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Q: Recommendations on what Chinese dishes you like best?
I've grown terribly, terribly bored of always ordering the same Chinese dishes, and was wondering if any of you had good suggestions as to what your staple favorites were (that one can find in most restaurants).
The 3 I almost always order are:
- suan tai rou si gaifan 蒜薹肉丝 (rice with thin strips of pork with green sprout-like vegetables)
- tuji wonton (wonton with chicken bits, greens and broth)
- Muxurou gaifan 木须肉 (rice with mushroom, eggs, potatoes (sometimes), cucumbers and pork)
Those are "classics", but still:
京酱肉丝Jing jiang rou si
宫保鸡丁 Gong bao ji ding
铁板牛肉 Tie ban niu rou
铁板茄子 Tie ban qie zi
鸡蛋米线 Ji dan mi xian (my all-time favourite)
try chicken feet, a billion Chinese can't be wrong
or duck or pig feet
fave of mine is da pan ji pretty much potato, chicken, with either noodles or naan bread as the base little bit spicy you can get this at a Xianjiang restaurant.
MissA:
My favourite! Don't try to eat it by yourself, though... Here, it's always served with noodles dumped into the sauce after all the other good stuff is gone
I like lobsters))) Actually most of Chinese dishes I find very tasty
Guilin Mifeng!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
How I miss thee!!!!! 
Inspite the fact that people SWEAR that in Beijing you can get it, 8 shops and almost a year later has led me to believe otherwise. The ANNOUNCE it but it does not taste at all like Guilin.
Tang su li ji (bascially, sweet and sour pork)
Tudou niurou (beef with potato)
If you're up north, or in a dong-bei restaurant - gou ba rou - awesome!!!
I also order up at least one veg dish, which can often just be xingcai or xiaobaicai he mogu.
Xihongshichaodan (tomato and egg) is pretty easy and readily available, though potentially boring. I don't order it anymore in restaurants, cos I usually have it for breakfast on my days off (when I don't have bacon 
)
Oh, and hongshao rou (or qiezi) - red cooked (pork or eggplant)
kfc macdonalds and subway this way i wont catch anything nasty
I could use a bit of help with recalling the characters, but of the many dishes that I enjoy most (and continue to add to)...
ganbian silidou = green beans with peppers and sichuan peppercorns
凤凰擂茄子= from Hunan, mashed eggplant with garlic, served in a mortar
-just about any vegetarian eggplant dish (with peppers)
新疆馕饼 Xinjiang nangbing (though I haven't yet been to the region), baked bread (hopefully with sesame seeds and/or sunflower seeds) served with yangrouchuar (mutton skewers), grilled vegetables and an insalubrious mixture of cumin and coke bottle-filled marinade
yoghurt and a mutton pepper sandwich
street-side egg/chive/Guilin hot sauce sandwiches
and more to come
