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Q: What foods are China missing?

  China's taken to burgers, KFC, pizza, western bread (though there's still room for improvement), so what else is missing? What other foods could possibly get a foot in the door on the Chinese food market? I know there's Subway but I still reckon there's room for decent sandwich shops. So what else? Greek kebabs? Felafals? There's gotta be something.

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Fish, Chips and mushy peas of course.

Lots of salt and vinegar, wrapped in yesterday's newspaper.

mArtiAn:

 Yeh, um, mushy peas..................how did that ever get onto a menu?

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robinhood:

You must come from down south, they never did have any taste down there.   I'm thinking of opening a Fish & Chip shop in Beijing.   Looking for partners.............

and customers

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  A fish and chip shop sounds like a goood idea.

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littlemick:

when i finish here ( Shenyang ), i just might come to Beijing

Theres gotta be an opening for fish n chips there, brit style of course

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They eat everything here.....so nothing is missing.....wait wait.....do they eat human beings here?!!!

mArtiAn:

  I'm really going to regret this but I did hear of a place where you can eat babies.

  And now everyone who reads this says, "No, you didn't."

  Yes, I did.

  Don't know if it's true, probably isn't, but for me it raised a great many questions about morality: Is canabalism wrong? Big, ugly question, but I have to say, no, I do not believe it is. I believe it is the thought of eating oneself or one's own that makes it such a sin, but in truth, it is just meat. Is my life worth more than that of the many, many, many animals that will die before I do to sustain it? Only to me. But if I was that cow, or that pig, or sheep, chicken, duck, fish, or whatever, i'm certain my opinion would be quite different. So chuck another baby on the barby, baby, i'm feelin' kinda peckish.

  Ok. On with the punches.

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martin : i agree with you because i heard it too 

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french style crepes (pancakes) should be widely and easily accepted, as well as other wrap-ons (mexican style)

 

I think, that also roasted (baked) potatoes, served with garlic and butter (or olive oil) should be ok for the snacks

donuts - it also should works, if it would be "not so sweet" versions

 

etc., etc. ...

bigasspanda:

Well, seen crepes, burritos, tortillas 'Chinese style'. Also donuts can be spotted in many bakeries. Potatoes is a good idea but most Chinese thinks we are fat because we eat too much bread or potatoes...

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and I suppose Their have some right about it enlightened

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I don't think it is the types of foods that is the problem but the sources of the ingredients.

 

For example, last night we had some chicken legs (drumsticks in UK), for dinner, my mother-in-law had prepared them how I can eat them (i.e. cooked not freaking blues rare) and with enormous anticipation, almost drooling at the thought sank my teeth into..............

 

the hardest mother xxx chicken you ever did see!  I'm telling you this SOB would walk through the streets of Harlem naked at 1am and NOONE would mess with it!  Hell even my Father-in-law struggled to eat these drumsticks.

WhiteBear:

so this is not only a source of ingredients problem, but more way of preparing ...

 

about this drumsticks... 
in EU and US there are special races of chicken for meat, they grow ultra fast, like muscle-man on steroids. result - is delicate ("pumped") meat

 

if You prepare Chineese chicken, bought on the market, the same way, like You do with "foreign one"... meat will be hard as a stone :) - because there are less muscles, but this muscles have worked hard 

however... if You find suppliers, that produces meat for "burger style" Chineese bars and restaurants... You will have drumstick meat almost the same like back home
 

Otherwise - try some marinate for "standard CHinese market chicken" to soften meat before cooking

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  Hugh, you've reminded me of a joke: Bloke driving through the countryside gets overtaken by a three legged chicken. Bloke speeds up, chicken runs faster. Eventually the chicken disappears into a farm so blokey stops by and asks the farmer about it. Farmer says "Yup, we breed them for th'local market. Get three legs for th'price o' two." Blokey asks how they taste and the farmer replies, "No idea, i've never caught one."

  B'DUM-CHA!

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What I wouldn't give to have an all-day breakfast style restaurant.  In the US we have Cracker Barrel, Denny's, IHOP, Waffle House.  Not sure if those would do well here in China or not, but I'd definitely gain a pound or 10 enlightened

Hugh.G.Rection:

I've thought long and hard about opening an 'All day English Breakfast' stall / shop, the main full English would be,

 

Two fried eggs, (sunny side up of course)

Two (beef and pork) sausages,

Two rashers of bacon, (cooked how the customer prefers)

Slice of Black Pudding,

Potato Scone (potato cake to some, NOT hash browns)

Button mushrooms,

Tomatoes,

Beans

Fried Bread,

 

Usually on a plate but there would be the option of having the whole thing in one HUGE roll wrapped up in Aluminium foil.

 

Only things are 1. sourcing the ingredients and 2. In a third tier town, not too sure if I would get the customers, (and eating all the profits would be another danger.)

 

Of course we could 'branch out' into burgers and other 'western food'.

 

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a good meat pie

Hugh.G.Rection:

That would require good meat!

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In my opinion, edible desserts. Maybe they have them in 1st tier cities, but here in "the boonies," cakes leave a lot to be desired. It's like eating sponge bread with whipped Styrofoam on top! And then, one has to pick off the kiwi, oranges and watermelon to get to the cake. What's up with that? I've never been a big "sweets" eater, but once in a while...

 

 

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pot roast, mexican food, thai food.

Createach:

i found good thai food in guangzhou...was acceptable to say the truth

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And I found Mexican food the other night in Ningbo.  I had fajitas and my gf had burritos (her first time trying Mexican food).  It wasn't half bad, will go there again!

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noodles and spaghetti sauce, I found I could get sauce in China but it wasn't good, Cheese, I found Swiss cheese at Walmart once, so I bought all 3 packs, never saw it again or any other real cheese. I saved one package of cheese that I ate with a bottle of wine that I was saving on the day I left.

 Meat, aged beef. For the size of China I never saw any beef herds or large chicken farms. I saw fish farms, but I don't like fish.

 I'm not sure if my tastes are acquired or correct, but things like bacon or ham never tasted good to me in China.

 Decent sandwiches. Salads, too many to mention, but salads suck in China. Mushrooms, I don't like them slimy. Morels, Portabello, Argicus (white), Shiitake

 Roast turkey with all the trimmings and gravy.

 Almost every nation has good dishes except the British.

mArtiAn:

  Ahem, ever heard of a little British invention called 'beans a la toast'?

  No decent British dishes. Pfff.

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Deep fried mars bar Edinburgh style

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donut??

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