/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6806815
What do you order, /ck/?

>>6806826
Forgot pic

SePA-style pork yakka/pork yat is the best.

>dat tomato sauce
>dat roast pork
>dem onions
>dem lo mein noodles

NOLA-style yat can go suck a shit.

>>6806834
What's yat? /flyover/ here

>>6806842
In the Delaware valley, it's basically Chinese spaghetti. At its most basic, it's Chinese-style tomato gravy, meat and onions on noodles but it's occasionally got some other veg added to it, too.
In the gulf area from New Orleans to Tampa, it's a noodle soup with the consistency of hot-and-sour but neither hot nor sour. It's not made with tomato, either.

I don't know why it's not common elsewhere.
Neither are beef-and-onion rolls, now that I think about it. It's basically a steak sandwich (cheesesteak without cheese) stuffed into an eggroll skin and deep-fried.

>>6806831
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2giwC3AGy8
obvious answer

>>6806859
The ones with broth inside or no?

>>6806815
What does pic related peking duck taste like? Never had it but apparently there's a place in town that roasts theirs fresh daily

>>6806891

duck is a very, VERY oily meat.

>>6806815
No Chinese food for me, too spicy.

>>6806909
>American Chinese food
>spicy

Just order cashew chicken you pansy

>>6806891
It's awesome

these are GOAT dim sum

>>6806909
not canton chinese food, you might be eating another region

>>6806891
man.. it is amazing, I prefer it with rice than the little flour wraps. I am sure you can get some duck rice there with bok choi, classic dish

>>6806831
If I could only have 3..
14, 23 and 30 to finish

>>6806933
Does it taste like turkey but richer? Is it gamey?

>>6806927
Are those chicken feet? Gross man I don't eat third world animal parts

>>6806950
it does have a richer taste than chicken or turkey, you could say its gamey but its more flavorful. its greasy but its delicious

>>6806930
I dont think so. I just find Chinese food has too much spice in it for me.

>>6806968
Do you mean spicy like capsaicin or just in the sense of strong flavors?

>>6806951
>implying
Chicken feet is probably the best cut of the chicken
No joke

>>6806831
where's muh shu mai

>>6807023
the second one. Its too spicy for me, same with indian food like tandoori chicken

>>6807047
There's no meat on them. It's just eating skin and collagen. They're nothing special

>>6807057
... number 05 is shu mai...

Mongolian Beef as long as there are only green onions in it.

>>6807247
For the record "spicy" almost always means hot as in capsaicin, at least in American english.

American here, there's a ton of chinese food that isn't spicy at all, but definitely has strong flavors. Fried rice and beef broccoli, for example, aren't spicy at all.

We'd just say "strongly flavored" for stuff like that.

>>6806831
Not enough stuff on that menu.

ORDER UP ANONS

>>6807536
Waiter, what is XO sauce and how am I supposed to say it?

>>6807613
http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/08/chichis-chinese-xo-sauce.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO_sauce

Literally just pronounced EX OH

It's like a cross between fish sauce and marmite

>>6807536
I'll take some bbq pork buns and bbq pork puffs with green tea pudding for dessert

>>6807644
fish sauce, marmite, and chili paste more like

>>6807656
How would you like your pork buns, sir? Steamed, baked, or pan-fried?

>>6807644
Neat. Thanks.

>>6807703
No problem friend. It's nasty though.

>>6806815
Was recently in China, authentic Chinese>American Chinese confirmed

>>6807319
Couldn't tell without being able to see the roe.

This thread is upsetting me because I just moved to a town with no dim sum and it's my favorite food ;w;

>>6807939
Iktf

No dim sum worth eating here either :(

I've more or less nailed how to make char sieu pork, though I think if I used fruit wood chips and actually bbqed it, as oppose to oven roast it, it would be perfect.
Now to learn how to make the bao pastry. Welp.

I ordered two boxes of chinese food! arrives in 10mins i think

LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS

>>6806815
Toss-up between general tso chicken and the sweet and sour chicken or tempura whatever it's called. Oh and that fuckin RICE. Man if I could figure out how to make sweet and sour chicken and fried rice that would be SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

>>6809626
you can, just cant be fucked deep frying food EVER, all that effort just to make 1 piece of deep fried chicken. And the bloody fryer will let you fry 6 pieces max. PAINN

>>6806815
>>6809608

>tfw you can't recreate the taste of fried rice

Is it really just chicken broth, tumeric and a ton of MSG?

>>6809652
Idk what fried rice you guys have in the USA, but fried rice is kinda casual tier so I only get it at the cheap shops.

It's pretty much a big ass wok flame, special sauce made of chicken broth, soysauce, and other shit.

I like home made fried rice, try get some smoked ham shaved, spring onion, quarter onion, egg. Soysauce, garlic. Fry that up to make simple fried rice.

I went to China once. Did you know they don't call it "Chinese food" there? They just call it "food."
Silly Asians! That's Chinese food, not normal food!

>>6806831
can i get a number 5

>>6809972
In France, they call it le Chinese food.

Egg rolls are my jam.

>>6810324

>>6809652

>chicken broth
>tumeric
>MSG

Where the fuck did you get this idea? I think the taste you're thinking of is the "wok hei", which comes from the rice being tossed over a big ass flame. Sadly it can't really be replicated in a home kitchen.

>>6806831
Probably 09, 11, 08, 02, 05, 24, and then I'd order off their secret menu none of you gwai lo would know about

:^)

>>6807932
Of fucking course, you are talking about the top notch cuisine of several ancient countries and tribes. Even villages have their own unique special cuisine.
Good of you to realise.
>tfw no one outside China understands even a speck of what Chinese food really is

There was a dish I had at a chinese restaurant on a trip that I'd never seen anywhere else.

It was shrimp and seafood extender, tempura fried, with a white sauce that I don't THINK was lobster sauce. Does anyone have any idea what it might have been? I want to try making it one day, and not having to experiment would probably save me a lot of money in fake crab meat.

I enjoy the fuck out of general tsos. Even though I know it only exists here it's fucking delicious
The place here loads it up with veggies too,they do a 5$ lunch bowl that must be half a pound of food. When I worked construction that shit was my mid week oasis

>>6810533

Most likely mayo shrimp. Google it cause 4chan thinks the links are spam.

I tried making shrimp in a sriracha sauce today, the sauce was 100% spot on exactly what I was aiming for but not much flavour went into the shrimp

Is there any way to get the shrimp to absorb more flavour?

I was thinking marinating it but it was a butter based sauce so not sure if that would work

>>6810705
Have you considered using corn starch.

You sauce was probably watery and by making it thicker, the sauce clings to the shrimp and makes it more delicious.

>>6810713
Remember to heat it to above a simmer so that the starch can properly thicken. And don't just dollop in a spoon of corn starch or you're looking at lump city, make a slurry with just a little bit of liquid and then add that into the sauce.

When you find the right place there's so much great stuff it's hard to choose a favorite. The one I usually make at home is orange chicken. In fact I might start thawing out some thighs to use tomorrow.

>tfw Chinese and hate dim sum

Then again I dislike Cantonese food. Shit is disgusting.

Szechwan cuisine > any regional Chinese stuff aside from Cantonese > Cantonese

>>6810705

There's nothing wrong with using a butter based sauce as a marinade. Or you could simply make a version of the sauce without the butter and use that for the marinade.

Coconut Shrimp, or whatever you call it. I could eat this stuff by the bucket.

I've been on a big sesame chicken kick lately however.

Lemon chicken or orange chicken. Omg soooooo good :D

Tfw Chinese food is great because it is massive portions of delicious food for fairly low cost.

Tfw Chinese food will never be considered "cuisine" unless it becomes high costs for tiny portions and mediocre flavor.

>>6810713
>>6810933

Ill look into starch thanks that sounds like a good idea

>>6811296

Making the sauce without butter as a marinade is a really good idea i cant believe I never thought of it, thanks for that

>>6811402
I'm assuming you're talking about Americanized Chinese take-out, in which case it's generally not considered high-end cuisine since a lot of it's flavor is derived from just adding a shit ton of grease, sugar, salt, and/or MSG.

I've seen a lot of authentic Chinese restaurants and even some Americanized interpretations of it (that aren't Panda Express tier) that actually get a lot of good reviews.

>>6806927
>muh wild and exotic food
Fuck off,I tried those a couple of times and they are simply bland,they have almost no taste of their own,they just taste like the Sauce they come in and the texture is boring too.
The only reason you pretend to like it is because it makes you feel special.

>>6811448
This
Americans love chinese food because it's sweet and Fat

>>6806815
>mah nigga chef
I love snow peas.

Had some beef with carrots, broccoli and snow peas in a wok yesterday.

>>6811574
Speak for yourself, shrimp and vegetable master race here.

broccoli beef

>>6806815

the number 8

>>6811709
What's number 8?

>>6806815
Mu Shu Beef

>>6811574

Actually you have it backwards. Chinese take out dishes are derivatives of classic dishes that were altered to suit the tastes of Amerifats. Same as Olive Garden tier "Italian" food.

>>6811778
Another foreigner obsessed with America. If I took a piss in a bush, it would make headlines in your country.

>>6811808
yeah but only because you either shot or sent to jail for sexual abuse on children because a school was in line of sight of the bush.

>>6811764
Looks like chicken

>>6811823
It probably is. Google image search.

>>6811808

I'm American you hillbilly fuck

>>6811820
What's funny is there have been more school shootings outside of the U.S. than in the U.S.

The media doesn't want to tell you about that though. They'd prefer to keep everyone ignorant and attack those who are legally allowed to possess firearms.

>>6811866
LOL, yeah. Tell me another story.

>>6811873

I'm sorry that you're fat as shit, try laying off the take out and eating a salad instead.

>>6806831
I'm gonna set this as my new wallpaper.

>>6811712
>>6811709
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22EHOmtWNwI

>>6811888
Proof positive you're a foreign POS.

>>6811778
sorry I wasn't clear, that's what I meant. I watched a documentary on General Tso's chicken and the original dish ended up less sweet and totally different from american tastes. Most average quality chinese food was invented or heavily altered by the chinese immigrants when they came to the US.

I like general tso's chicken its got some spice to it which is what I like.