRIED RICE.

the only thing that ruins it s if the pork is somehow too dry, blue or tough.

>>6746285
>American cuisine
You sure ?

>>6742727

>It should have no peas

Absolutely. Fucking peas. Disgusting.

>>6743897
>HK chicken-and-saltfish fried rice
my nigga

>>6746291
I don't think American cuisine has any traditional stuffed dumpling. Just dough-ball-type dumplings.

Is cow tripe an authentic Asian food?

I love me some salted, steamed cow tripe.