/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17235298]

Do you like authentic Chinese food?
If so, what are your favorite styles/dishes?

[Anonymous No.17235320]

steamed buns and moon cakes

I like it when food is wrapped up inside a dough and then cooked

[Anonymous No.17235324]

>>17235320
I love dumplings.

[Anonymous No.17235338]

>>17235298
Is that tripe?

[Anonymous No.17235343]

>>17235338
no, it's boiled fish

[Anonymous No.17235351]

>>17235298
General Tso’s

[Anonymous No.17235371]

Baozi and mantou. There's just something special about steamed bread

[Anonymous No.17235393]

Does every Szechuan dish have the same ingredients?
Some people shit on Cantonese for being "bland" but it seems like they have a greater variety of flavor profiles

[Anonymous No.17235423]

>>17235298
General tso's chicken, pork fried rice, crab rangoon, scallion pancake, beef teriyaki, mai tai.
I could go on, that's just my usual order.

[Anonymous No.17235491]

I'll eat forty of these fucking things, more if I'm drunk.

[Anonymous No.17235497]

I like general tsos chicken and crab puffs

[Anonymous No.17236171]

Cantonese roast meats are delicious

[Anonymous No.17236185]

>>17235343
I'm less excited now, but it still looks good.

>>17235491
And you better be drunk.

[Anonymous No.17236190]

>>17235298
Anything from Panda Express. Bourbon chicken, especially.

[Anonymous No.17236196]

>>17235298
I love me some dry hot pot. Also plain ol' hot and sour potato because I'm such a potato fiend.

>>17235371
Mantou with fermented tofu is amazing

[Anonymous No.17236207]

>>17235298
Sure there's a cool place a few miles from where I live that delivers good stuff, here's an interesting one, "pig ears in chile sauce." It's really good to watch a movie munching on those.

[Anonymous No.17236231]

>>17235298
Picrel. Had them make it Taiwan hot and now I understand why they worship their ancestors. Sweating like a whore in church, I communed with my long-dead grandmother.
Fantastic.

[Anonymous No.17236232]

>>17236196
"The Manitou" the was a real bizzaroworld movie, check it out if you haven't seen it.

[Anonymous No.17236240]

>>17236231
hahaha, I think you forgot the pic.

[Anonymous No.17236243]

>>17236231
Fuck me, forgot the pic

[Anonymous No.17236248]

>>17236243
That looks pretty good, I can deal with that.

[Anonymous No.17236256]

Yeah I like cantonese home style cooking and restaurant style food
Second favourite is szechuan
Szechuan is good cause there's fuchsia dunlop and wang gang and I'm cantonese so I just cook what I ate as a kid, idk about other cuisines

[Anonymous No.17236257]

>>17236243
I think that needs some beers but who am I to say?

[Anonymous No.17236287]

>>17236256
When your parents made chicken dishes, did they smash the chicken into 600 small bony pieces like Chef Wang does?

[Anonymous No.17236289]

>>17236231
not Chinese
>>17236243

[Anonymous No.17236309]

>>17236287
I'm not sure if that's just a szechuan thing because he cuts the pieces way smaller than my family ever did
Wouldn't mind trying it his way one day though

[Anonymous No.17236312]

>>17236289
China claims Taiwan, fren.
lrn2geopolitics

[Anonymous No.17236328]

>>17236309
He doesn't even take the backbone out, he smashes the length of the backbone with his cleaver leaving a bunch of 90% bone pieces

[Anonymous No.17236334]

>>17235298
Cantonese. I love a good steamed fish, especially if it's turbot or black bass. Claypot rice and Cantonese beef stew are also comforting.

[Anonymous No.17236350]

>>17236328
Just extra flavour I suppose
I'd find it too frustrating to eat though, I usually chop the backbone quite chunky when I cook

[Anonymous No.17236366]

Are these the types of people that complain about sardines having bones?

[Anonymous No.17236376]

>>17235298
has nothing to do with china... more with africa... i was looking up guinea pigs as pets on wiki and apparently they are eaten in africa.. anyone of you guys ever ate a guinea pig? lol

[Anonymous No.17236380]

>>17236376
South Americans like eating guinea pigs, I'd love to try one day

[Anonymous No.17236401]

>>17236380

it does sound amazing... still weird i had one as a pet lol

"Guinea pig, or cuy as it is known, is a delicacy. The meat is prized and tastes like a cross between duck and rabbit. When properly prepared, the meat of a guinea pig is rich, fatty, and flavorful, while the skin, when roasted over a hot fire, gives pork crackling a run for its money."

[Anonymous No.17236412]

>>17236350
I thought it was more of a poverty thing

[Anonymous No.17236580]

Fuck I miss getting $2 fried curry beef buns at the Chinese supermarket, biting a hole at the end and pouring in a spoonful of chili oil

[Anonymous No.17236595]

>>17236580
Also the pork jongzhi and siu mai at dim sum places

[Anonymous No.17236599]

>>17236595
zongzi fuck

[Anonymous No.17236611]

>>17236580
Um. Educate me. Please.

[Anonymous No.17236630]

>>17236595
Siu Mai and shrimp dumplings are the shit

[Anonymous No.17236635]

love some good singapore noodles but no cunt can make em properly.

[Anonymous No.17236735]

Do you guys like Chef Wang?

[Anonymous No.17236745]

>scan thread
>copypasta not found

[Anonymous No.17236928]

>>17236243
Fuck yeah, hotpot.

I've clocked a hotpot (using the chilli seeds as a tracer) going completely through my body in less than an hour and a half, get a load of that

[Anonymous No.17236937]

>>17236928
I thought digestion took like 36 hours

[Anonymous No.17236955]

>>17236937
It does when what you're eating doesn't contain about 6 tablespoons of whole minced chilli, plus chilli oil and szechuan peppercorns

[Anonymous No.17236967]

I make mapo tofu all the time. I have no asian groceries anywhere near me so I have to order lots of the ingredients online, but it’s totally worth it. I could eat that shit every day.

[Anonymous No.17236981]

>>17236967
Interesting, I've only had mapo at restaurants. Got a recipe?

[Anonymous No.17237115]

>>17236981
https://www.seriouseats.com/real-deal-mapo-dofu-tofu-chinese-sichuan-recipe
Seems kind of like a lot of ingredients but it comes together really quick

[Anonymous No.17237120]

I love century eggs a ton.

[Anonymous No.17237139]

I cook Chinese style Pork Belly twice a week, can never get tired of that shit
Anyone else love Pork belly? Very easy to make too

[Anonymous No.17237146]

>>17235298
I prefer Japanese food which is just Chinese food refined and perfected

[Anonymous No.17237164]

>>17237146
Nip food is literally Chinese food but blander and less meat, all downsides apart from being healthier

[Anonymous No.17237212]

>>17237164
Seethe more chang

[Anonymous No.17237220]

>>17237164
Way less variety too

[Anonymous No.17237222]

>>17235298

there is no such thing as authentic chinese food. i challenge you to go to any popular chinese buffet in your city or nearby major city. around half of the patrons will be asian families, and the servers will also be asian foreigners. american chinese food is the same as authentic asian food. No debate.

[Anonymous No.17237234]

>>17237212
I'm Ethiopian, I dated a Chinese girl though and I still like their food

[Anonymous No.17237244]

>>17237234
Not him but what Ethiopian food do you recommend?

[Anonymous No.17237252]

>>17237244
Go to any Ethiopian restaurant and their typical meal will be a plate of injera with various meat and veggie dishes around it. This is ideal if you're new to Ethiopian food and wanna try it for the first time. You tear off some injera and use it to scoop from the dishes. This way you can try like 4-5 different dishes at the same time. You really can't fuck it up

Injera is quite sour though it's an acquired taste, if you're new it might be better to add sour cream to the meat you're scooping with injera to make the tastes less intense

[Anonymous No.17237255]

These and $5 wonton noodle soups. I miss living near a chinatown

[Anonymous No.17237302]

>>17235298
I love dim sum but haven't been able to go for a while.

[Anonymous No.17237329]

>>17236231
>Taiwan hot
lol
So, like, bland as fuck? Outside of dumplings, which they've mastered beyond all others, Taiwanese food is basically Chinese cuisine prepared to Japanese tastes IE flavourless. It's a shame, too, cuz it's a lovely place with lovely people but holy shit, can I get some flavour with my beef noodle stew, please?

[Anonymous No.17237446]

>>17236256
I'm lazy and lactose intolerant, so I fucking love Chinese food, never have to fuck with dairy. Any good resources? Also, sounds weird but it's tasty if you don't mind things a little sweeter, I've been using 1:1 ketchup/oyster sauce for stir fry, generally if I'm having some veggies and rice with an egg.

[Anonymous No.17237452]

>>17235298

[Anonymous No.17237476]

Damn, now I'm craving mapo tofu now, shit.

[Anonymous No.17237754]

>>17235298
I made szechuan boiled beef hot pot with all the authentic ingredients and it was delicious, but they like it fricking oiley I tell you.

[Anonymous No.17237758]

>>17237452
>escalator
Huh?

[Anonymous No.17238089]

>>17237446
Ketchup is used in a lot of Chinese and Straits Chinese dishes. When I was a kid, one my favourite things was tomato, eggs and ham stir-fry, which includes ketchup as part of the sauce. I still make it from time to time.
And, obviously, there's also chilli crab which has copious amounts of ketchup.
So it's really not weird at all, no.

[Anonymous No.17238172]

>>17235298
>authentic chinese food
>cilantro
>peppers

[Anonymous No.17238547]

>>17238089
I found a recipe that uses tomatoes in egg drop soup and it's delicious. I'll have to try that stir fry, especially since I have a good place to get ham steaks.

[Anonymous No.17238628]

>>17237329
Taiwan is where 3 cup chicken and General Tso's comes from

[Anonymous No.17238633]

>>17237446
Their sweet and sour dishes are made with ketchup
>>17238172
Yes, retard. Both are extremely common

[Anonymous No.17238663]

>>17238172
Also
>salt
>MSG

[Anonymous No.17238809]

>>17238628
>general tso's chicken
>taiwan
A Taiwanese guy created it in America. It is unknown to Taiwan.
>3 cup chicken
And?

[Anonymous No.17238942]

>>17238809
I thought it came from actual Taiwan
But 3 cup chicken is very flavorful

[Anonymous No.17239239]

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[Anonymous No.17239265]

>>17235298
Yeah I used to date a Chinese girl from China and we'd go to all the places that reminded her of home.

Shanghai Chow Mein mogs all other types of Chow Mein.

but my favorite is probably Dong Po pork.

[Anonymous No.17239267]

>>17235423
lol

[Anonymous No.17239269]

>>17236243
I love little-penis-platter

[Anonymous No.17239392]

>>17239265
Did she give good handjobs?

[Anonymous No.17239406]

>>17239392
No, not really. She was tiny and had little dainty cold hands. It was like getting jacked off by a cool breeze.

[Anonymous No.17239496]

>>17237252
Can confirm Ethiopian is great, I've started going to one near me. The different flavours and textures of the meat and veggie curries were terrific, and the injera seems really light for a bread, didn't feel bloated after eating it at all

[Anonymous No.17239499]

>>17235491
Those look good. All the ones I've always seen are fly agaric red and look awful.

[Anonymous No.17239501]

>>17239406
Kek

[Anonymous No.17239520]

>>17236231
What is it though

[Anonymous No.17239594]

>>17239496
Did you find the injera to be very sour?

[Anonymous No.17239630]

>>17237329
>Taiwan is like a Japanese ripoff of China
Lol you are the most retarded motherfucker on 4chan right now.

[Anonymous No.17239798]

>>17236611
I can't find pics of them. They're just called "fried curry beef buns" in the bakery section at my local Chinese supermarket. It's a sweet donut-y fried bun with a savoury curry beef filling. It doesn't look like the usual baked pork bun.

[Anonymous No.17239896]

>>17239269
You might as well go for the poo-poo platter.

[Anonymous No.17239919]

>>17235298
Never had any authentic Chinese. Just the American versions that were made up here by people of Chinese decent. It's ok.
I only want to try one authentic dish called Beijin beef with noodles. Don't know if the recipe I found is legit or not.

[Anonymous No.17239921]

>>17239265
Might be similar to chicks from Brasil, they can order in Portuguese Brasilian so we get the best stuff.

[Anonymous No.17239935]

>>17239921
... sometimes its truly best to just shutup and let the chick do the ordering.

[Anonymous No.17239940]

>>17235298
Dog from a open air meat market

[Anonymous No.17239956]

>>17239940

[Anonymous No.17240133]

>>17237758
If that pic was made in 2015 or so, then it would make sense as western media that year and the one following reported about a kajillion times about people in China getting eaten or mauled by escalators. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's 100% true.

[Anonymous No.17240330]

>>17239594
Yeah, but pleasantly so

[Anonymous No.17240541]

>>17235298
I do enjoy cooming inside soft chinese puss, if that's what u mean.

[Anonymous No.17240611]

>>17235298
>authentic food

lmao I got into it with one of those "authentic" italian guys who claimed that his pizzas were authentically italian

>no buddy, we're in Canada, they're not authentically Italian.
>he screams about 424 years of family legacy and experience makes it authentic
>I tell him that anyone can read a cookbook and he should start a restaurant in Italy if he wants to be authentic.

[Anonymous No.17240703]

>>17240133
is it no longer a thing? You're talking like it was overly sensationalized, but I saw quite a few videos on /gif/ of chinese falling into escalators. like at least a hundred. and for multiple years after 2015 too

[Anonymous No.17240708]

>>17240611
>Italian friend never stops talking about his secret sauce recipe
>it has a secret ingredient that sets this sauce apart from any other, impossible for non-italians to replicate.
>he finally shows me
>it's sugar

[Anonymous No.17241280]

>>17239935
Oh yeah, she knew what was up. She wouldn't even use the menu and we'd always get extra stuff, like all you can eat soup and extra dumplings and stuff like that.

[Anonymous No.17241600]

just got some chop suey, gotta love chinese sausage. this place has been open at least 30 years.

[Anonymous No.17241618]

>>17237302
>rice rolls
yes plz
few places around me do a buffet style in dim sum but i've never been

[Anonymous No.17241787]

>>17236243
looks tasty

[Anonymous No.17241879]

>>17237758
have you not seen a single of the plehtora of rekt videos from china?
They build everything like fucking dogshit so it breaks and they die

[Anonymous No.17242238]

>>17240703
I don't hear about it or see endless articles about it in my news stream anymore so I would say that >>17240133 is right and it's not reported on by Western media anymore. If it's so commonplace, it makes sense not to bother reporting it anymore.

[Anonymous No.17242324]

>>17240611
Anon you might be clinically retarded. Should get that checked out.

[Anonymous No.17242389]

>>17235298
Most white people are afraid of authentic Chinese food because they think they're gonna get served bat soup/dog meat or some other crazy shit, and I can't blame them. But in case anyone ITT is curious, there is a world outside of the Jewish American (yes, most American Chinese food is a Jewish creation, look it up) 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", "garden", "station", "Express", and "Chopsticks" are gonna be your inauthentic Americanized 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, recognizable ingredients, and the spices are good to balance the meal. You can almost certainly 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.

[Anonymous No.17242393]

>>17242389
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 personal 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, but they gotta be good friends: if there's only one serving tongs and they're in use, 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 bit 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're too afraid to try, well here you go.

[Anonymous No.17242403]

>>17236312
They claim a lot of shit doesn't mean anyone takes it seriously

[Anonymous No.17242999]

>>17241879

[Anonymous No.17243004]

>>17235298
Spicy pork intestines are very good

[Anonymous No.17243818]

>>17242389
there are actually a lot of sweet, fried Chinese dishes. Lemon Chicken for instance, is an actual Cantonese dish

[Anonymous No.17243828]

>>17242393
I see what you're saying about dessert in China pretty often but it seems like they do actually have a lot of dessert food?
Like mooncakes and sweet bean pastries

[Anonymous No.17244049]

I like really fresh stuff, so scallion shrimp and ginger stir fry

[Anonymous No.17244405]

>>17242999
I actually think she's cute
Not in this angle though

[Anonymous No.17244494]

Which region of China has the best food?

[Anonymous No.17245396]

What are some good Chinese restaurants in New York?

[Anonymous No.17245422]

>>17235298
I don't really know shit about China but Hainan chicken is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.17245526]

>>17235298
Hunan.. It is worker food. I love it.

[Anonymous No.17245678]

>>17245422
Hainanese chicken rice?

[Anonymous No.17246582]

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[Anonymous No.17246681]

>>17242389
That tofu looks so good. And you're right about the names, the one authentic Chinese place near me is just a Chinese name.

[Anonymous No.17246700]

>>17235298
Crispy Fried Duck with Taro with moist duck wrapped in a blanket of mashed taro root.