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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Do you like Chinese food?
If so, which province's food.
please share your experiences of eating Chinese food.
There are some foods I genuinely like but most of the food here, Nanning, all tastes the same. Everything gets drowned in soy, garlic, chilli, ginger etcetera and while I do like those things when the food you eat every time tastes of the same few flavours it does get boring. I remember doing steaks at home and my wife saying this is good but what is that unusual taste. I told her that was beef, she was so used to eating all these things with all the other tastes she did not even recognise the taste of beef. I do have this idea that the usual way of cooking with one wok and two gas burners, plus the idea that we have always done it this way so why change, has seriously limited Chinese cuisine in some ways. There are some good dishes out there but it seems to me that you really have to search for them.
Nessquick:
the same here. I grilled chicken, or just make a beef steak cuts, just olive salt'n'pepa and always have same questions home or from visitors ? ooh, what have you add in this food ? its nice... nothing, just salt... oh, really ? so did you marinated long time in the oil ? ... no, 1hr ago I bring from market ... oh....
After 1 month the same couple we have visit again, and they said have try that too. but they use the microwave oven ..
Silva is back.
philbravery:
Remember it comes in 3s , can you spot the other 2 personalities?
Right... because it's not like there are multiple types of food in China. When I go to a Chinese restaurant, I just look at the menu, and order the food. Maybe with a beverage to drink.
It's like asking, "Do you like American music?"
No, everything tastes the same. The choice you get is spicy or bland. It's swimming in oil and has too much of everything in it (garlic, ginger, etc) so you lose the taste of the original food.
there are a few simple dishes I don't mind but 99.9% of the food in china I dislike very much!
Red_Fox:
(Your parenthetical etcetera includes MSG, I take it. I think I've developed an MSG allergy since living here. Or maybe it's the dirty, recycled oil. Dunno.)
But I've come to rate meals in the same fashion as hotels (star system) or restaurants (number of forks) are rated, only my ratings are based on piles of doggie poo: the higher the number of dog piles, the worse the meal is. No dog piles? Not a bad meal.
Oh, how do I define the weighting of such a meal rating system? Well, a dog pile represents a trip to the loo after the said meal. The more trips to the loo, the higher the number of dog piles.
Some days after a lunch, I hit the WC four or five times... And each visit earns the meal a steaming hot pile of doggie poo. Gonna patent the rating system.
If its not too sweet then its too oily. Then some of it is really bad. I've always been amazed that I've never seen a food fight in China, most of it makes great amo.
mArtiAn:
I started a food fight once when I got a birthday cake as a present from students. It was the only way out of eating it. I don't know if it's in the sponge or the 'cream' but one of those put me in hospital with a severe alergic reaction once.
TedDBayer:
I wanted salad last night, went to a western restaurant, GF says no, go to a Chineese R, salad is crap, dressing was a dessert topping and I'm sure the cheese on the pizza came out of a jar.
Yeh, I particularly like the 12寸玛格丽特 from 必胜客. With extra cheese.
way too oily and salty, they can never be my favorites. I started making chinese foods of my own style since last year.
Today is Sunday
Nessquick:
Yesterday I grilled chicken legs in my oven, and with boiled potatoes ... Just to have some real food some days ...
Well I live in Xinjiang and some of the food out here is pretty good. I'm speaking of local dishes that have an emphasis on meat. Yep,that's real meat!!
And get this...they cook it in these open oven kind of things. A dish called sha tan rou with lots of spices on it is great. Usually served with raw onion and, in my case, cold beer.
And the various Muslim noodle dishes are good too.
As for the stuff turned out in traditional Chinese restaurants, well, it's just the same 'ol oily muck everywhere.
Whenever I'm asked to choose I just say order whatever...it's all the bloody same.
Its awesome!!! I love spicy noodles and i can never get enough of it.
I apologize for my earlier outburst... looks like 99MattyRocks is back.
I love Chinese food. A plate of xiao long bao (小笼包) or some lanzhou lamian (兰州拉面) or xinjiang food. It's all pretty good. I don't like tofu so that gets me in trouble sometimes but otherwise it's good. If you like spicy food it helps too. I do get tired of it sometimes and then just need that 12寸玛格丽特 from 必胜客 that martian's talking about.