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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Hilarious attempts at Western cuisine in China - what's been your experiences?
I can't count the amount of half-arsed attempts I've had here, though pizzas usually set the mark with regards to failed attempts at western cuisine. I've had them ranging from rock hard tooth-destroying to being topped with chocolate and strawberries (wtf?)
What's been your experiences? Not limited to food too - I'd love to hear your drinks stories.
Eight years ago I had a pizza in Liuzhou with custard in it. Honest Injun. The same restaurant also served me a Kahlua coffee with what I thought was a cherry on top. Nope. Hold up. This isn't a cherry, what is it? Oh, of course, it's a tomato. Yum.
OwainLW:
You were in Liuzhou? I used to live there back in 2009. Good times. And yes I can imagine that kind of thing happening exactly there. I remember once I found this cafe that sold all you can drink strawberry milkshake for 15 RMB. It was just pink ice.
Americans probably won't appreciate this. In Chengdu, I was pleased to find a steak and mushroom pie. Until I started eating it, and found that all taste was overwhelmed by garlic.
The "Chinese hamburger". It looks like a chicken burger but when you take a bite you find only corn, peas and rice. I'm not sure about the rice, I'm trying to forget that occasion.
T&MM an excellent Nanning pizza house, (authentic thin crust really nice.......... usually) has just released it's latest topping, Oldfriend pizza, ( as in Oldfriend noodles a Nanning 'delicacy' which is quite sour and a little spicy).
Fruit salad with what I could only guess was actual salad dressing on it. Disgusting.
I once ordered lasagne in Yangshuo that was composed of chopped cucumber and tomato covered in an egg pancake with cheese on top. I should have been smarter than to order lasagne in a little touristy cafe in south China!
Any dish you can find in the Chinese-Western like restaurants chains like UBC and such.
They're all terribly, horribly wrong. To be served with a nice glass of chinawine.
Nessquick:
you mean the "steak" on iron plate, with almost fresh egg and few pieces of pasta in the egg ? this I recall as most crazy inventive "western-like"dish
Was taken to a 'Western' restaurant in Wuxi.. they were very proud of their steaks as they were imported from Germany.
But,horror of horrors - was given a croissant and a pain au chocolat with my first course.. then I had 5 chips ( fries ) and a ton of onion rings with the steak.. Something had got lost in translation !
Lovely mashed potato at another 'German' restaurant, drizzled with blueberry sauce instead of gravy.
It's been years since I've been to a "Western" restaurant. Ahh, the bliss of discovering where the true expat owned/operated/staffed restaurants are. But, from what I can remember.....pizza's with corn, rubbery "steaks" drenched in sauce in attempt to hide the true nature of the beast (horrible), fruit salad slathered in mayonnaise. Other items on the menu were a crapshoot due to the unintelligible English descriptions.
dom87:
whats wrong with pizzas with corn?
actually i do that by myself and love it, can also eat it in italian pizza places in germany + italy
cooter:
Stereotypical American here....I don't get out much. I've never seen corn on a pizza in the U.S., so that's why it seems "wrong" to me. Also, I don't like corn
The generalization is that it always sucks.
I've stopped trying to seek out western food. I do like McDonalds or Burger King once in a while, but even there where everything is highly organized, they manage to screw up regularly.
you have the shitty chinese "western" restaurants where they fail to copy
or the overprized real western restaurant (well i know the price is fair cause they have to import all since its hard to get here)
i had a fruit pizza with sweet mayo
also had a pizza which seems to only made out of flour and on top of it only green pepper. after 2 bites i felt sick. Since then i know: Never pay before you eat, if you have to pay in advance you get horror food
well, not much on the scale of things, but what really got my goat was a 'pizza' the other day,,,,, not even a friggin' hint of cheese ! none whatsoever. just a bunch of weird ass veggies,, or I guess that's what the stuff on top was..
nicely as I could manage I told 'em Not to call it Pizza. numbnutz fkrs....