no sweet and sour, lemon, honey garlic,, i heard the noodles were great,,,never had any,,the meat dishes I had, mostly chicken , i didn't care for,,, i didn't even eat the head. I ordered lobster which were cray fish,, but i thought they were going to be shrimp,,the 5 star restaurant food was closer to western and had all the bones taken out. I wanted peking duck and they only place i saw them,, they were cooked and hanging in the window which didn't make me want them.
the fried rice is more like rice with vegies, than our fried rice.
i found that when i ordered a dish, it would feed two and came with rice.

Chinese food in China is NOTHING like back home.
I think it should be called American Chinese food back home....it's a mix of traditional and local.
And unless you like spitting out little pieces of bone in every bite, don't order the chicken here!
And don't even get me started about how they serve fish....the whole thing...I miss salmon fillets!

Yeah, here, almost all food has the bones in it. And I don't mean whole bones, I mean they took whatever meat it was and hacked it to death. Fish is served whole, you have to either try to pick at the meat and hope for the best, or spit the bones out. You're already eating it with chopsticks, which means you only get tidbits at a time because the fish is usually quite tender and falls apart. Any type of little sea critter like shrimp or clams comes completely whole. The locals like to suck whatever is inside the head, but it looks really gross to me. I pull off the head and peel it before eating it.

Peking duck meat is actually pretty good, I think it tastes like dark turkey meat. However, it is really expensive, and they usually take a slice with some onion and wrap it in a little crepe/tortilla thing, which really takes away from the flavor.

The variety of vegetables here is astounding. There are so many combinations of ingredients in every dish compared to back home, which only had 2 or 3 ingredients. I wouldn't exactly say it tastes better here, but some of that Chinese food back home wasn't very authentic and might not have tasted very good to begin with. And of course there are no fortune cookies, those are an American invention.

I guess you could say that in the West, the food tastes like whatever it is because the ingredients are so simple. But here, in general, the food tastes like whatever sauce it is in. I think they are more about texture than flavor, anyway.

i think there is a big different between chinese food and chinese food for west——the spices , in china there too many spices the foreigners never heared. we use them to fry, to steam, to boil····