thread of pictures of real chinese food

need some hundred year master stock

And MSG.

Been hooning back a lot of 开胃金针菇 & 热干面 as the weather's gotten colder. Also, so many diff names for 拍青瓜!

Sadly my decision to stick w/ostensible vegetarianism has cut off a bunch of delicious options from me ... OTOH, coming from NZ places where there's generally an effort made for halal options (+ gluten-free etc) the DNGAF attitude of institutional meals is kinda intense; I can see why I'm one of the few 老外 at the canteen here.

I miss having a kitchen/cooking (mainly curries & bean-based things, though I can always go to 小北, I guess) - been trying to make notes of dishes to try and recreate back home but it's a bit haphazard. Need to pick up some local cookbooks for reading practise / inspiration - any recs, dayo?

really need to find some real chinese food in my neighborhood. maybe by figuring out where local chinese ppl go and order off-menu? not aware of any place that has on-menu stuff

prime exception is the place in a college town about 45 minutes away. love going there and ordering about anything, and watching people picking mixed seafood out of hot pots

oh duh! there's a place near me that does dim sum on sundays. that stuff is pretty legit, but it's obviously not larger items. good time to eat some bun and chicken feet though

putting this here for posterity http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/search/collection/newman/order/title/page/2

Need to pick up some local cookbooks for reading practise / inspiration - any recs, dayo?

― etc, Tuesday, December 8, 2015 1:30 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

i'd proably just walkt into a bookstore and go to the cooking section!

last time i was at the bookstore in beijing, they had like 3 aisles of cookbooks, and 2 sections devoted just to congee

I never thought I'd say I Miss Suburban Maryland, but I frequented at least half a dozen places for real Chinese food when I worked there.

I have tried but can't get real Chinese food to happen at home. Ingredients aren't the problem, I don't think. . . but it just doesn't taste like delicious restaurant Chinese food.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, December 7, 2015 8:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

tbh most home cooked chinese food doesn't taste like restaurant chinese food, which is more oily/flavor forward

http://i.imgur.com/cjYOwbi.png

am i being too sensitive here or is this a little messed

fucked up definitely.

wait... is he going to eat the child

read a bit further, i guess not. still very strange.

it is definitely fucked

i had real chinese food yesterday, it was amazing

like the best bean curd i have ever eaten

do they bring out special food at restaurants if you have a chinese child?

but yeah whoa wtf dude

i just assumed Fong Chong is a helluva cook

i mean just imagine this mother's disappointment if she doesn't live up to that pedigree

The lobster variations (LA edition).

http://www.culinarybackstreets.com/wp-content/uploads/CYB_final2.jpg
http://culinarybackstreets.com/wp-content/uploads/CYB_final.jpg

https://www.foodnut.com/i/Shanghai-Restaurant-Reviews/Yangs-Fry-Dumpling-Shanghai-10.jpg

http://www.timing-design.com/food/thw9.jpg

Awww man I want those DUMPLINGS!. No one in my area makes them like that, it's all just minced chicken in wonton wrappers.

Weird, I don't think I capitalized DUMPLINGS! but... I do feel strongly about them.

Okay. Is there an auto replace for that word? Weird.

It's a universal auto-replace. When you say word DUMPLINGS! the universe chimes along with you.

ilx has felt that way about DUMPLINGS! for a very long time

you folks really like dumplings huh

Even the British sense of the word are awesome.

those were from Yang's Fry DUMPLINGS! in Shanghai; they're basically soup DUMPLINGS! but w/ a slightly thicker skin maybe and also the bottoms are pan-fried and they are coated w/ sesame seeds

DUMPLINGS!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shengjian_mantou

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/chongqings-number-one-noodle-obsessive/

this is cross posted from the cookbooks thread but:

Can anyone recommend a book or coobkook that is as comprehensive of an overview of Chinese cuisines as is possible? I had my eye on "All Under Heaven" by Carolyn Phillips and "China: The Cookbook" by Kei Lum Chan and Diora Fong Chan but idk what else is out there

I've been wanting to get a Fuchsia Dunlop cookbook, I don't know if she's written one comprehensive one though.

thread of missing dayo

otm

I ordered Every Grain of Rice b/c I've been hankering for a new cookbook

Good choice imo

Great choice.

excited to eat some pork with pork sauce