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How do all Chinese restaurants taste exactly the same?

Do they all follow the same cookbook or buy ingredients from the same place or what?

>> No.4076354

ancient chinese secret

>> No.4076353

>>4076346
You eat Chinese Restaurants? That's weird. But they do use the same ingredients. It's called bricks and cement.

>> No.4076355

There is actually more of a difference then you'd think but most people don't notice because if you're an American eating Chinese food you're probably just shoveling sticky sauce covered pieces of chicken into your mouth without thinking about the taste much.

>> No.4076356

Cheap as fuck chinese take outs usually use frozen stuff that's pretty much same between all places.

>> No.4076357
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oh man i love those steamed buns

TOO BAD THE AMERICANIZED ONES TASTE LIKE SHIT

>> No.4076359

>>4076357

what do the real ones taste like?

>> No.4076362

>>4076346
>all Chinese restaurants taste exactly the same

Where do you live? There's a lot of variety in my area.

>> No.4076363

>>4076362

San Francisco bro.

I'm betting I have plenty more variety than you do, but it's still all the same.

>> No.4076367

>>4076363
>San Francisco

They probably all buy their ingredients from the same places, and most of the owners and cooks are probably related and share recipes.

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>>4076353
The Chinese Restaurants in New Mexico have a decidedly muddy aftertaste. Must be something in the adobe.

>> No.4076370

Cheap places actually are using the same things; frozen shit from distributors. All places are only showing you the crap: real Chinese food that Chinese people eat doesn't even resemble the sauce+ chicken+ rice that you order. The good food that they actually care about isn't advertised because white people wouldn't like it.

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>>4076359
well the ones in china dont taste like canned food, and they are a lot more rich in flavor

thats the difference

>> No.4076382

there must be like one big chinese food distributor

every place is the same unless you go to a high end place where they actually make their own stuff

>> No.4076391

>>4076346
FUCK YEAH, BAO!!

>> No.4076518

Ever notice how different Chinese places around town even have the same menu items?

>> No.4076526

Its called The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, all places use the same book

>> No.4076555

>>4076346
if they are from China and true chef. Chinese chefs have license to keep their quality.

>> No.4076556
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4076556

Because 90% of /ck/ is poor as fuck and lives in a run down suburb where the local chinese restaurant is run by low class chinese refugees who were smart enough to know that the locals wouldn't know the difference anyway.

>> No.4076557

I'm actually convinced that a good portion of these generic chinese places, i.e. ones with names that include hunan, wok, dragon, "number 1", 1, etc., are really all owned by the same company in China and this company sends employees to random cities in the US with a randomly generated store name using the very wordbank as some evil plan to co-opt americans to be even more dependent upon china.

>> No.4076570

>>4076518
It's actually the same even by state! I once went to another state and the menu was so similar and the food the same in every way. Some places may vary in the way they prepare things though.

>> No.4076572

>>4076557
so thats why there is a chinese restaurant in every fucking shitty smalltown all over the world?
there are no chinese communities in any of them and there is no reason for the chinese to have heard of the town, or to want to move there, but still, restaurants pop up and keep on running forever,

>> No.4076576

I went around Richmond BC comparing various BBQ Pork Buns. The worst is Maxims (avoid Maxims for anything but that puri puri.) Best is that bakery in Aberdeen.

Langley Farm Market is usually good, although once I got a bad one that was just gristle.

>> No.4076580

there's this great mom & pop chinese place i go to that looks like any other generic chinese restaurant, but their food is awesome (the chicken & beef are clearly fresh, the general tso's is hand breaded, different sauces actually taste different, etc.).

it's also the cleanest restaurant i've ever seen.

>> No.4076584

>>4076572
exactly

it's an international mystery

>> No.4076588

>>4076370
"Real" chinese food is pig disgusting, americanized chinese is way better.

>> No.4076598

That's weird, almost every chinese place I have been to and all the ones in my city have a rather large difference between them. It can be rather frustrating as you need to eat around to learn the best items on the menu and there can be a difference between restaurants. An excellent dish at one place might suck at another, or be cooked completely differently.
Many places also seem to have slightly different menus. Especially with the appetizers. Guess your places just suck.

My favorite dish is cold sesame noodles. I usually use it as a test to check the differences between restaurants, as I have gotten completely different presentations, qualities, sauces, and toppings for it from places right next to each other. I have gotten some weird additions and shitty sauces or noodles from some places. One place even had pickles in it, I hated that.

>> No.4076626

How do all american restaurants taste exactly the same?

Do they all follow the same cookbook or buy ingredients from the same place or what?

>> No.4076639

>>4076626
O only know that I like Ruby Tuesdays.

>> No.4076654

Really, OP? Where do you live? Few of the Chinese restaurants in my area even offer the the exact same menu items let alone taste alike.
Of course, the standard items are offered at each (lo mein, mei/mai fen/fun, General Tso etc), but they vary considerably one place to the next. Beyond the standards, few of them share items. One place may have beef and yu choy with black bean sauce and the next not but will offer shrimp-stuffed aubergines/eggplants instead and the next one will offer saltfish-and-chicken-fried rice but the one following will not but offer ham-and-tomato fried rice instead.
In Chinatown itself, there are, besides Chinese restaurants, numerous other Asian cuisines, each generally run by Chinese (usually from Guangdong). Every Viet place in Chinatown has a menu identical to every other Viet place in Chinatown and their dishes all taste alike. The Chinese food, though... not at all.

>> No.4076659

>>4076588
Fuck you, you're full of shit. I love eating homemade Chinese food at my friend's house. Mainly because they're from Sichuan.

>> No.4076668

>>4076659
Goddamn Chinaboos, I know you don't actually like their crap.

>> No.4076673

>>4076659
>sichuan
>not cantonese

>> No.4076691

>>4076346
But they don't. Chinese restaurants are a good example of how the details matter in cooking. One place can offer the same dish but make it much much better.

>> No.4076745

Real answer: They don't all taste the same but a lot of Chinese takeout places buy their supplies from giant food service supply companies so taste is likely to conform. All you need is a few thousand dollars and a service supply company will outfit you with all the supplies you need to start a Chinese take-out place.

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>>4076668
better to be a chinaboo than a fuckign weeaboo cunt

japanse food has no flavor or tastes like shit

get the fuck out off this thread and go to a ramen thread

>> No.4076773

>>4076367
lol. i remember i was at a chinese restaurant and asked what they put in their sesame sauce and they got all angry and wouldn't tell me

>> No.4076774

>>4076767

look at this mad self-hating weeb

you sound like one of those gay bashing preachers

>> No.4076779

>>4076518
yeah, all their menus are printed out in the same format too. it's got to be some asian collusion going on

>> No.4076781

>>4076588
This.

I live with a Chinese guy and on the menu tonight he's having pigs ears dipped in soy sauce. What the fuck?

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>>4076774
weeb

>> No.4076798

>>4076375
because China is renowned for it's food quality and hygienic standards...
Nothing more ignorant than a westernized Chinese person talking up their homeland.
Let me explain something to you: China is a shit hole that sacrifices it's own people and environmental future in order to make a quick buck on the back of western opulence. The Chinese people are manipulated to go a long with it due to vague aspirations of national pride and global standing.
Westernized Chinese are the worst. They enjoy life in a western country whilst constantly claiming their homeland is superior and conveniently ignoring their brethren back home who are treated as slaves for the benefit of the few.
It's fucking pathetic.

>> No.4076799

>>4076668
>>4076767
Who exactly are chinaboos?

I have met chinese people and for a while they still believe in all the crap that their are taught in China and all the brainwashing from the government but after some time outside China they start to realize how the news in China are different to the news everywhere else in the World. They also start finding out about all the censorship and how people who tried to do things right were tossed in jail or worse.

>> No.4076803

>>4076767
>not chinaboo = weaboo
chinaboo logic

>> No.4076806

>>4076799
Oh, I think
>>4076798
answered my question.

>> No.4076861

oh boy i want to insert my penis in that bun

it looks so good

>> No.4076888

>>4076798

I don't believe in the superiority of China, but it's not like America is free from lack of quality control and food standards. Mad Cow disease? Salmonella outbreaks? Plastic chips found in ground beef. Problem is, you're comparing two different countries at two different points of development. China is still in the early stages to adapting to large scale consumerism for it's huge population. Also, it's not like the Chinese people don't care about food safety, that's why they let news of the outbreaks get out and punish those responsible with the death penalty, like in the case of the tainted milk. I'm sure our supermarkets are a billion times better than any Chinese supermarket, but on a local level, from village to village, small-scale production, I wouldn't doubt if the quality of produce and livestock was on an equal level with anything around here. When's the last time you had fresh fresh caught fish right out of the water, minutes before you ordered your meal?

Also, watch Food Inc.

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4076891

Everybody in this thread:

Have you ever seen this truck? Now you know why all chinese food tastes the same.

>> No.4076904

>>4076888
I consider China as it is in its industrial revolution. The way they thread their workers, disregard of human rights, polution and all that shit. Let's see how they turn out in 50years
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.
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and them machines take control of the World and all this become pointless

>> No.4076924

>>4076891
also this link : http://www.ucraa.org/

most but not all american chinese restaurants are a member of the UCRAA, which provides them all with resources and services, which means that a lot of the food/technique/supplies etc. is going to be the same

>> No.4076928

Sysco

aside from the usual hole in the wall shit-tier chink crap joints, I finally came across a fairly decent place in Clinton CT, but it's pricey.

dad eats garbage, so he only likes egg foo young - I tried it and it was surprisingly good.

if only they'd open a rijsttafel near me.

>> No.4076997

>>4076557
This makes too much sense and now I'm freaked out.

>> No.4077017

>>4076355
Mmm yeah, talk dirty to me

>> No.4077062

>>4076557
>>4076572
So MSG is really a mind controlling device!

Where is my tinfoil?

>> No.4077064

>>4076356
This.
I have friend who married a Chinese woman for some reason. She runs 'chinese food' kiosks at several locations (public markets, asian stripmalls, etc). Most of what she sells is just cooking frozen stuff bought in boxes from a seedy looking company in the dirty industrial district.
And you really don't want "real Chinese food", by example of the stuff I ate in China on a business trip. Most food was questionable (chew, swallow, don't-think-about-it-too-much-you-need-to-eat...).

>> No.4077083

>>4077064
~continuing~
There was good stuff, usually in the upscale places near major hotels and office buildings.
In the U.S. there is the same quality and better in actual fancy Chinese restaurants but the recipes tend to lack tendon, tripe, and other things you fastfooders are squeamish about (even though you are eating it in disguise anyway), and in general, even these fancy places, are a lot less spicy and less flavorful than everything back in China.

>> No.4077134

>>4077083
How are they better then, if they're less spicy and flavorful?

IMO, street food and hole-in-the-walls are better than the upscale places.

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>> No.4077196

>>4077134

Agreed. It also strongly depends on where he was. Shanghaiese food just isn't that good, with a handful of exceptions.

>> No.4077197

>>4076557
well now i'm paranoid there a "hunan wok" "golden panda" and a "golden dragon" by me.

>> No.4077211

>>4077197

See if you can find a place with a separate Chinese menu. That's the good shit.

>> No.4077221

>>4077211
>refuse and offal
>good shit

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>>4076359
the "real" ones taste like dog, or earwig honey, depending on the region... not every "authentic" ethnic food tastes better

>> No.4077337

Is that a steam bun with chilly or sauce? I wonder, what kind of sandwiches could you make by rolling something in dough and steaming it.

>> No.4077693

>>4076369
What's your opinion on ABC? I love it, but i'm not a picky eater either

>> No.4077700

>>4076557
thats funny because i had a local HUGE Chinese buffet open up and it was wholly staffed by Chinese who were brought in and lived in one big apartment building owned by the restaurant somehow.

>> No.4077704

>>4077700
>wholly staffed by Chinese who were brought in and lived in one big apartment building owned by the restaurant somehow.

AKA: slaves. And they came in a conteiner.

>> No.4077721

All the chinese food I've eaten is definitely a lot better than any jap food I've ever put in my piehole.

>> No.4077723

>>4077700
I think this is the trend for most chinese restaurants.

my parents use to own a chinese restaurant in north carolina; mostly staffed by family, and a few local folks, but mostly family.

>> No.4077724

>>4077721
that's because jap food you get at the mall is almost guaranteed to be made by chinks

>> No.4077727

>>4077724
There is also the issue of what is sold as "Japanese food" often doesn't have anything to do with real Japanese food. A good comparation would be like if in Japan someone put kamaboko on a bread and call it "German food"

>> No.4077729

>2012
>still eating chinese food instead of based taiwanese cuisine
shiggidddy diggitty.

>> No.4077735

>>4076576
Hell yeah Rich city represent
No but seriously, Aberdeen is the chillest mall ever. And Maxim's makes hella dece cakes man.

>> No.4077750

For anyone in the Mississauga/905 area in Canada, check out Red Lots. Best Shanghai chinese food I have ever had in my life. And im Chinese.

>preserved meat onion pancake roll
>cumin spiced ribs (fall off the bone)
>Hand stretched noodles with melt in your mouth brisket

>> No.4077755

>>4077303
i want to fuck dog eating girl

>> No.4077761

yum

>> No.4077799

MSG

>> No.4077820

You're going to shit restaurants.

>> No.4077823

>>4076370
As a white person who has eaten and liked both the Americanized stuff and the authentic stuff, shut the hell up.

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>>4076346
I don't think you've ever had good Chinese food.

>> No.4078284

>>4077723
My friend's uncle used to own one. Mostly staffed by family, they also lived upstairs above the restaurant.

Other places in the area I've noticed were staffed by a mix. A chunk of them were family, but they had a few outsiders. The one place where I went to college had a few Mexicans and a white blonde hair blue eye girl working there.

>> No.4078288

>>4077729
Actually, a large number of the Chinese restaurants in the states are run by Taiwanese immigrants.

>> No.4078290

>>4077303
Ever wonder if they feed their guard dogs the leftover dog meat?

>> No.4078297

>go out for "upscale" dim sum in nyc
>end up squishing fleas between courses

>> No.4078300

>>4078297

Which restaurant?

>> No.4078314

>>4078300
Jing Fong

>> No.4078495

I don't think it's true but then again I go to small mom and pop restaurants. Even between the buffets, while the food are the same menu item, the taste is different.

>> No.4078500

because all chinese people are the same

>> No.4078532

>>4076346
Love me some char sui bao. Here's my favorite recipe for making it homemade.

http://archives.starbulletin.com/97/04/09/features/request.html

>> No.4078551

There is a small family run chinese bakery near my home that I go to often. You can look into the back of the shop and see them making bread and pasteries. Nothing is better than a fresh pork bun from there.