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Q: Foreign Chinese Food ?
My question about foreign food got me thinking.. I miss UK Chinese food. It had no bones, no chicken heads or feet. And the Peking duck was meat rather than skin. The pork was pork rather than pork fat, and the rice had texture.
What do you prefer? Home country Chinese food or real Chinese food?
you must be eating at the wrong places .
never had those problems up NTH in the restaurants .
maybe down Sth they have different tastes .
you must be eating at the wrong places .
never had those problems up NTH in the restaurants .
maybe down Sth they have different tastes .
I can't wait to get back to Australia so I can enjoy some great Chinese food.
The stuff they dish up here is mostly just slop. Same ol same ol same ol. Dripping in oil and gorged with salt and msg.
Fish riddled with a million little bones and meat that's just skin and fat and bone and head and shit.
No imagination hardly at all.
It is possible to do better but I'm talking about 95% of places.
It is better in Xinjiang though. The various noodle soup dishes are terrific. But you can't be having that kind of stuff for dinner.
Beer's better here too.
And the people who come from here have fuller figures.
Living in a few different cities I have always had good luck with food... but only after carefully observing where the locals eat and then checking it out. I got sick only once when I was in a different city and just went to a place that looked okay from the outside.
Any Chinese food in the US is so very americanized to the local 'palate' that often it does not even resemble the original dish.
ScotsAlan:
Yeah, I found America Chinese food strange. But I yearn for British Chinese food :-)
Yeah I miss western chinese food too. And I like most local food too. I just want that variety.
Also remember that the 'Chinese food' outside of China is usually a vast selection of foodtypes from around the country - and a large percentage of that is from the 'Canton' region (due to migration). AND those dishes tend to be what the richer Chinese would have eaten - not the poorer (which s is what you'll get in most restaurants).
There are definitely some dishes I prefer (or just plain like) that I've never even seen or heard about back home... honeyed lotus root, for example! While GuoBarou is like Lemon chicken (or pork), it's still different. Same with 'Mongolian Lamb'. And, of course, the 'special' fried rice back home leaves everything here for dead!
So, in some ways - six of one, half a dozen of the other
I prefer the authentic food here than the modified one in my country
Do any of you guys live in Guangzhou? They have great food there! I just recently finished a film shoot there and my actress (Foshan native) took me to eat the best Chinese food ever! Each day was a great eating experience. I highly recommend a Dongbei restaurant called 东北. The other places, I couldn't read the names. To be honest, I would have never found those places on my own. Great Western food there too. I miss that city already.
Hotwater:
I live in Guangzhou and I'd agree that the choice of food here is superb, different styles of Chinese food and foreign food.
I I found your comment about the great Dongbei restaurant funny! It will be impossible to find the particular one called 东北 as all Dongbei restaurants sell 东北菜!
