And go

4/22/2012 7:32:12 PM

Pok Fly Lie

4/22/2012 7:33:09 PM

cat

4/22/2012 7:33:19 PM

Rice porridge with fermented cabbage


I'm 3/4 chinese and 1/4 khmer. I actually prefer thai and vietnamese foods over chinese.

Like rice noodles with fish sauce and other junk:


Or banh mi



[Edited on April 22, 2012 at 7:40 PM. Reason : ]

4/22/2012 7:34:51 PM

Beef and broccoli

4/22/2012 7:38:07 PM

^

4/22/2012 7:39:11 PM

beef and broccoli is boring

4/22/2012 7:41:33 PM

^ So what's the deal with Americanized Chinese food? From what I understand it's got a lot more sugar than real Chinese food, but is there anything you can get at a generic Chinese place in America that's more or less authentic?

4/22/2012 7:43:22 PM

General Tso's Chicken

America. We take your native dishes and inject them with freedom.

4/22/2012 7:47:34 PM

^^ I, too, would like to know this

4/22/2012 7:49:06 PM

Kung Pao beef

4/22/2012 7:52:25 PM

beef and broccoli
chicken and broccoli
moo goo gai pan

4/22/2012 7:54:47 PM

Anything not double fried is getting close to authentic.
Most stir fried dishes are authentic. A lot of chinese people eat various clear broth soups and basic stir fried vegetables with a little meat.
Real chinese food can be bland. Well, not really blad, they just have few ingredients.


That's baby bok choy with a little garlic.

Chicken with ginger.

It's funny how much food I post on facebook.

[Edited on April 22, 2012 at 8:01 PM. Reason : ]

4/22/2012 7:55:20 PM

kung pao?

anything with a pound of roasted peanuts in it is dumb AND gross

4/22/2012 7:57:56 PM

I dunno about "real chinese food" but I like:

sweet/sour chicken/pork
lo mein with lots of vegetables/meats
sesame chicken
egg foo young

4/22/2012 7:59:00 PM

I had this black bean chicken dish in some hole in the wall in DC's Chinatown that was the bomb.

4/22/2012 7:59:40 PM

Black beans (fermented soy beans) are used a lot.
Other things I remember from my childhood are braised pork with black beans or steamed flounder with black beans, ginger, and cilantro.

[Edited on April 22, 2012 at 8:03 PM. Reason : ]

4/22/2012 8:02:48 PM

^ that sounds amazing

4/22/2012 8:05:12 PM

Quote :

"Real chinese food is rather bland."

I disagree with this assessment. I haven't had Vietnamese food or really Thai food either. But the Chinese food I had in China was anything but "bland." Granted, I was over there for 6 weeks and I looked out as many places as possible to eat. I didn't get to have any "home cooking."

I loved Dan Chao Fan, Baozi and pretty much any dish that had duck in it . I unfortunately didn't really learn the names of most dishes I had. I personally look forward to going back this summer for a few weeks, and am looking forward to eating more chinese food (hopefully some of it home cooked this time too).

Like I said, I have never really had Vietnamese or Thai food, so perhaps it might be "bland" compared to those country's foods. But I wouldn't consider Chinese food bland, especially compared to many dishes that are traditional to European countries (although German food is pretty God damned om nomalicious, but I think Chinese food beats it).

[Edited on April 22, 2012 at 8:10 PM. Reason : Ok. Didn't see the edit. I guess you meant Chinese food is "simple?"]

4/22/2012 8:09:34 PM

4/22/2012 8:14:00 PM

After thinking about it there's a lot of stuff I haven't eaten in a long time (since going to college).
My mouth is starting to water.
I wish my mom had written down all her recipes.

Ok...to answer:

Quote :

"^ So what's the deal with Americanized Chinese food? From what I understand it's got a lot more sugar than real Chinese food, but is there anything you can get at a generic Chinese place in America that's more or less authentic?"

For the most part anything in a chinese restaurant that wasn't fried then stir fried again with some sort of sauce is fairly authentic. The thing is there's a lot of [good] authentic chinese food that isn't on the menu in most chinese places around here.
If you go to a chinese place in some chinatown then you'll find those things. Try some braised meats or soups and that'll give you an idea of what chinese food really tastes like.

4/22/2012 8:15:34 PM

4/22/2012 8:18:35 PM

^^ Yea, I see the people that work in the chinese places eating rando shit that's not on the menu all the time

But I can never figure out how to get them to make it for me. I ask and they act cueless

[Edited on April 22, 2012 at 8:19 PM. Reason : ]

4/22/2012 8:19:10 PM

authentic chinese food

go to Grand Asia Market off of buck jones and bring cash

4/22/2012 8:20:17 PM

Quote :

"Like I said, I have never really had Vietnamese or Thai food, so perhaps it might be "bland" compared to those country's foods."

Yes

Quote :

" But I wouldn't consider Chinese food bland, especially compared to many dishes that are traditional to European countries (although German food is pretty God damned om nomalicious, but I think Chinese food beats it)."

Yes

Quote :

"I guess you meant Chinese food is "simple?""

Yes

You're completely right. Bland, in the grand scheme of things, isn't the right word.
I guess that's just what came to my mind first because I grew up eating a lot of thai, vietnamese, and khmer food too (my parents lived in cambodia so they eat a lot of southeast asian dishes).

^That's good advice. I haven't eaten there but it smells like real chinese food to me lol

[Edited on April 22, 2012 at 8:25 PM. Reason : ]

4/22/2012 8:22:16 PM

Meow

4/22/2012 8:23:46 PM

^My dad says cat tastes horrible. He says dog is way better but both are far behind chicken, beef, pork, snake, or just about any other livestock.

4/22/2012 8:27:11 PM

lol

4/22/2012 8:28:40 PM

^^

4/22/2012 8:34:18 PM

I like the chicken nuggs.

4/22/2012 9:01:55 PM

Horse > cats, dogs. Horse be some good shit ya'll.

4/22/2012 9:03:26 PM

Yeah, you can't beat the french fries at a chinese place.

4/22/2012 9:03:27 PM

I used to like General Tso, and klaty told me to get the general tso from Akari express and i've been sick ever since

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

4/22/2012 9:04:06 PM

Szechuan Chicken

4/22/2012 9:04:18 PM

i don't know if it is authentic, but i love sesame chicken

4/22/2012 9:28:50 PM

I was watching a TED about regionalized chinese food, and they showed the chinese guy who invented General Tso's Chicken what the American version looked like and he was totally disgusted

4/22/2012 9:31:13 PM

I only ever get sesame chicken and crab rangoon....



I personally prefer Japanese.

4/22/2012 9:33:00 PM

Szechuan Wontons

4/22/2012 9:36:56 PM

^

4/22/2012 9:38:01 PM

Fumbler you have recipes for any of those things?

4/22/2012 9:38:33 PM

Pu Pu Platter

4/22/2012 9:39:56 PM

Hot and sour soup and crab rangoons

4/22/2012 9:42:10 PM

obligatory

4/22/2012 9:58:22 PM

Mandarin House that used to be at Cameroon Village has a chicken noodle soup that was pretty damn awesome...now they're gone

4/22/2012 10:04:50 PM

general tso

4/22/2012 10:08:33 PM

^^^^^^^^&^^^OMG NOM

Quote :

"Fumbler you have recipes for any of those things?"

The pics I posted?
Which one do you want? There's nothing special about them. I don't know how to make the pickled carrot/daikon, my mom made that, but it's just vinegar, sugar, and salt at some unknown quantity.


[Edited on April 22, 2012 at 10:14 PM. Reason : and the pickled cabbage is out of a can]

4/22/2012 10:13:17 PM

I am kind of addicted to Garlic Broccoli

[Edited on April 22, 2012 at 10:19 PM. Reason : and spring rolls. Spring rooooollsssssssss~]

4/22/2012 10:18:42 PM

These are tacky.



I prefer these over the others:

4/22/2012 10:25:33 PM

^haha

4/22/2012 10:37:05 PM

fried rice with beef, chicken, shrimp and pork

4/22/2012 10:43:35 PM