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Which cuisine is better, Chinese or Mexican?

>> No.17977375

>>17977354
>can I get an objective answer to a subjective question?
You’re a fucking idiot, son.

>> No.17977380

>>17977354
mexican.
>>17977375
eating food cooked with oil not made from cooking sewage is objectively better, anon.

>> No.17977386

>>17977375
I don't expect the answers to be objective.

>> No.17977401

>>17977386
Best learn English then, retard.

>> No.17977403

>>17977354
near me a fancy Mexican place is nicer than a fancy Chinese place so Mexican.

>> No.17977413

>>17977403
>bases cuisine on establishment instead of cuisine
proto-sigma.

>> No.17977420

Mexican is tastier on average but it has the flaw of few vegetables

>> No.17977811

Mexican, but uyghur lamb skewers are the best thing out of China

>> No.17978276

>>17977354
Can anyone explain to me why chinese food is always sweet? I always thought it was gross. Not just take-out, because that's obviously just garbage, but most of the "good" traditional chinese food I've eaten at (according to chinks), I would say 2/3rds of the food has a lingering sweetness to it, the Chinese sausage for example. My grandpa is a chink and occasionally will hand out some lap cheong and I try to cook with it but it's as sweet as it is salty.

I am legitimately curious about this, as someone of minimal asian descent I find it strange that I find their food to be pretty intolerable. I just want to discover the motivations of my bugman ancestors

>> No.17978297

>>17978276
gookslop

>> No.17978311

Mexican. When they have a dish made out 5-6(aguachile) ingredients taste as good as one with 40(mole) then they're doing something right

>> No.17978327

>>17977354
I would say their averages are pretty close, but chinese has a much larger deviation.
That means that great chinese food, in my opinion, tastes better than great mexican food.
But on the flipside, bad chinese food can be disgusting and borderline inedible, while all bad mexian food I have had was always at least serviceable.

If I had to choose which one to keep, I would personally choose chinese food. It's also what I am more likely to cook for myself.
If I was over at a friends place who wasn't that great of a cook and they made both mexican and chinese food and asked me what I wanted, I would choose the mexican food.
Both of these cuisines have some absolutely great dishes though and choosing between them is hard. There's a shitton of other cuisines I would rather sacrifice than either of them.

>> No.17978337

>>17978276
>Can anyone explain to me why chinese food is always sweet?
It's really not, there are a lot of chinese local cuisines that aren't sweet. But some areas of chinese cooking have a tendency to have a decent amount of sugar in their sauces, which is something that I noticed when I was in china as well. Tasting crispy pork with a sweet red sauce is great the first time, but after a week you feel like you will become a diabetic. As I visited other areas I noticed though, that these were pretty local. Also when I visited a chinese family their dishes weren't sweet at all for the most part.
For some reason those sweet dishes have moved over to the west a lot more though, so most inauthentic chinese restaurants where I live serve the sweet shit.
>but most of the "good" traditional chinese food
Do you remember what type of cuisine it was? That may explain things.

>> No.17978804

>>17978337
To my understanding, Fujian and Shanghai have more sweet dishes.
And I think Cantonese too with sweet and sour pork + their roast pork which is a bit sweet.

>> No.17979103

>>17977354
I have to pick chinese, since it's just insane asylum food with mind break sauces and spices. I just love how fucking in your face it can get. And I honestly respect the shit out of the fact that they are uninhibited what comes to raw ingredients; no food taboos. Bugmen are doing to food what Jacque Cousteau did to oceanography.

But I like thai food even more.

>> No.17979107

Chinese because it has a lot more variety.

>> No.17979299

>>17977354
Mexican
>Generally cheaper (3 tacos for $7.50 at my favorite taqueria vs $13 for an entre at any of the Chinese places)
>Almost pure protein (unlike Chinese, which is mostly veggies and rice)
>Tastes better (this is subjective, maybe the Chinese in my town just fucking sucks.)

>> No.17979308

>>17977401
>>17977375
We're a dying breed. ESL normalfags can't keep out of our autism hut.

>> No.17979322

>>17979308
It's difficult communicating with someone who has a rudimentary grasp of english, Deng. How many years of shitposting do you have left before they'll let you see your wife and kid again?

>> No.17979327

>>17979322
Hopefurry as many as possibre ahahahahaha

>> No.17979600

>>17979107
I see people claim this a lot but I watch a lot of food videos from China and the ingredients seem pretty repetitive in most of China
Like in Mr Mai's videos, he goes all over inner China. They make similar braised chicken dishes with a bunch of peppers and the same aromatics/spices more or less.

>> No.17979609

>>17979299
Any chinese dish had like ten times the calories as three shitty tacos.

>> No.17979632

>>17978276
I think sugar is seen less as a dessert specific thing and more as part of balancing a dish, so every course has dishes that range from unsweetened to fully sugary. So you get stuff like candied pork on one and and red bean popsicles on the other. People see the resulting range as Chinese mains being weirdly sweet and Chinese desserts being weirdly unsweet.

>> No.17979848

>>17977354
mexican does have the superior steamed dish in tamales. fried mexicans win. chips and salsa the ultimate appetizer. bbq and roast gotta hand it to the chinks. what else is there.

>> No.17979861

>>17979600
The difference is the Chinese can swap one ingredient and change up the dish. The mexicans can change every ingredient and it still tastes like meat slow cooked in cumin and coriander wrapped in a fucking corn tortilla with the same fucking salsa.

>> No.17979925

>>17979848
>mexican does have the superior steamed dish in tamales
IDK about that, I love tamales but I eat a lot more dumplings than tamales. I'd also say you're wrong about the ultimate appetizer because that's fried calamari but that's neither here nor there. Otherwise I agree with you.

>> No.17980071

>>17979861
Bullshit. Most Szechuan and Hunan dishes have the same flavor profile more less
While with Mexican you can have 3 moles from the same part of Mexico that taste completely different
Even with taco fillings:
Carne asada, tinga, al pastor, carne enchilada, etc. taste much different from each other

>> No.17980112

>>17980071
> Most Szechuan and Hunan dishes have the same flavor profile more less
I don’t know about that, bud.

>> No.17980173

>>17980112
>tons of garlic
>pickled chilies, fresh chilies, dry chilies
>szechuan peppercorns
>tons of oil
>choice of protein

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>>17977354

>> No.17980187

>>17980177
Why does Saudi Arabia hate Thai food so much? If not for those asshats Thai would be number 3

>> No.17980188

>>17977354
real chinese food is disgusting, real mexican food is delicious
as for americanized versions, mexico still wins

>> No.17980194

>>17980187
They probably had westernised Thai which is bland as fuck. Are whitoids allergic to lime?

>> No.17980206

>>17980071
BULLSHIT WITH TWO REGIONS YOU GET SAME THING WHILE WITH ENTIRE COUNTRY YOU GET LOTS THING

nice comparison

>> No.17980336

Mexican sushi is excellent.

>> No.17980579

>>17980336
What is that, ceviche?

>> No.17980583

>>17977811
based genocide cuisine poster

>> No.17980711

Chinese street food looks even less hygienic than Mexican street food

>> No.17980766

>>17980711
Chinese food will straight up kill you why do they care there are 6 billion of them:

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17980797

>>17977811
NO ONE EATS UYGHUR LAMBS, ALL THE LAMBS ARE HAPPY IN THEIR FIELDS LIVING WELL AND NO ONE IS EVER KILLING THEM! ANY OTHER CLAIMS ARE RACIST AND PROPAGANDA!

>> No.17980807

>>17977354
Mexican food is just the same slop served in either a soft or crispy flat bread

>> No.17980895

>>17977354
Chinese because noodles are awesome and there is a broader range of things to try. i still like Mexican its mostly just stuff in flat bread and chips and dip.

>> No.17981242

>>17980807
>>17980895
lol this is wrong though. Mexican isn't just Tex-Mex sloppa stuff

>> No.17981449

Chinese has the advantage of a lot more vegetable.s
However I find Mexican to be more satisfying on average

>> No.17982098

>>17980797
Thank you for clearing that up, Chang!
.05 Good Citizen points have been added to your social credit score. Please keep these anti-racist posts up and inform about the Glorious CCP! Our dear leader thanks you

>> No.17982679

>>17980173
Hunan has less chillis and garlic, but more sugar

>> No.17982683

>>17980188
> real chinese food is disgusting
T. Stupid bitchniggerfaggot

>> No.17982686

>>17977354
The Mexican food cooked in the US not in Mexico.

>> No.17982697

I bet most amerifats itt don’t even know what the dish in OP is.
That’s pork kidney.

>> No.17982751

>>17982697
Why do they love pork kidney so much?
Doesn't it taste like piss?

>> No.17982822

>>17982751
They’re typically sourced from young pigs and the preparation removes the white glands.
It’s very tasty.

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>>17982751

>> No.17983015

>>17977354
Mexican, because regardless of which restaurant you are going to, a Mexican will still be cooking it

>> No.17983040

Chinese has more variety, so Chinese

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17983046

>>17981242
Oh yeah they serve diarrhea too

>> No.17983056

>>17977354
The worst Mexican is still better than the best Chinese.

>> No.17983062

>>17983056
>Mm beans
Hi wetback

>> No.17983243

>>17977354
Chinese and it's not even close

>> No.17983289

Mexico by far. The flavors are better. You get a bit of italian, japanese, spanish, chinese, french , american and african and most importantly, it's a more progressive cuisine.

>> No.17983296

>>17983040
Japanese doesn't have the most variety but people will mostly prefer it over chinese. variety doesn't matter when the majority is shit. Most of Mexican food is edible for the most part so it's superior

>> No.17983304

>>17983062
Don't you have a dog to eat and kids to kill Chang? NTA btw

>> No.17983323

>>17977354
Hmmm MSG cuisine or Carb and Fats Feast for today? Tough choice.

>> No.17983404

>>17983296
As much as I want to love Japanese food, I can't. Outside of Ramen and Okonomiyaki most of the food has the same flavor. It's not bad by no means but it isn't isn't on my bucket list when I think of foods to try out. Why is Japanese food taste the same?

>> No.17983940

>>17983289
Chinese cuisine evolves too.

>> No.17983944

>>17983243
It is definitely close.

>> No.17983989

>>17983940
all cuisines do. if this thread was made 12 years ago then I would have said chinese but there isn't a cuisine that is putting out new creations as much as Mexico.

>> No.17984028

>>17979861
>in cumin and coriander
That's American food, not mexican

>> No.17984688

>>17977354
I will pick Chinese 10x out of 10. I just prefer Asian food in general. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, and Thai are all in my top 10 before other regions even show up.

>> No.17984913

>>17983989
are you talking about Haute Mex?

>> No.17984914

>>17984028
Mexican food definitely uses cilantro a lot but so does Chinese

>> No.17985676

I just wish Mexican food featured more vegetables

>> No.17985726

>>17977354
Chinese is much much more diverse and interesting, so Chinese.
Delicious or not is actually depends on the chef.
>>17977380
Retarded zoomers

>> No.17985751

>>17978276
sounds like you're eating cantonese food anon
zhejiang or guizhou food isn't sweet for example

>> No.17985768

Isn’t there some interesting Mexican-Chinese food in places where Chinese immigrants settled in Mexico?

>> No.17985791

Mexico wins on every calibre

>women
Mexico
>alcohol
Mexico
>breakfast
Mexico (chilequiles)
>normie pic
Mexico (tacos or burritos)
>drink
Mexico (horchata)

>> No.17986113

>>17984914
Nah, just a sprinkle on the top

>> No.17986522

>>17985726
>>17983296
Diverse doesn't mean good when half of the food taste like shit. Both countries have good food regions from north to south but Mexico's food is WAY better on average.

>> No.17986585

>>17985676
The only Mexican vegetables are after the cartel gets ahold of them.

>> No.17986598

8/10 people will tell me they did not have a good food experience in China outside of Hong Kong

>> No.17986702

>>17986598
Hong Kong is china

>> No.17986713

>>17977354
mexican because cheese

>> No.17986761

Chinese cuisine is objectively shit
>menu has 20 items all listed as chicken
>literally identical in every way to the beef items
>and the seafood
>and the veggie
>just different meat

>all 20 items on the menu are stir fry with slightly different ingredients

>> No.17986763

>>17977354
it's the same food and mexicans cook all of it

>> No.17986766

>>17980797
Can't wait till the war in Taiwan starts so we can start getting some sweet Xi monke memes.

>> No.17986818

>>17985726
>soy sauce, garlic, ginger, shaoxing wine, and chilies in every dish
>more diverse

>> No.17986834

>>17977354
Mexican

>> No.17986847

>>17977375
Yes
Mexican is spicy

>> No.17986945

>>17977354
you really asking this on a majority american website, with half of these americans being spics?

>> No.17987010

>>17986945
stfu chang

>> No.17987047

>>17986945
Asian here only whites eat Chinese food

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>>17987010

>> No.17987168

>>17987047
No we don't.

>>17977354
There's no such thing as Mexican or Chinese nations. Only states. Mayan, Olmek, Aztek, Sinaloan cuisines are actually interesting. Mexican or Chinese cuisine is garbage fast food for Americans and their clit lickers.

>> No.17987202

>>17986945
Shut up stormweeb

>> No.17987483

>>17987168
*tips fedora*

>> No.17987734

Why does Chinese food often smell bad?
I order from these authentic Chinese places pretty often and like 1/3 to 1/2 of the dishes smell bad
Sometimes like feet and sometimes like burnt play dough or something like that

>> No.17988142

Do Szechuanese women take fiery dumps all the time?
Their food has so muching chilies in it

>> No.17988505

>>17983046
this is unironically the best sauce you'll ever have over your food, anywhere

>> No.17988705

>>17988505
Yeah it's fucking delicious and that guy is a tendiefag

>> No.17988710

>>17977354
mexican if you want at least SOME dairy, chinky for more fiber...so obviously mexican is the real answer

>> No.17988929

>>17988710
Mexican has a lot of fiber (beans), though way less vegetables

>> No.17989336

>better street food
>better raw dishes
>better sauces
>better meat
Yeah Mexico wins
China has better soup and side dishes I guess

>> No.17989347

>>17989336
China has amazing sauces though

>> No.17990460

>>17989347
Yeah they have a lot of great braised dishes

>> No.17990474

>>17977354
Indian

>> No.17990558

Objectively rating the cuisine probably the Chinese one is "better". China was less colonized and therefore fewer traditions were lost. Also, it is a larger country with more diversity (not to say that Mexico is not large or diverse).
Chinese culture also puts a lot of emphasis on food so I expect that you could find a lot of quality restaurants in China (also a question of the economic situation in a particular region).

>> No.17990603

>>17990558
Nope the Mexicans are as obsessed as the Japanese with food. less colonized means fewer techniques and more absurd food that would be considered inedible in today's standards

>> No.17990640

>>17990558
It seems like China has a larger amount (proportionally) of higher end restaurants while it seems like the focus in Mexico tends to be street food

>> No.17990677
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17990677

>>17977354
>Which cuisine is better, Chinese or Mexican?
Mexican by far.
>>17977420
>Mexican is tastier on average but it has the flaw of few vegetables
Pfft. No it doesn't.>>17983289
>Mexico by far. The flavors are better. You get a bit of italian, japanese, spanish, chinese, french , american and african and most importantly, it's a more progressive cuisine.
Don't forget Lebanese.

>> No.17990700

>>17977354
>Americanized
Chinese
>Traditional
Mexican

>> No.17990707

>>17990677
Mexican really doesn't have a lot of vegetables.

>> No.17990714

>>17990603
Yeah, Mexicans do not fuck around with food. They take it autistically seriously and frankly the world is a better place for it.

>> No.17991509

>>17990714
Does Mexico have a lot of good "mid range" food or is it 90% street food and the rest haute Mexican that only rich people eat?

>> No.17991570

>>17977354
dutch "chink" food is pretty good, chink food

>> No.17991577

>>17977354
Mexican. Chinese have a few decent dishes (though Mexican has better) and the rest is utter garbage.

>> No.17991699

>>17991509
Mexican food is like 50% street food, 30% comida corrida and the rest mid and haute cuisine

>> No.17992369

>>17991699
This is an area where Chinese wins then. Being heavily street food oriented is a con of Mexican cuisine IMO

>> No.17993081

>>17992369
this
I hope higher end Mexican cuisine becomes more of a thing

>> No.17993162

>>17977354
I love Mexican, but Chinese has this in the bag easy. Dish variety alone puts it in another league compared to Mexican. If you limited it to just Cantonese or something it might be a contest, but as you phrased the question it's not even close.

>> No.17993169

>>17993162
chinese and variety are vague. when people think of chinese variety the only think of the good stuff and not the crap they eat back in the mainland

>> No.17993177

>>17993162
I think the variety of China is a *little* overstated if you only count Han China
I watch Mr Mai's videos and the food doesn't look that different on average, he goes all over China. There is a big difference between say, Cantonese and Szechuan. But less of a difference between Szechuan and everywhere else in non-Southeast China

>> No.17993186

>>17993177
For instance, the braised chicken dishes look very similar to me whether it's Szechuan, Chongqing, Anhui, Shandong, etc.

>> No.17993512

do the Chinese generally not devein their shrimp?

>> No.17993516

>>17977354
CHINESE
JAPANESE
MILK CARTON
DOLLY PARTON

>> No.17993676

>>17977354
Chinese, Mexican food is just different variations of cheese, tomato, meat, lettuce, beans and flour.

>> No.17993682

>>17993676
that's tex mex

>> No.17993698

>>17993682
its just slop like their people

>> No.17995157

Bump

>> No.17995812

Real Chinese food > Mexican food > murican Chinese food

>> No.17995826

chinese all day every day

>> No.17997229

I feel like Chinese has higher highs and lower lows

>> No.17997837

Which country has better women?

>> No.17998094

>>17977380
Confirmed for not knowing about mexican street food.

>> No.17998097

>>17978276
Your chinese family is probably just from a place that likes sweet aftertaste. Everything my family ate was savory, we barely even ate red bean paste.

>> No.17998100

>>17988705
Ironically tendies tastes delicious with mole.
Sucks for him I guess.

>> No.17998127

>>17977354
So I have a sinmple answer to this. I would say chinese is better, overall, but because the chinese are fucking retarded enough to use a spice that numbs your tongue and makes you unable to taste things, I have to go with mexican. Whoever thought deliberately numbing peoples' tongues was a good idea is a painfully retarded piece of shit.

>> No.17998600

>>17977354
Chinese has way more diversity and variety, its like asking what is better, Mexican or European?

>> No.17998602

>>17977380
You know that Mexicans eat stuff that would make even the most robust Chinaman's toes curl

>> No.17998614

>>17998127
But szechuan peppercorn doesn't numb your tongue? The term numbing is a misnomer it excites the nerves on the tip of your tongue to create a tingling sensation and it doesn't make your tongue insensitive to other flavours either. It just pairs so well with chilli though.

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17998626

>>17998602
Yeah. Like Ze Bugs.

jk though to answer OP's question, it's Mexican, hands-down.

>> No.17999279

>>17998600
It's not as diverse as people on here claim

>> No.17999282

>>17998602
Szechuan and Hunan are way hotter than Mexican

>> No.17999304

>>17979299
to be fair, the rice is mostly for cooking other foods (with its heat)