Foo - Favorite chinese food

What are your favorite dishes to cook or have when you go out for Chinese?

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Kung Pao chicken. Hot and Sour soup. steamed rice. green tea. to go.

I'm a pork lo mein and spring roll whoooer.

General Tso's Chicken

If done properly, Egg Foo Yung.

Otherwise, probably sesame chicken or sesame potatoes.

I'm really more into Thai food (Panang or any "yum" style dish).

Dim Sum

Dim Sum
Can you be a little more specific. Dim-Sum just sort of mean 'appetizer' and there many, many types of dim-sum.

Cashew Chicken, Mongolian Beef, Shanghai Dumplings (I think), Crap Rangoon.

Uhhh, I like more but that's all that comes to mind.

Chicken with Broccolli
Steamed Pot Stickers

sweet and sour pork mm. I went to pei wei yesterday :D

Can you be a little more specific. Dim-Sum just sort of mean 'appetizer' and there many, many types of dim-sum.

I was going to say chicken feet, tripe and jelly-fish, but I thought better of it

Crab Rangoon
Crispy Fried Duck
BBQ pork buns (steamed or baked...either one is pure delish)
milk tea pearl drink (yeah not chinese, just generic asian...but still freaking delish)

I was going to say chicken feet, tripe and jelly-fish, but I thought better of it
That's kinda why I asked...I was wondering if you actually meant chicken feet or tripe. I tried and hated both....but I did try. I'll try anything once.

Bean curd with mixed vegetables.

Hot and sour soup, the kind thats really spicy and has TONS of bamboo shoots.
Pork chow fun
Won tons
White rice :)

See below

That's kinda why I asked...I was wondering if you actually meant chicken feet or tripe. I tried and hated both....but I did try. I'll try anything once.

Oh Dim Sum is my 'favorite' to order just because lots of the items (like chicken-feet) just seem like something that is exotic to the point of 'grossness'. I grew up in a boring Ontario town and I just like to spite my bland heritage now and then.

My favorite tasting Chinese food is a toss-up between crispy chicken or duck with orange sauce.

lo mein is one of my favs. I have never had dim sum though (and everyone is shocked)

Chicken with Chinese vegetables (with fried rice and a fortune cookie containing an incomprehensible message).

sum yong gai

sum yong gai

So you enjoy your woodworking eh?:D

Eggplant in Garlic Sauce
Mushu Pork with plum sauce

So you enjoy your woodworking eh?:D

It's the house specialty at Hung Lo's. :roflmao:

It's the house specialty at Hung Lo's. :roflmao:
Just don't order the Jimmy Carter special.

Buddhist faux sesame chicken (fake meat at a good Chinese restaurant is excellent and I know many people that prefer it to the real stuff), hot & sour soup with tofu and green tea.

Well, I'm well travelled in China, so I'll give my favorite foods from different parts of China:

Southwest: Over the Bridge Noodles
Northwest: a toss up between Kal Roe (Muslim "Barbecue") and Muslim Mien Pien (Muslim noodles with beef)
Tibet: Tsampa and Butter Tea
East: Wonton Soup
Beijing: Beijing Duck--scrumptios!

Actually I like roast duck, without sauce/gravy. Also, lobster in black bean sauce. Also, steamed fish where they sprinkle green onions and ginger on the fish, and pour hot peanut oil overall just before you eat.

I also forgot Beijing Duck for Beijing! It is some scrumptious stuff!

I also forgot Beijing Duck for Beijing! It is some scrumptious stuff!


Exactly. Most places here drown the duck in sauce/gravy. I prefer the skin crisp and the meat un-drowned.

Exactly. Most places here drown the duck in sauce/gravy. I prefer the skin crisp and the meat un-drowned.

Yeah, Beijing trained chefs cook it without the sauce and the sauce is an item you can dip the duck meat into. Believe it or not, I really like the head a lot. The last time I had it was in Xining (capital of the Qinghai province) and it cost about $30 for 8 of us. They were Beijing trained chefs/cutters and it was just like in Beijing--only about 1/3 of the cost.

Shrimp with lobster sauce

Sweet and sour pork - 1000 Post, yeah!

hk speciality: lobster fried with ginger, garlic and shallots topped with thick noodles

and "dong gua zhong" - soup cooked in a wintermelon

Cashew Chicken, Mongolian Beef, Shanghai Dumplings (I think), Crap Rangoon.

Uhhh, I like more but that's all that comes to mind.

Crap Rangoon?????? damn that doesn't sound good at all.

Guess what I'm eating?


http://www.dragonboat.co.nz/images/Roast-Duck.jpg

MMM DUCK!!!!

And crab rangoon....Mmmmmmmm

Dim Sum

*drool*

siu mai, ha chung, yu chi gao, that sticky rice stuff in a banana leaf, chicken feet...

no wait, I hate chicken feet.

This is tough..I like almost everything. I prefer my food very spicey though. One of the places I go to knows I like it hot, so they put some really frickin' hot stuff in my food and stood in the kitchen door and watched me eat it. After I cleaned the plate, I asked if I could have some of the hot stuff to take home. I loved it!! It was really good. But anyway, to back to the original question....I like low mein, terriyaki(sp) meats and egg drop soup is pretty good when done right.

I love asian restaurants. I love the asian market at both ends of the street where I live, and asian chicks are HOT.

asian chicks are HOT.

Dig THAT!!!

that sticky rice stuff in a banana leaf
Isn't that more of a Vietnameese thing?

A good Vietnamese girl I used to be good friends with used to get it for me all the time back in college because I loved it so much. It's called "Ba-ing Tek" or something like that.

This is tough..I like almost everything. I prefer my food very spicey though. One of the places I go to knows I like it hot, so they put some really frickin' hot stuff in my food and stood in the kitchen door and watched me eat it. After I cleaned the plate, I asked if I could have some of the hot stuff to take home. I loved it!! It was really good. But anyway, to back to the original question....I like low mein, terriyaki(sp) meats and egg drop soup is pretty good when done right.

teriyaki??

no wait, I hate chicken feet.

Can I have yours then? I love 'em!

This is tough..I like almost everything. I prefer my food very spicey though.

Chinese Muslim BBQ (Hui, Uyghur and Salar food) can be really spicy. In fact, I burnt my tongue in Xining (Qinghai province) a couple of weeks ago on a calroe sandwich where the spices had been poured on too thick. The Muslim Mien Pien (noodles with beef) give your mouth a lickin' too. I eat jalapeno's whole (I grew up on the US/Mexico border) and I can barely handle the stuff. Sichuan (I think we call is Shezhuan here in the US) food is also really spicy--though be sure to ask for the mouth numbing spice too so you can handle it a bit better (it literally deaden--in a mild way--the nerves in your mouth like novacaine temporarily--it's an interesting sensation).

Duck tongues, chicken feet, bbq gizzards and jellyfish.

There's a lot of authentic Chinese dishes we don't get in the States. There's a lot of scrumptuous seafood dishes that are light and tasty, unlike a lot of the deep-fried saucy stuff we get here. However, I do like the crispy battered shrimp dishes.

If you're ever in the LA area, you gotta check out the Ocean Star restaurant in Monterey Park (http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22monterey+park%22+%22ocean+star%22+restaurant&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2&x=wrt), simply the best!!! :) One of the few places that has fresh live shrimp, lobster and fish!

I can't stand chinese food anymore... its vietnamese, thai, or japanese for me.

You go first
Sorry, I didn't do that. My mistake.

Pork dumplings, with a dipping sauce of 1/2 soy, 1/2 vinegar with a liberal sprinkle of ginger oil.
Slightly pickled cucumbers and onions.
String beans with sesame seeds.
Peanuts.
Simmered veges (in season).
Stranded pork or chicken with a black bean sauce.
Sichuan duck hearts.
Local beer.

I was going to say chicken feet, tripe and jelly-fish, but I thought better of it
Yeah, what's with the chicken feet? Pretty disgusting watching women on the train get into one bag of preserved chicken's feet after another.

Isn't that more of a Vietnameese thing?

A good Vietnamese girl I used to be good friends with used to get it for me all the time back in college because I loved it so much. It's called "Ba-ing Tek" or something like that.
The sticky rice in a leaf thing is chinese, and based on some old legend about some prince that jumped in some lake, and nobody knew if he drowned or not, so they started making sticky rice wrapped in leaves and throwing them in the water so he wouldn't starve. Mostly in June, I think.