One overlooked dish - not my go to mind you- is double cooked pork., it's like thick cut bacon with the dripping mixed with soy blend sauce dripping over river.
Beyond the sneezeguard, what's to prevent the average idiot from contaminating your food, if sitting around for hours in a steam table that you hope is keeping it above 140F hasn't already.
Chinese - great thing about Brooklyn, plenty of authentic places. Good Sichuan place nearby makes a killer Qong Qing chicken, which is about the spiciest thing they can crank out (and that you'll crank out hours later). The Sichuan peppers actually numb your tongue after they burn it, which is pretty weird, and have an almost licorice aftertaste.
Standard fare, can't go wrong with Hunan chicken, Singapore mei fun and sesame chicken.
but when we go visit family, takeout is awesome beef tendon wonton noodle soup (I prefer rice noodles in mine) and a type of beef ho fun with black bean suace and green peppers in gravy. Ho fun is my favorite dish but I can't stand that dry(ish) dish with bean sprouts which is what you mostly see in take-out places (and what I think is what you guys are talking about). I like it wet. And always, always, always with our takeout we have have Cantonese roast duck (cut up Chinese style) and Char siu.
is a medley of apps: a large wonton, egg roll, scallion pancakes, and dumplings/cold sesame noodles/spare ribs/roasted pork (1 of). If we order from one place in particular (Pig Heaven), pork soong is the 4th app.
If Im getting main dishes, crispy roasted chicken, moo shu pork, kung pao chicken, or chicken w/ garlic sauce.
It's not what I think of when I hear Chinese food (although it's a damn sight better than Matt's egg foo yung), but it's a good dish anyway. It's actually really simple to make at home; I did it a couple days ago using a recipe that I cribbed from Serious Eats and I thought it was really good and easy to do. I don't get it often at takeout place but if I have a craving from now on, I 'm going to do it at home. Serious Eats General Tso. - ( New Window )
local Chinese restaurant and what their specialties were.
In Berkeley, with a great (mostly Cantonese) Chinese restaurant <5 mins drive from home, it would like have been Mu Shoo Pork, Beef with Leeks in Black Bean sauce, fillets of "Halibut" with Chinese greens (baby bok choi) or steamed Steelhead fillets with black bean sauce and chicken and garlic or green onions/ ginger stir fry with whatever seasonal vegetable was featured - often asparagus or snow peas. They also made a very good hot and sour soup.
If we came early (around 5-5:30 PM) when the staff was eating, we might ask for something we noticed off the menu on the staff dinner table...
When I lived in Manhattan, on the upper west side near different Human or Szechuan style Chinese restaurants, it would have been an entirely different set of choices aside from the Mu Shoo Pork.
because I can't readily make them at home as well. Sushi, for the lack of sushi grade fish, and Chinese because to really get the flavor right you need a wok heated to just about the melting point of carbon steel, which isn't happening in my kitchen.
as simple as Chicken Chow Mein does it for me. I pulverize a bag of the crispy noodles that come with the order, then mix it in with rice, duck sauce, hot mustard and I'm good.
RE: RE: Have not eaten Chinese food in over 10 years.
Too many cleanliness reports are centered around these establishments and I have sworn not eat such.
Have you heard of people actually getting sick from chinese food though? Woks are like a million degrees hot.
A Chinese Buffet up here got shut down once. Health inspector made them throw big boxes of stinky, out of code chicken. Watched them throw it in the dumpster.
He told me this at a diner counter right down the street immediately afterwards. And he told me he was going RIGHT BACK to check that dumpster.
That Buffet was shut down for good the next day. They pulled the rotten meat OUT of the dumpster.
I don't care WHAT kind of restaurant it is - you gotta WATCH for cleanliness.
go to PF Chang's for Chinese. Ill order Cantonese noodles with chicken or beef a la Szechuan(spicy). I do not go other Chinese restaurants they are way to sketchy for my liking
Sorry about that. But it's a random and rare event. Not sure you should reject an entire cuisine because of it.
It's not that I think eating Chinese food will make me sick again, it's just that the reminder turns my stomach. I know it's irrational, and I'm sure at some point I will eat it again since I used to be a big fan. It happened about a year ago.
when we order in as a family, there is always a lo mein or chow fun dish. We may vary a lot after that.
For some reason, about once a year I get a craving for egg foo young. It sort of serves as a cleanse, so to speak.
Eggplant. Spicy shrimp. Lamb. Duck. It's all good.
Have you heard of people actually getting sick from chinese food though? Woks are like a million degrees hot.
Yum.
Chow fun is my go to at Chinese American places.
I get the General's Toes.
His toes sure were a funny shape...
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Too many cleanliness reports are centered around these establishments and I have sworn not eat such.
Have you heard of people actually getting sick from chinese food though? Woks are like a million degrees hot.
Yes but that is why I'll never go to a Chinese buffet again.
Usually I'm not allowed to get Chinese. I get really deadly farts. I think they smell like Chinese everyone else disagrees.
Chinese - great thing about Brooklyn, plenty of authentic places. Good Sichuan place nearby makes a killer Qong Qing chicken, which is about the spiciest thing they can crank out (and that you'll crank out hours later). The Sichuan peppers actually numb your tongue after they burn it, which is pretty weird, and have an almost licorice aftertaste.
Standard fare, can't go wrong with Hunan chicken, Singapore mei fun and sesame chicken.
But the last few times I ate this shit it made me sick.. really not physicaly but... I don't even crave it anymore
Damn, I'm hungry now.
If Im getting main dishes, crispy roasted chicken, moo shu pork, kung pao chicken, or chicken w/ garlic sauce.
Serious Eats General Tso. - ( New Window )
In Berkeley, with a great (mostly Cantonese) Chinese restaurant <5 mins drive from home, it would like have been Mu Shoo Pork, Beef with Leeks in Black Bean sauce, fillets of "Halibut" with Chinese greens (baby bok choi) or steamed Steelhead fillets with black bean sauce and chicken and garlic or green onions/ ginger stir fry with whatever seasonal vegetable was featured - often asparagus or snow peas. They also made a very good hot and sour soup.
If we came early (around 5-5:30 PM) when the staff was eating, we might ask for something we noticed off the menu on the staff dinner table...
When I lived in Manhattan, on the upper west side near different Human or Szechuan style Chinese restaurants, it would have been an entirely different set of choices aside from the Mu Shoo Pork.
Eggplant. Spicy shrimp. Lamb. Duck. It's all good.
Peter Chang's is fantastic if he happens to be cooking at the location. Otherwise, its pretty mediocre.
You live in Matawan?
This. Or chicken & broccoli
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Too many cleanliness reports are centered around these establishments and I have sworn not eat such.
Have you heard of people actually getting sick from chinese food though? Woks are like a million degrees hot.
A Chinese Buffet up here got shut down once. Health inspector made them throw big boxes of stinky, out of code chicken. Watched them throw it in the dumpster.
He told me this at a diner counter right down the street immediately afterwards. And he told me he was going RIGHT BACK to check that dumpster.
That Buffet was shut down for good the next day. They pulled the rotten meat OUT of the dumpster.
I don't care WHAT kind of restaurant it is - you gotta WATCH for cleanliness.
Singapore mei fun
Pork spareribs
Pan fried buckwheat lo mein
Shrimp and ginger fried rice
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Too many cleanliness reports are centered around these establishments and I have sworn not eat such.
Have you heard of people actually getting sick from chinese food though? Woks are like a million degrees hot.
A Chinese Buffet up here got shut down once. Health inspector made them throw big boxes of stinky, out of code chicken...
I don't care WHAT kind of restaurant it is - you gotta WATCH for cleanliness.
That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
While in China I eat pizza and Thai lol
Chinese takeout is tough these days...I love a good chinese meal, but most places nowadays are awful...hard to find a good one
But for chinese, it's a large vegetable lo mein, large chicken fingers, large crab rangoon, 2 spring rolls for wife, and one egg roll for me....
Surprised, no one ordered Sum yung guy.....
But for chinese, it's a large vegetable lo mein, large chicken fingers, large crab rangoon, 2 spring rolls for wife, and one egg roll for me....
Surprised, no one ordered Sum yung guy.....
Or, nobody is willing to admit to it:) NTTAWWT
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Too many cleanliness reports are centered around these establishments and I have sworn not eat such.
Have you heard of people actually getting sick from chinese food though? Woks are like a million degrees hot.
I got food poisoning from a Chinese restaurant. I was out of commission for a week. Even thinking about Chinese food makes me nauseated.
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In comment 12811717 Diver_Down said:
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Too many cleanliness reports are centered around these establishments and I have sworn not eat such.
Have you heard of people actually getting sick from chinese food though? Woks are like a million degrees hot.
I got food poisoning from a Chinese restaurant. I was out of commission for a week. Even thinking about Chinese food makes me nauseated.
It's not that I think eating Chinese food will make me sick again, it's just that the reminder turns my stomach. I know it's irrational, and I'm sure at some point I will eat it again since I used to be a big fan. It happened about a year ago.