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Q: Chinese food - your opinions
I ve met expats who love chinese food and those who spend a fortune in the import shops trying to avoid it. What are your favorite dishes? Regional food. Have you forced yourself to eat things you d never imagined eating before you came to China. Will you take Chinese recipes home with you. Finally do you think your diet is healthier here or back home?
Chinese food is shithouse.
Just consists of the same ol, same ol.... And murder it with oil and salt. And msg.
And more oil. and oil.......
Crappy meat, if any. Fish that you have to avoid lest you've gotta go Chinese and spit it all over the place. I mean, can't they fukn fillet the fish!
Bones and guts and beaks and offal that have to be fiddled with.
Call me hard to please but I just like to eat my food, not have to fight with it.
For a decent Chinese feed, head to somewhere else.
Now, that said, I really enjoy Chinese food. A pity it's not available here.
BHGAL:
I am learning to deal with it.... bones! .. so is the wife.. if it is no good, guess what happens. outta here!!
Just had a run-in with China's traditional street snack: Tainted gutter oil. I look like an acne sufferer. They're obsessed with oil in this country - everything has to be dripping in it. I miss dry roasted, oven cooked and baked food. Everything's sticky or soggy from being steamed or boiled in OIL. Nothing has a decent crunch, most of the textures are akin to baby formula. It all looks like it's been regurgitated by a mother bird - yuck. They need so much oil, they've turned to recycling oil. YOU CAN'T RECYCLE OIL!!! Not for food anyway. But this is CHINA.
I love Chinese food in moderation. My wife is an awesome cook and I really enjoy Chinese/Korean BBQ, hot pot and especially stir-fried shrimp with bull frog.
I agree, they do use far too much oil in most dishes. Eating too much Chinese food makes me bored and eating too much Western food is usually too expensive and you do miss out on some good stuff.
Recently, I don't eat out very much... cooking at home is best. If you eat out too much you are bound to run into some horribly tainted food.
coineineagh:
Agreed, there are some nice dishes. They cut things very thinly, and have some amazing veggies and other ingredients. Definitely enough to excite the palate for a year or so. But after a while, you start to see the pattern. The overused wok pan as only cooking utensil, the sparse usage of herbs because to them it all tastes like medicine. They've got oil up the wazoo, but they can't seem to get potato chips to be properly crunchy. Meat is just massacred into chunks of bone and cartilage with skin attached. More than half the shared dishes on the table should have a spoon in them but don't. Even the relative haute cuisine of the spicy Sichuanese kitchen has these flaws.
As one of the most anti-China posters on this forum, known for my hatred of the color red, atheists, and short pople, all those who do not like Chinese food confuse me.
The food is the one, only, and greatest thing about Chinese culture, it is the very acme of their civilization, the one thing that they should be proud of, the variety, skill, and delight of the middle kingdom.
China...you can't think but by God you can cook!
