/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I've only ever had "Chinese food," not actual Chinese food, but I love General Tso's, sesame chicken, orange chicken/beef, hot and sour soup, wonton soup, beef teriyaki, Hunan chicken.

>>9937597
I hope thats not a sea roach on your plate..

>can of Soy
>concern for calories

you are...a gay man.

Water boiled beef. One of my favourite foods ever. It's a bit spicy but the eat is incredibly tender and flavourful.
https://youtu.be/m7R4vJOnPAQ

>>9937609
This is not a concern for calories, but an utter disregard for them.

Yeo's soy milk is the shit. And I got laid this past Wednesday.

>>9937609
>Still trying to force this unfunny meme

>>9937629
Boiled with water. Who knew.

Ma po tofu

but most places probs dont carry it. Shit is #2tyte

>>9937934
Actually it's one of the few Sichuan dishes I see even on the menus of American chinese restaurants occasionally

>>9937597
Siomai

To me the orange chicken from panda express is where its at. Orange chicken that actually tastes like oranges makes me wanna heave. Also i dont really care for much else at panda express apart from maybe potstickers.

It's hard to find Chinese food (american style) that tastes or smells like it did as a kid in the 80s. Chinese food was freakin delicious back then. Not many places replicate that taste or smell anymore. Chinese food used to have a unique smell back then I can't explain it, maybe a mix of the Wok Hay or oil.

Why no more good chinese food?

Also favorite dish, potstickers.

Singapore Mei fun. I see you know the secret, OP.

>>9938348
>orange chicken from Panda Express

Seriously? It would seem like it would be some overly sweet, HFC-laden sauce.

Get you that honey walnut shrimp.

>>9938348
>Panda shitspress

>>9938676
It's hit or miss with the Panda Express Orange chicken. Every single time I've had it before, it tastes like pure sugar; like they just made the sauce with boiled down orange soda. One recently came to my city and I gave it one more shot, and it was actually pretty decent. Guess it just depends where you get it.

>>9937934
>most common and often-ruined Szechuan dish
how's the air traffic today?

if you want a real Chinese dish, try to find a place that serves "宫保鸡丁".

>>9938695
No if you really want the true Chinese experience you need to get 美味的我的肚子里的狗 or 糖醋屋顶兔子.

>>9937597
DAS IT MANE

>>9938505
this

it's the same with many dishes unfortunately. It's as if as the years go by the quality becomes shit. I remember as a kid chinese food was the shit. now most places sell faggity ads bland rice with sugar coated meats that fucking suck

>>9938348
panda express is for fucking faggots. nothing tastes good in that shithole. why would you waste money in that fucking dump called chinese food?

>>9939070
I like the sweetifre chicken. But I found a better local Chinese place and I don't go to panda any more. Still miss the sweetfire though :(

t. blogger

>>9937597
char siu

>>9937597
hot and sour soup
general tso
crispy beef
hakka noodle

>>9939070
No u

Cantonese fried rice.

Fried dumplings, especially beef or lamb.
Sichuan/Chongqing style hot pot, with beef lard, sichuan pepper and chillies
Dan dan mian -- noodles with a minced meat sauce, simple and delicious
Hot dry mian -- noodles with a sesame paste sauce, delicious but less satisfying than dan dan mian, which is king
Qingjiao rou si -- Wiry thin strips of soy-sauce marinated lean pork and hot green chillies cooked plainly with salt. Somehow delicious.
Chinese bbq, especially mutton, sheep kidney, and sometimes beef
Malatang -- Originally from Sichuan but most popular and delicious in Beijing. Just lots of vegetables, tofu and processed meat things boiled together and covered in chili sauce, sesame paste, vinegar, etc. Feels good to eat it.
Black stewed duck -- Cold duck that has been stewed for a long time in a rich broth to give it a dark colour and the most extreme 'numb' flavour ever.
Meicai braised pork belly -- Some kind of weird stewed vegetable (mustard greens?) with stewed fatty pork belly slices. Looks terrible, but the meat can be the most delicious pork in existence.
Red braised pork belly -- Pieces of pork belly cooked with sugar and soy sauce to make them salty and sweet. A definite contender for best pork dish.
Pork belly with potato -- Similar to the one above but minus sugar and plus potato chunks. Very satisfying.
Leek explosion mutton -- Mutton cooked with leeks. This shows the simple goodness of Chinese cooking, where two ingredients perfectly match make a great dish, in contrast to the more complex, crazier dishes.
Roast fish -- Not a huge fan of Chinese fish dishes considering how they're cooked whole which can be a pain but when it's a big fish with easy to avoid bones, it's easier to appreciate. A large fish, like a bass or catfish, is roasted til the skin is golden and crisp, then it's submerged in spicy, oily soup, to which you can choose to add vegetables, etc.
Water braised beef -- As the guy above said, shit is cash. Paris has some good ones, strangely.

>>9937934

>>9939274
Also need to add:
Beijing roast duck
Tang bao
Mao xue wang

Tiger penis soup

>don't like Chinese food
>only thing that is remotely passable is ginger beef
>family ordering Chinese food as is tradition during gathering
>ask for extra ginger beef
>the place we ordered from has some soft soggy ginger beef
>hardly any flavor
>try some of everything else
>don't like any of it

Next year I am going to go rogue and order some Thai or Indian.

>>9938326
>>9938695

Well maybe at the places where you guys live but around here it's the usual orange chicken, General Tso's etc.

>>9939435
If you go Thai make sure to try Spicy Chilli Beef Basil, or Pad Gra Pow

>>9937647
>>>9937609
>>Still trying to force this unfunny meme
T. Soylet

>>9937597
>I'm trying to fit all my calories onto one plate.
If you're talking about daily calories then you shouldn't go with Chinese as you'll just be hungry again thirty minutes later.

>>9937608
What's wrong with sea roaches? They are delicious.

>>9939274
So you went full traditional up in this bitch.

>>9940716
>Chinese makes you hungry 30 min later

I've literally never understood this normie meme. I could barely finish the plate, and I took a nap between eating it because I was so full. And then I was stuffed into the wee hours of the morning.

>>9938684
This and salt & pepper shrimp are maybe the most underrated Chinese dishes out there.

>>9939362
that lo mein on the bottom looks taaaaaasty

>>9941135
I always assume these fools fill up on rice. That will have you hungry an hour or two later.

fuck this thread made me hungry for chinese. I'm gonna order some for dinner, what should i get for the main course (i'm gonna get some crab rangoon on the side). I want a tasty noodle dish not named lo mein or singapore noodles which is what i normally get and like. (no pad thai)

>>9937597
crab rangoons are a favorite, same with spicy beef and brocolli.
Sadly my last rangoon orders from my local place were all cream cheese and not much else.

>>9941606
fuck noodles
here's what you do: Beef fried rice and egg rolls. Split the eggroll lengthwise and scoop out all the gay cabbage shit and refill with fried rice. Pour some soy sauce in them and eat like some ancient chinese king

Man I want some shrimp on a stick

>>9941647
NO NIGGER FRIED RICE IS GOOD BUT I WANT NOODLES, GIVE ME NOODLES NIGGER

Tfw your bulimic and hit up the local Chinese buffet

>>9937597
roast duck
mic drop.

>>9941682
>binge on pizza
>hit up local chinese buffet
>vomit in the food trays
I do this too

>>9941606
Crab Rangoon is my pregnancy craving food. And bro Singapore noodles are patrician as fuck, trust your gut. Literally my 2 favorite things.

>>9938505
Maybe it was the MSG

>>9937597
I went to Shanghai and a few surrounding areas 3 years ago. I still dream about the xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) and the shengjianbao (kind of like a pan-fried, slightly doughier version of xiaolongbao) I had there. Like, fuck. They were both so incredible. I also had this tofu dish that was like a roasted tofu skin with a reduced slightly sweetened soy and vinegar sauce. I have no idea what it was but I drink about it to this day.

Mapo doufu is also delicious.

Sergeant Major Tso’s Chicken

>>9942861
>xiaolongbao

Is this what you call "soupy dumplings"? You know, the ones with the twisty hole on top where you can suck the juices from and scald your mouth with deliciousness? I rarely see these at dim sum/high quality cuisine Chinese spots.

On that note, does anyone know of a dish that I've only seen at one place that's since closed: crispy beef? It was a nice sit down, cloth table restaurant. The texture was unbelievable.

>>9943079
yep, xaiolongbao are "shanghai soup dumplings." it's a pork mince with spices and some gelatinous soup that, when steamed, turns into a delicious scalding amazingness.

protip: place a soup dumpling in a dumpling spoon. pierce it with a chopstick to let the liquid out, let it cool a sec and then slurp that shit down cause it's amazing. then dip your spoon (with dumpling in it) into a little dip of soy vinegar sauce, and eat the rest of it in one bite.

>>9943079
Might've been tangbao. Tangbao have a soft, unfermented dough, just like a dumpling, whereas xiaolongbao have fermented dough like a baozi. Tangbao are way better imqho

>>9937629
After watching this I am pleased to see that my style of cooking meaty saucy foods like this which I thought was half-assed and full of corner cutting (using bouillon powder, velveting, boiling the meat in low heated oily water as opposed to just deep frying in 100% oil) is in fact authentically similar to the way of a Chinese master.

Then he dropped those huge ladles of oil afterward and I died of a heart attack right then and there.

>>9943079
crispy beef is easy to make. You should just google it. It's mainly beef cut into strips then air dried then rolled in corn starch. Deep fry the fuckers then toss in your asian sauce of choice.

>>9937641
Did he creampie you or pull out?

>>9937597
gimme dat beef chow fun and summa dat char siu. and some fuckin duck, nigga. and the chinese broccolis with oyster sauce

>>9938716
what do i say if i want to order that but don't speak receipt printer

>>9937597
I had some pork kidney stir fry from a place that had two menus. The first menu was the american Chinese menu and the other was the Chinese Chinese menu. Said fuck it and went for the interesting shit.

The stir fry was really nice. Packed a lot of wallop but that's what I was paying for. I think the next time I go there I will order the cold dish of pork maws. Those are supposed to be the hottest things on the menu.

>>9937597
2x Spicy is the ultimate pleb filter

>>9937597
That looks really unappetizing as far as Chinese food is concerned. My shitty local Chinese buffet has more appetizing "chinese" food.

>>9937597
>Drinking canned soy milk with Chinese food

How much cock do you suck on a daily basis?

>>9943129
That sounds amazing, do you happen to have any recipes available?

>>9943079
Crispy beef is common in Chinese places in the UK, so I've emulated it a few times. >>9943187 is pretty on point. Worth knocking up your own soy/rice vinegar/honey/chili paste sauce.

>>9943414
I've never made them myself, but you can't go wrong with a good KLA recipe: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/04/soup-dumplings-xiao-long-bao-recipe.html

>>9943458
I do have a couple of chicken carcasses in the freezer I could use for the stock. I'll look into it in a week or two, thank you.

>>9943489
Nice, good luck! Make a post if it turns out well!

Tofu and eggplant in garlic sauce with rice is the shit.

>>9943496
Sure thing, it's been some time since I exposed myself to being hated on here and it might be a nice change from doing the hating myself.

>>9943513
I laughed. It's always good to expose yourself to unfounded vitriolic hatred from anonymous strangers on the internet after experimenting with a new food recipe.

>>9941387
enjoy your sea roach

>>9942861
If anyone cares, I just messaged my Chinese friend and found out the tofu thing I ate wasn't actually tofu, it was something called Hong Shao Kao Fu (红烧烤麸) which is a wheat gluten based dish. I'm going to try to find some place in NYC that makes it (shouldn't be too hard).

>>9938505
the use shitty syscofoods for the ingredients. find one that gets all their stuff from a real chinese supplier

>>9944255
what the hell are we looking at here

Egg Fu Yung is way up on my list. So is My Shu, and a lot of Sichuan dishes like chili pigs ear, spicy cumin lamb, Sichuan dumplings, and shredded pork and pickle vegetable soup.

>>9943505

I'd agree, this shit is the best. I'm also a big fan of Egg foo young.

>>9944322
Chinese pixel stew

>>9944051
If you want killer Xiao long bao go to Kung Fu Xiao Long Bao in Flushing. Totally worth the trip. They have 4 different kinds: traditional, seafood, winter melon, and chocolate.

>>9944368
Oh man, Flushing has some of the best actual Chinese food I've ever had outside of China. I'm pretty far away in Brooklyn, though, so I rarely make it out there. Thanks for the rec, though, I'll make a trip to Queens and give it a try!

>>9944322
offal fried and stewed with so many mouth-numbing ingredients that you can't taste anything

>>9937934
i live in south florida and have access to two decent chinkies and maybe one nip fusion restaurant. is this meme worth falling for? i always see it on the menus and it's always on /ck/. not a big tofu fan at all the only times i've ever had it are when other people cook it or buy it for me, i've never purchased it on my own
thanks for reading my faggy blog

>>9942708
fuck off slut

mongolian chicken. pretty easy to make and tastes great

>>9939274
>Meicai braised pork belly -- Some kind of weird stewed vegetable (mustard greens?) with stewed fatty pork belly slices. Looks terrible, but the meat can be the most delicious pork in existence.
this is the next level shit son
gonna add xinjiang style cumin lamb to your list

>>9944517
don't order ma po from generic american chinese takeouts

>>9937609
Some people care about their health amerimutt.

>>9937597
My go-to order at any cheap Americanized Chinese place is
>Pepper steak, no tomato
>fried rice
>spring roll, hot mustard for dipping

I loved hicken kung pao and porm meat on onions at my local chinese restaurant, it was so good...

And then one day i went there for lunch and usual and the doors were locked with an A4 taped to them... it said "Closed by the department of health"
SO i looked it up online where the health inspectors posted pictures and i will never set a foot into another chinese restaurant ever again.
Fucking rotten meat used for cooking, mouse droppings in the meat, meat stored on the GROUND. Floors and tables covered in dirt,grease, dust and more mouse shit.
They opened again one day later (after cleaning up) and clueless cuck costumers flocked there since they didn't know.
And this is the overall theme with chink restaurants, like 9/10 do not pass a health inspection when it happens.
So no more chinese food for this guy.

>>9944994
>hicken kung pao and porm meat

sounds exotic

>>9944994
welcome to america, your dining choices are filthy but tasty or applebees / olive garden tier bullshit

Chinese food in Australia is expensive as fuck

>Pay for entree
>Pay for dish
>Pay for rice
>$74.50

>>9945930
Really? In Auckland it's by far the cheapest high quality restaurant meal you can get. There are expensive places, but pic related is quite typical, and extremely good.
around 10-$15 for hand pulled noodle & meat or rice dish if you're by yourself. For a group it's like; (BIG fucking portions)

12$ for 20 pork & chive dumpings, steamed or fried
$4 for spring onion pancake
$15 for pork belly in brown sauce
$16 for sizzling beef
$16 for deep fried squid
$12 for stir fried bok choi with garlic
$14 for mapo tofu
$8 for cucumber salad
maybe $10 on rice
byo
free tea

That's less than $110 and enough food to absolutely feast with 4-5 people. That's not a shitty place either, that's like, some of the best Chinese food, food period, that you can get. I have eaten a lot in china as well. I guess if you get a tonne of chinks in a city shouldn't this stuff automatically be available to you? Chinks don't fuck around dude. I thought you had a tonne of them in sydney, melbourne etc?

Like yeah, in rural shitholes here its expensive/ absolute garbage too.

>>9945864
Maybe if you're a flyover

>>9946008
You Aussies are a trip.

There's some dishes on there I don't see too often.

>>9943129
You son of a bitch.
>pierce it with a chopstick to let the liquid out
You're ruining your dumplings, you fucking asshole. Did you learn that "technique" from the "hipster's guide to eating new foods"? Fuck you.

>>9946421
I learned it from my Chinese friend. That's how you're supposed to eat it. But whatever, it's just food, enjoy scalding your entire mouth trying to eat it all in one bite.

>>9937597
dog

>>9946440
I've been eating them since before you were born, I think I'll be just fine
>I learned it from my Chinese friend
Of course you did.

>>9937597
Daboo frie haw'por (twice cooked pork) is traditional, delicious, and seldom if ever mentioned in these threads.

>>9937597
>literally drinking soy

>>9937597
Lieutenant Tso's
Fried rice
Egg roll

>no mention of Hong Kong style clay pot rice

wtf ...........................???????

>>9946008
where the fuck do you live that fried rice is $12

>>9946463
Not the person you're replying to, but I literally went to Beijing and Shanghai recently, and I was shown the same thing. If you eat it whole, it's really easy to burn your mouth to hell and back.

>>9943969
What's with this new meme of foreigners calling shrimp sea roach?

>>9944773
Looks decent as long as there's not too much soy sauce and tastes like it.

>>9938695
>try to find a place that serves kung pao chicken
you're a douche

>>9939274
I mean if we're going with actual Chinese food:

Biang biang mian

>>9937597
Why is shitty buffet fare so tasty? I miss living near a half-decent buffet since the one i'm near now is actual garbage.

>>9944773
What recipe do you use?

>>9946008
Oh shit, give me those delicious fucking pork joints. I've only seen it at one place in Sweden and the place closed down a decade ago.

>>9946864
It's not a meme. It's a fact of life

>>9946647
Australia has a weak dollar.

>>9947503
no. you disappoint me with your lack of intelligence, foreigner.

I am cantonese. Our food includes

Siu Laap* including:
Roast Pork
Roast Duck / Pork
Char Siu

+White Cut Chicken

Noodles including:
Wheat
Egg - Most commonly Wonton Noodles
Rice* (thick) - "Fun"
Rice* (thin)
Cellophane - "Fun si"

Which can be served in a soup, or dry, pan-fried, or deep fried

Same includes for Dumplings
In a soup (wontons), pan fried (pot stickers)

Congee*

Seafood including:
Bone in Fish, steamed, fried
Shrimp, my favorite is fried with chilis
Crab
Lobster
Abalone
Jellyfish
Sea cucumber
Sea Slug

Then baked goods: Pineapple Buns, Steamed Buns, Mantou (white bread), Macau Pastries (Dan Tat/ )

Then Zongzi "Zong" (a cousin of Tamales)

*unique to cantonese

>>9937597
No clue what it was called, but I grew up really good friends with a first generation immigrant and his family. I ate over at there house like once a week or so, and shit was bomb. Best thing was this super spicy chicken-stew(ish) thing. Still no clue what it was called.

>>9947606
fuck off

what can i get you senpai ?

>>9949717
I'll have a bean sprouts salad, and pork and cabbage dumplings please. Thanks senpai.

>>9949737
fried or steamed dumplings?

>>9949781
Steamed please. Contrasts the crunchy bean sprouts.

You're ordering for 10 people including your new chinese inlaws. What do you get?

>>9949799
good choice

>>9938505
>they had much better Chinese food when I was growing up
Sure thing, gramps.

>>9937597
Okay, what the fuck is this? This is not chinese food, what is this
>>9937609
People can care about calories and not be gay, I know this may come as a surprise to you.
>>9938348
> panda express
ew typical 鬼佬 chinese, kill yourself

>>9938695
>>9938716
kek
>>9937629
>>9937934
>>9939274
>>9939373
100% certified 美味
>>9944773
>>9947104
Meh tier, but it's pretty decent
>>9939374
This is a Traditional Chinese Medicine thing anon, nobody actually eats this as a normal meal.
>>9946647
12 NZD =! 12 USD you faggot

>>9946720
> eating it whole
you retard

>>9947799
I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to see food I grew up with. Also congee isn't unique to cantonese, it's pretty widespread across all of Asia.

Also, while not food, it's worth mentioning
> Hong Kong Milk Tea

>>9949801
what the fuck is 90% of this shit?

>>9937597
>tfw live in a Chinese family and the food is awful besides the five spice pork and the mapo tofu
Kill me, can someone give me a good place to learn actual good Chinese recipes?

>>9937597
Steamed dumpling (Ha kao and those with pork in them (won ton?)) are my all time favourite.
Then, if its a real restaurant : either the Peking duck if the place has a good reputation for it, or noodles with meat, can't go wrong.
Never tried proper chinese desserts.
If I am at a buffet place I usually take fried shrimps with salt&pepper, caramel pork and others.

>>9937597
Hui Guo Rou and Mabodofu
I do not know the English translations because they always sound very clunky.

water boiled fish

gonna make hong shao rou tomorrow. anyone have a recipe they like? i did it a while ago turned out pretty pretty good but i'd be open to something different

>>9937608
>>9940751
Love me some pi pi xia

>>9937597
>What are your very favorite Chinese food dishes?

Chinese specially made "Yellow Chocolate"

>>9952239
Not really recipe, but make it simple and you should make a whole load so you have leftovers which you can add ingredients for variation.

- potatoes to soak up that flavourful juice and oil
- chilis to make a sweet and spicy version
- tofu for when you start running out of fatty peices
- baicai for something lighter

Endless variations.

>>9952267
had these in hk. not that great. but that might have just been by comparison having it along side some amazing crab, razor clams and roast pigeon.

For me, it's staff sergeant tso's

Also tso sauce needs peanut oil, its like 2/3 of the restaurants dont use it in their tsos

>>9952325
In one meal? That's too many rich flavors.

Pi pi xia is a simple family gathering food. You need to go the fish market to pick out a bunch of fat ones, lightly boil in some slightly salt water, and dip in a little soy sauce when you peel and eat it.

>>9949717
The number 17 looks good!