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Surviving chinese cuisine

Onasander

Onasander

Member
I can eat three Chinese Dishes. I used to not be able to eat any, because as a child, in San Francisco, my mom brought me to a Chinese restaurant, and the cook gave me a egg roll, and he opened it up and it had a Chinese newspaper baked into it. Then after I refused it, he gave me a purple sea urchin raw and told me to eat up. I cried. I'm still crying.

The pics are what I can eat:

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What is closely related? I'm trying to increase my diet to four dishes instead of three. The above is Chinese ribs, mongolian beef, and Seseme Chicken/General Tso's Chicken (a Taiwanese dish from 1979, it is Chinese, or your a separatist, so just accept it).

I'm looking for something similar. Like, when I go to a Vietnamese restaurant, I eat the lemongrass steak or lemongrass chicken. Very similar.

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Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I recommend trying a restaurant that serves
dim sum (aka dian xin). Various dishes in small
portions are typically wheeled around on a cart,
& you pick what you want. The price is added
to your tab. Experiment!
Best to go with a group. It's typically on Sundays.
 
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Onasander

Onasander

Member
I got one chinese restaurant near me and they are very religiously observant, no Sundays. They might recognize St. Columbus so maybe not Monday. No dining in, take out only. Most of the menu is written on poster paper on the wall, no pictures.
 
SalixIncendium

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
If you ever get out Butler way, Fortune Star Buffet & Grill is one of the best Chinese buffets I've ever been to.
 
Onasander

Onasander

Member
I thought so too, but they eventually always convert. I used to work outside of Chinatown. They open up shop, they start that way, they don't stay that way. They discover Jesus. And they don't find that incompatible with their occult fortune cookies of doom.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Onasander said:
I thought so too, but they eventually always convert. I used to work outside of Chinatown. They open up shop, they start that way, they don't stay that way. They discover Jesus. And they don't find that incompatible with their occult fortune cookies of doom.
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Every Chinese restaurant around here
is open Sundays. It's dim sum day.
 
Audie

Audie

Veteran Member
Avoid restaurants that has pages of dishes
that you dont know what they are.
Beimg ne obvious reason.
Another tho is they can't possibly be
naking them from scratch any more
than McD makes its own chicken nuggets.

For amateurs the best bet is a Chinese
friend.
2nd best is to go to a buffet.
 
Heyo

Heyo

Veteran Member
Onasander said:
I can eat three Chinese Dishes. I used to not be able to eat any, because as a child, in San Francisco, my mom brought me to a Chinese restaurant, and the cook gave me a egg roll, and he opened it up and it had a Chinese newspaper baked into it. Then after I refused it, he gave me a purple sea urchin raw and told me to eat up. I cried. I'm still crying.

The pics are what I can eat:

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What is closely related? I'm trying to increase my diet to four dishes instead of three. The above is Chinese ribs, mongolian beef, and Seseme Chicken/General Tso's Chicken (a Taiwanese dish from 1979, it is Chinese, or your a separatist, so just accept it).

I'm looking for something similar. Like, when I go to a Vietnamese restaurant, I eat the lemongrass steak or lemongrass chicken. Very similar.

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Chinese/Asian restaurants here often have all-you-can-eat buffets for unbeatable prices. The restaurant in the nearest town offered the buffet for € 11.00 last time I went (must have been last year*). Drinks go extra. I.e. I can have an eight or nine course meal for less than half the price of a steak.
(*It's € 17.00 now, fits in with the general inflation, still unbeatably worthy.)
 
Onasander

Onasander

Member
Audie said:
Avoid restaurants that has pages of dishes
that you dont know what they are.
Beimg ne obvious reason.
Another tho is they can't possibly be
naking them from scratch any more
than McD makes its own chicken nuggets.

For amateurs the best bet is a Chinese
friend.
2nd best is to go to a buffet.
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I have no friends, much less Chinese friends.

I gotta make a decision soon. Walking over. Found two safe looking dishes:

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I'm just gonna keep looking a bit longer and show pictures of what looks best.
 
Subduction Zone

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
You can also learn how to cook your own. Now I do like to go out. One can get a general idea of how the food is supposed to taste. But once you do that you should be able to make them at home. You might need to go to a specialty store, But here is a recipe for some "comfort food" from China. Congee is basically a rice porridge. It can be made with water, but I have always made it with broth or stock. I had a bunch of Turkey stock from Thanksgiving and needed to use it up. This turned out fantastic with homemade stock:

www.foodandwine.com

Basic Chinese Congee

This simple Chinese congee recipe is a rice porridge made from chicken stock, rice, and fresh ginger. Chinese congee can be customized with a variety of toppings.
www.foodandwine.com www.foodandwine.com

You can also dress it up a bit by adding any favorites that you have.
 
Onasander

Onasander

Member
I can't really cook where I am. Microwave yes, stove.... I own a metal cup and feel to unstable job wise to invest into pots and pans. So small boils of food the size of a monkey fist best I can do.
 
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