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anonymous
Q: Chinese food is boring?
lol
by Nicholasba
Yes, everything is over cooked, and spiced to make you choke. I can see spicy hot. Mostly noodles or rice and bones or unknown meat or insects on a stick. And weird I bet I could sell sh8t on a stick.
TedDBayer:
I gave you a thumbs down just cause you didn't say ''Chinese food sucks/''.
Scandinavian:
I'll give you a thumbs down because you didn't correct OP to "...sucks ass badly"
TedDBayer:
Ok, it was implied, Chinese food sucks ass, but badly? Isn't that a double entendre?
JoyAlmost:
in this case, I can say every food is boring.
Simply because every country has its specific way of cooking
TedDBayer:
@JoyAlmost, actually this post started as a joke. Some of it is sarcastic which you won't understand. but truthfully, Chinese eat things like feet that we throw in the garbage. In my country I can buy anything I want to eat or cook, in China you can not.
JoyAlmost:
hahaha, really. I want to learn more about scarstism in English, even now English is my communication language here but still, sometimes I cannot understand the point :P
Yes, very boring. There could be 10 dishes on a table and 8 of them look the same. Meat and vegetables chopped up, overcooked in oil. Boring
Scandinavian:
boiled lettuce just needs some oystersauce, then it is just as all the other green veggies
Totally agree about it being boring....It would help though if it was cooked in the same way it is back in the U.K./U.S./Europe.
totally boring. back here 2 weeks and do not know, what to eat :(
Hmmmm. Do I want noodles or rice for lunch. ? Do I care ? No I don't it is the same thing tasting of soy sauce no matter what. Unless of course it is one of the lucky days and Mrs. Scandinavian is home and cooks some of her usual food. Luckily she has spent enough time outside of China to be able to cook stuff that is not Chinese. Fusion Kitchen is the way to go.
Scandinavian:
Actually the saddest thing about Chinese food is that none of the flavor comes from meats and vegetables in the dishes but from the sauce poured out of a bottle. Thank you Lee Kum Kee for making my food edible.
Chinese food is disgustingly boring, except the stuff you get in western countries where they have improved it no end.
sam239:
I disagree, I can get better food here than back home. Better Chinese, that is.
Yes, yes it is.
I'm so glad I've moved to Kunming, where Western food is abundant! 
I've been here a month after moving from small town Hebei and haven't eaten Chinese food once. Oh, except the Dai ethnic minority food.. These people know how to cook. Pineapple rice, roast pork no bones ( yes, no bones ) and fried bananas! Yum!
While I agree that it gets tiresome if you eat only chinese food, I still think that there are a lot of great dishes out there.
And about the noodles.... the argument about it only being a choice of noodles or rice doesnt hold true when you consider that there are dozens of different kinds of noodles to choose from.
A lot of restaurants over-sauce everything and overcook it until it tastes like salty much, but those crappy places arent worth going to (that can be said for a lot of the "nice and expensive" hotel restaurants too). But there are loads of good restaurants and variety out there if you look for them.
interesting entry basically discussing how unhealthy chinese food is
http://blog.chinalovematch.net/blog/article/Real-Chinese-Food-Sucks-the-...
too much oil?Try some real Guangdong dishes or Huaiyang disher PLZ
Scandinavian:
Guangdong food is still pretty oily if compared to European foods. The food is un-elegant with the exception of some of the dim sums
djangolee:
So there is a equation here "oily = un-elegant" now? You said that many Chinese think "different = bad" and now you set a rule " more oil than food in Europe=un-elegant"?
Well done
slice_999_k:
I don't mean to point out the obvious, but if you have more oil than food, you have a problem don't you. It's not attacking something becuse it's different, it's saying something is probably unedible or at least shouldn't be eaten for the sake of health and enjoyment of food.
Really...how would you suggest to make the food more entertaining?
I would love ... Chicken Madras,popadoms,chopped onion thing,chutney,naan bread and pilau rice - I actually found this in Shenzhen,in an Indian restaurant - and it was just like the Indian food back home.
... delicious,spicy but not crazy spicy.
But... I am in Sichuan 
Scandinavian:
Naan can be found amongst people from Xinjiang province. There is a small shop in town that exclusively bakes naan and some Xinjiang bread (a sweet type) Their naan is just the perfect thing to walk around and munch on.
Find someone who speaks Uyghur and ask them if they know where to get naan.
Chinese Foods are not Boring? But at the same time they wasted lot of Food everytime.
Order So many Foods - Start with Cold Food, then Hot , ended with some rice or Noodles.
yeah and if you visit an upmarket Chinese restaurant its overpriced as well. A good example is the country club I visit to go swimming has a restaurant, that you need to walk through to get to the pool, and isn't anything special but has cucumber pieces for 55rmb or you can get a fruit salad for 85rmb...
Now to answer the OP. Yes Chinese food is mundane, boring and everything is pretty much the same. Chinese even think their food is healthy compared to western foods even when dining with them and pointing out the food is swimming in oil. At least with western food we try and remove the oil before serving!
I disagree. Ever had purple pineapple rice with jasimine bulbs tossed in and such? There's loads of interesting dishes.
And, the best is chinese style of western food.
Not only all the sandwiches in FamilyMart, 7Eleven and so on, are all filled with mayonaise. The same they do to me with Starbucks. All the nice salads are gone, and replaced with Sweet croisant 1tiny slice of beef, hidden slice of cheese, and 5kg of mayonaise. The only last place I am visiting is also boring Lanzhou lamian shop or Subway. otherwise, only home cooking. Did you saw the new advertising for McD ? Burger, where the bread is covered in black or white chocolate, chicken filet with mayonaise ? Hmmm, healthy china style. 
You guys should watch "A Bite of China" documentary. I have yet to watch it but have heard from many people that it'll make you see Chinese cuisine in a whole new light (while salivating the entire way through the DVD). Here's a Guardian article about it: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/sep/12/bite-of-...
Scandinavian:
Got the bluerays of A Bite Of China. It is a testement to how boring Chinese food is. 20% of the worlds population's cuisine results in 7 - 50 min tv-shows ?
Touching topic for me... how many times I told my GF I really dont' like the food here. Everything drowning in oil and every dish looks the same. Meat chopped into pieces put green pepper and some soy - finished. Noodles cooked in water without salt, same for rice. Usually get dry rice :(
If I complain she says you are just too picky 
Scandinavian:
it is very easy to flip the picky argument, take her to your home country and see if she can survive, or maybe even to another province.
dom87:
i would like to take her home but she gets no visa, haha this irony with the visa shit
My girlfriends father is an amazing cook. He used to own his restaurant. I was losing weight rapidly when I first came here, and now I am putting it back on. Worringly though, a lot of his food is cooked in vast amounts of oil... 
