http://pica.nipic.com/2008-02-29/2008229101143338_2.jpg
粉蒸肉 MEAT STEAMED WITH GROUND UP RICE MASHED ALL OVER IT. GOD. THIS IS AMAZING.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/NvJip.jpg
牛肉面
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3252/2700015194_a9b1ebe06a.jpg
蟹炒年糕
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
i want to fuck my face with all of these
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.168food.com.cn/pictures/images/20090830194117691.jpg
鸭血粉丝 duckblood fensi
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qwEhY.jpg
I posted this before but it's so good. the green things are 蒜薹, which means garlic shoots, and you absolutely cannot get this in the US because they don't sell garlic shoots in the supermarket!
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
vancouver is cool in that you can get stuff like that. "garlic bolts" is usually the translation.
http://www.ttmeishi.com/Images/CaiPu_Upload/2008-7/20080727102723273.jpg
凉拌猪肚
this is a favorite
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
ok two more k-classic dishes that everybody in china knows how to make and then I'm done for today
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/aAfwx.png
http://i.imgur.com/BVz85.jpg
鱼香肉丝
http://i.imgur.com/7zLB7.jpg
宫保鸡丁
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
you may be more familiar with the second one as 'kung pao chicken' here is a lol american version
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/5282457865_123c95eac4_z.jpg
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
lol america *smh*
if only china wasn't being run by a brutal autocracy
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://i52.tinypic.com/mhzp1y.jpg
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.eat4.com/upimg/110312/1_013014_1.jpg
蚕豆炒莴笋
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
my saliva glands hurt
if anyone would like to continue you can go here
http://www.meishij.net/chufang/diy/jiangchangcaipu/
and click the little numbers at the bottom to go to the next page, or hit the button that says 下一页
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
莴笋 is another example of a chinese vegetable that is very hard or impossible to find in the states. my parents tried very hard to grow some last year and were only able to harvest enough for half a meal. : (
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
it's available in vancouver... locally grown, too, as i understand it. there's a hunan restaurant here that has a dish of 炒 eel, bacon (super smoky eerie white hunan bacon) and wosun.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like I should move to vancouver
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
richmond is like china if all the poor people were gone
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
rip chinas poor people
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
hey, let's not end on a bummer
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
Let's go west for Baked Bun Soaked in Mutton Soup:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/3121995269_7995caf5e2.jpg
The white doughy pieces are actually torn up bits of these pancakes/buns:http://www.tourschina.com/travel-xian/images/food/yangroupaomo1.jpg
When you're served this, they come intact like that picture, and you're supposed to break them up and toss them into the stew.
― Leee, Lord of Wtfomgham (Leee), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
thanks.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
i truly hate you for this thread, dayo
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
coming out of retirement because reading about chinese bacon made me crave this
http://i.imgur.com/ycCgP.jpg
腊肉
if you think chinese food is salty you haven't tried this!!
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol horseshoe you won't after watching this
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzAwMzI0MzI0.html
but yeah dylannnnnnnnnnnnnnn is otm when he says
man, vancouver is 90% chinese but the food will never live up to the shittiest mainland china backwater, i think.
and this is why NYC can never have great chinese food. even in flushing. THE END.
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://jingtheory.com/blog/2010/11/taste-of-chengdu/
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2010/10/chengdu-dou-hua-flower-beancurd-street-food.html and http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2010/12/what-mr-zhang-taught-me.html
greatest country in the world
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
LOOK at that
― dylannn, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
think I told this story before on ILX but the spiciest, hottest food I ever had was in chengdu - some 特辣 chicken wings that had me on a vision quest, for reals. and normally I don't back down from spicy food. I think they used a ghost pepper or the chinese equivalent.
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
I remember sweating profusely, my vision getting dizzy, stumbling across a city square during a very cold winter day with a starbucks frappuchino in one hand, a bottle of water in the other, double fisting. took about 20 minutes for the spiciness to wear off. jesus.
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
that blog post about chengdu is otm though - as china's people get wealthier the food is getting shittier. I had more disappointments in my most recent trip to beijing (this past winter) than I did in all the previous times I had been back. china should look to hong kong as a warning to what happens when your city gets overrun with franchises.
otoh taiwan is still great and they are pretty rich! taiwan has the best street food in the world.
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
in fact taiwan may have the highest concentration of great chinese food in all of the world. love taiwan.
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, I get it! when you become middle class you don't have time to worry about food. you are staring at a computer screen all day. and you can actually afford a house and to create a good environment for your kid to live in. but it still makes me sad, a little bit. china makes me sad, sometimes. godspeed
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Um_rXMBXAs
good intro to xiao long bao making skills at 3:38
chef dude is a DUDE
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://bestvacationdealstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Hong-Kong-Night-Street-Snacks.jpg
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/98seg.jpg
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
if i wanted to be reminded of stupid shit i said years ago, i'd get married
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Saturday, September 3, 2011 12:00 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark
― dayo, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://metcn8.com/001-home-cooking/005-steamed-fish.jpg
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zAw58ivw-TA/TKf-YGz4tMI/AAAAAAAAEEM/6keokGRE9ao/s1600/DSCN1768.JPG
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjKmjjT6bLhCVMDyJ7U7lNWDOdBAP5R5U0OfUxp85hX6NgqpICXQ
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20080321eggquarters.jpg
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rzfOlRkWCUY/R_ETLH6grII/AAAAAAAAARU/eHyztVD7H68/s320/P1030554.JPG
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://otherpics.wcgame.ru/data/2011-07-03/singaporean-hainan-chicken-rice.jpg
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTocHldP0xJsjgRREi0ysZRKp3OLt0M5XE-DIWgREDwcUeTDyAP
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/31363_385707692516_659427516_4489206_2309958_n.jpg
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://i56.tinypic.com/15s39lg.jpg
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.travelpod.com/users/aniemi/1.1301652070.fish-tank-in-dim-sum-restaurant.jpg
no idea wtf that thing is that's looming in the top left booth
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link