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So I've never had authentic Chinese food and I hear it's good, so I want to know where to start. Which region has your favorite cuisine, and what are some of your favorite dishes?

I live in New York, right outside of NYC. I understand that there are at least 5 Chinatowns, with different parts of China represented in them.

If any of you are familiar with Chinese food in New York, then I would love some recommendations.

>> No.10854399

And can someone explain the difference between Canto, Fuzhou, Sichuan, and Shanghai cuisine? Which is the most popular in the US (for Chinese customers and foodies)?

>> No.10854435

I've found Canto is more egg noodles, beef etc borderline Malaysian
Sichuan is normally referred to because of sichuan peppers, anything on a western menu called "Sichuan" is hot
Shanghai is more westernised using sugars etc like Kung Pow chicken etc but lots of street foods there
Fuzhou is lots of soups and glass noodles mixed with farmer tier stuff, chicken feet etc

>> No.10854439

>>10854435
Which is one is most revered by Chinese people?

>> No.10854453

>>10854439
What do you mean "revered"?
Depends where they're from I would think, is pretty big place with big provincial differences, especially near borders

>> No.10854456

>>10854453
Which one is most popular outside of its own borders?

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>>10854456
Shanghai stuff is obv. the most popular with westerners
As for what Chinese like, idk

>> No.10854476

>>10854456
Sichuan

>> No.10854553

>>10854456
It's fairly regionalized. People eat their own style, but individual dishes can be very widespread. I had a couple of international student friends (I'm a 2nd gen from northeast myself) and they didn't really know the foods my family eats. The canto guy hated spicy stuff, and that probably applies to most people from that region. Restaurants will specialize in one food, so instead of seeing a szechuan restaurant like in the states, there were a lot of food places that would specialize in one dish, like dan dan mian, or hot pot, clay pot rice, dumplings, etc. You gotta remember food traditions are pretty saturated, so people in one region won't give a shit about another's cuisine unless one dish really impresses. Check out the wikipedia page for the 4 great cuisines plus 4 not-as-great cuisines of china.

>> No.10854568

>>10854553
What part of China are your parents from? What are some things you like?

>> No.10854577

>>10854399
Most popular is Cantonese, followed by Sichuan.

Shanghainese has become more popular recently with soup dumplings. Fujian food is not popular at all. You'll only find it in Flushings or in the West Coast.

>> No.10854582

>>10854577
Do you like Fujianese?

>> No.10854586

For those of you who like different world cuisines, how would you say Chinese compares to Mexican and Indian?

>> No.10854594

>>10854384
You're going to want to go to Flushing. That's got some of the best restaurants, bakeries, and cookeries for authentic Chinese in the area.

>> No.10854599

>>10854594
I've heard a lot of good things about Flushing, but I also don't want to write off the other Chinatowns.

>> No.10854606

>>10854599
Even if there are others, I'm speaking from experience. I've had dim sum in Flushing and I also got roped into a Cantonese wedding dinner there, both were outstanding.

Check it out.

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>>10854568
The only uniquely dongbei food I like and make occasionally is pickled cabbage and ribs stew. I also like glazed potatoes and guo bao rou. Pic related is a general northern thing, and basically a burrito.

>> No.10854612

>>10854582
It's not my favorite tbqh. I prefer spicy and earthy foods

>> No.10854615

>>10854384
>so I want to know where to start
>I live in New York, right outside of NYC

holy shit, anon. instead of asking a thousand questions on a burmese can collecting site to a bunch of sperglords, just fucking go and eat some food. depending where outside nyc you are, pick one of the three chinatowns (not 5: flushing, les, sunset park) that is convenient to you and go to some place like eater/thrillist/gothamist, etc and pick out some places that look good, maybe with a video to show you something in particular.

amazing how this site still brings in new crops of dummies that couldn't find their asshole without a map.

or just go to one of the various branches of x'ians famous and get some szechuan in your life.

>> No.10854617

>>10854586
Better than Mexican not as good as Indian

>> No.10854620

>>10854615
There are 5.

Manhattan Chinatown, Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, Elmurst, and Flushing. Avenue U in Sheepshead Bay is becoming a Chinatown too

>> No.10854621

>>10854617
are you judging off high quality, traditional mexican food or random tex-mex stuff?

I love Indian food, but I personally like Mexican a little more.

>> No.10854623

>>10854621
Traditional Mexican food, I'm not actually a huge fan of Latin American food in general

>> No.10854627

>>10854620
>Bensonhurst
bullshit. it's just a branch of the sunset park one that spread out throughout all of southern bk
>Elmurst
also bullshit. again, just another extension of the flushing one that's spilled into corona and jackson heights.

being a pedantic dumbfuck is why you're on 4chan at 4am asking randoms intricate details instead of just behaving like a normal human and going to these places to get some fucking food later this week

>> No.10854633

>>10854627
There are over 30k Chinese immigrants in Bensonhurst, it is a real Chinatown now whether you like it or not.

Also, Elmhurst doesn't even border Flushing

It's one of the most Chinese heavy neighborhoods in the whole city

>> No.10854662

>>10854633
can confirm, i grew up in the bensonhurst/dyker-heights area.

>> No.10854665

>>10854633
they're all part of the same ones that i initially mentioned that later spread out. calling them different is fucking retarded like you.

and elmhurst borders corona, which is literally what i just told you about >>10854627
>that's spilled into corona
they all fucking started out in one neighborhood, then spread out to other parts of that boro - usually the next stop down the subway line.for example, in bk, this is why brooklyn's sunset park is the og, and every hood south and east of it now has thousands of chinese people in it.

stop pretending this is some giant fucking worldwide safari and go eat some food, you fucking moron. pick a spot that's nearby to whatever transport is convenient and start trying some shit - there are close to five figures worth of chinese restaurants in nyc. fucking pick one and eat

>> No.10854686

>>10854665
Elmhurst is way more Chinese than Corona, so that doesn't even make sense. It's more like Elmhurst spilled into Corona

>> No.10854689

>>10854662
It's funny how that chunk of Brooklyn is stereotyped as being Italian, when in reality there are a ton of Chinese, Eastern European, Mexican, etc. and the Italian population has been dwindling.

>> No.10854699

>>10854689
there are zero italian americans left in little italy. that is not a phenomenom unique to bk

>> No.10854705

>>10854699
Of course, but I thought that one was more obvious.

People will say "Belmont in the Bronx is the real Little Italy", but it's mostly just shops for Italian-Americans from the suburbs as well as some million year old Italians/Italian-Americans who refuse to leave.

>> No.10854738

>>10854686
corona was moderately crowded with it's own ethnic group (latinos) in the 80s and 90s when flushing really started expanding. it's also smaller, so there's less population. elmhurst was the spot where generally more affluent taiwanese immigrants moved to, where the nice homes were sold by old wops and guineas. azns are, iirc, the 2nd biggest demographic in corona behind latinos and just ahead of blacks

you're still arguing incorrect semantics about this shit instead of realizing there's no fundamental difference between elmhurst/jackson heights/corona & flushing and sunset park & bensonhurst/dyker heights/borough park/gravesend/sheepshead bay.

>> No.10854764

>>10854738
I'm sure Asians are the second largest demographic in Corona. I don't really see any black people there except for Lefrak City and parts of North Corona where some old timers remain.

You're basically arguing that there are no differences within boroughs and that's just not true.

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>>10854764
ok you stupid putz, you go on overcomplicating your imaginary world out there where you have to figure out from even more possibilities when you're literally too stupid to even hop on whatever lirr/metro north is near you and going to get some fucking food. you continue shitposting about the overwhelmingness of this shit instead of doing what every normal human being in this world would do, which is finding a restaurant and going to eat.

i'm closing and hiding this thread because you're literally too stupid to waste any more time on. i've replied 5 fucking times, each time telling you how stupid you are being and how the only way to find this shit out is to fucking eat something, and instead of even taking that along the path of "where well should i eat", you went with "burdur the same immies from the same province in china have fundamental differences because their zip codes are two off from each other". fuck, you're dumb.

there's literally no difference between going to the "chinatown" in bay ridge or the "chinatown" in bensonhurst. it's gonna be the same mix of dudes who expanded out from the same fucking spots in sunset park, just a few more stops down the d/n/r lines because that's where affordable housing was available.

go out to eat or keep on being a dumbfuck agonizing over comparing indian, mexican and chinese cuisine like it has the slightest bearing on anything. or just kys. deuces.

pic related. go and get some of this shit. or not. idiot.

>> No.10854802

Protip, anything above $2 isn't authentically chinese

>> No.10854804

>>10854384
Go to China.

>> No.10854886

Sichuan food is the most popular and anyone telling you other is a tard. Here are some good dishes:

hot pot, ma la xiang guo, liang mian, liang pi, dan dan mian, mao xue wang, shui zhu yu, shui zhu niu rou

>> No.10854940

>>10854384
>live in NYC
>hasn’t had any authentic Chinese food yet
Did you just move here?

>> No.10854947

>>10854627
>Elmhurst an extension of Flushing
How? It’s too fucking far away.

>> No.10854955

i Chinese food in China that was under $2 it was pretty good but nothing special

>> No.10854966

>>10854439
None, people from different provinces have their rivalries just like folk from california and texas will shit talk each other.

>> No.10855167

>>10854955
that's how you know it's authentic chinese. cheap, pretty good but nothing special.

>> No.10855172

WHICH REGION OF CHINA INVENTED PORK FRIED RICE? THATS MY FAVORITE REGION