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Q: Do you ever miss "Western" Chinese food?
I was just at lunch, consuming my overly MSG'd bowl of tomato and egg noodles, and the thought came into my head how amazing a crab rangoon or spring roll would be right now.
Also, I'll ask out of curiosity, even though I seriously doubt it, but are there any such Western Chinese restaurants in Beijing (or wherever you are located)?
Ha ha, fortune cookies! I've never even seen them here! Prawn crackers are also something I miss, though I think I've seen them here in the form of chips.
mike168229:
Prawn crackers you can buy to fry yourself. Very cheap too. You can get them loose in the supermarket or in a box. As for fortune cookies, purely an American invention.
Yep, all the time. Closest thing to it is a Cantonese restaurant seen as most of the Chinese food in the west is Cantonese. I've found one with a few dishes quite similar to those back home.
Yes I miss lemon chicken and sesame chicken and spring rolls.
Ahh Spring Rolls, midnight walking home from the pub with two Spring Rolls which invariably were half a kilo of grease loosely wrapped in a batter like covering, one bite into the beansprouts inside released all the grease, usually right down my shirt!!!
Miss it............................ sort of.
mArtiAn:
Yup, yup, yup, spring rolls. Never seen a single one in all my years here.
Hugh.G.Rection:
Thanks for that Hulk, I didn't know that. I do know that in the UK EVERY Chinese take-away sells them and you need to remember that in the UK there are more Chinese take-aways than any other kind of food outlet (including McDonalds), indeed every town and 90% of villages have at least one.
Definitely I do miss crab rangoons, and also miss some of the different chickens like kung pao, sesame, and peanut butter. The similar ones in China, don't taste anything alike. Also, I miss having a plate of meat and not having it filled with bones and fat.
I have yet to find a western style Chinese restaurant in all of Guangzhou, and I would be surprised if such a place does exist. I would definitely stop in though if they did.
I missed it in China. "Chinese" food has become a part of American cuisine, just like pizza.
spring rolls can be pretty darn tasty, an addictive 'gotta have a munch' food. the weird sweet sauce u dip them in is the odd thing, it's bad, but really it's good, but really it sux. like tobacco or something ,,, it tastes like some kinda liquified sugar fruit or something,, but u still have to dip your spring roll in it...
of course now I'm a dark vinegar junkie and prolly wouldn't use that sweet sauce dip.
Hugh.G.Rection:
The Spring Rolls you get in the UK are about 2 inches in diameter, about 6 inches long (yes very phallic) and greasy as all hell. You really wouldn't want to dip them in anything. The ones you get in sit-down restaurants are smaller and sound like the ones you are talking about.
diverdude1:
oic. yep, the one's I had were about 1" diameter , 3" length. and the sweet sauce dip was part of the deal.
still, a pretty darn good munch.
ok, echina crew,, name the best damn munch ever. not including your last gf's box...
I vote:
proper 'fish 'n chips' from the old days,, served in newspaper with that frickin good vinegar... saltwater cod. anybody old enuf from UK to remember that ? sea salt and everything... hehe,, darn, I'm old....
Never have missed the westernized Chinese food in America. I like the food here in Shanghai just fine. Went back to America recently and tried Chinese food... just awful.
Every. Single. Day. I would literally kill multiple people if it meant I could have a Panda Express in my city.
DaqingDevil:
Ok I'll bite....Panda Express is............??? I can't 'bear' not to know.
Yes, I miss the egg rolls and sweet & sour chicken ball.
I have yet to miss it. Must add that I wasn't a big consumer of Chinese food back home, lived in a "Chinese take out place"-vacuum.
MissA:
Where on earth is there such a thing as a Chinese take-out vacuum? And never mind earth, I'm pretty sure the first space colony will be followed closely by the first entrepreneurial Guandong family restaurant specializing in honey chicken!
Many Western Chinese raturdants in Canada are buffets and I like the food, but if you go to better Chinese raturdants they have some really good dishes, like ginger fried crap, duck etc.
