thread of pictures of real chinese food

Will my mouth be offended if I put Panda Express in it?

I live in China. Here's what I ate in a (pretty normal) week.

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that panino looks a little out of place

That's what I ate that day. You could also point out the raisin bran.

is that a pop tart? v curious about chinese pop tart flavors

Very nice, is that your host family or your family's cooking

It would take me longer to get used to changing what I normally eat for breakfast than for any other meal. I'm very attached to my breakfast habits. The raisin bran makes sense in that context.

Many of those pics (the ones of actual Chinese food) make me nostalgic and also angry that I can't get the awesome nuclear-fired wok magic going on greens I cook at home.

Very nice, is that your host family or your family's cooking

My family, I suppose, though I married into it - some food is from the work canteen or restaurants.

The pop tart is a boring normal one from an import shop, bought because I wanted to try them again. Still like oversweetened hot cardboard.

It would take me longer to get used to changing what I normally eat for breakfast than for any other meal. I'm very attached to my breakfast habits. The raisin bran makes sense in that context.

First few years in China I tried to get used to Chinese breakfasts, but just don't like mantou and youtiao is way too oily. Funny as my wife's family are from Hubei, where they actually have great breakfast, dry spicy noodles and tofu skin, for some reason they don't make that at home though.

Savoury breakfast are better imo

Never understood the Western predilection for starting out with a bowl of sugar

Noodle or dumpling soup is my dream breakfast. I could make it happen all the time in China, but not so much in the U.S. Pho joints that open early are a good option, tho.

Yeah, not into oversweet breakfasts either, but mantou and hard-boiled eggs is just a load of nothing.

Lots of Chinese eat "Western breakfast" now - that's a slice of nasty sweetened bread with no topping and a carton of UHT milk, which seems like the worst of both worlds.

In Singapore and Thailand earlier this year the places we stayed all had savory breakfast other than fruit - noodles, bao, rice porridge, the nasi lemak bar at the cheap hotel, curries, etc. But the default coffee and tea was all insanely sweet for my sludgy french press / espresso tastes, especially first thing in the morning.

It's true that white people make everything bad xp

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does that arrive at your table via pneumatic tube

No idea where to post this so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyyIP-9sJDs

I don't know why I am on this thread atm but it makes me miss chinese food a whole lot.

Good news: found a Taiwanese joint outside DC and the greens are like "omg *this is just the right taste*" and they serve old-school Taiwan Beer and are really nice.

Bad news: by "outside DC" I mean like exurbs an hour away or at least seems like it. Requires car. But happy/nostalgic about Taiwan right now.

what place is that?

In Ashburn, will look up name 'cause I don't remember perhaps because I am just back from wine tasting *hiccup*

Yen's Cafe

cool, thanks

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taiwanese_pig_blood_cake.jpg

i've been cooking a lot of fuchsia dunlop recipes lately - dunno if she passes the litmus test of authenticity, but she does make it a lot easier to know what i'm looking for when i go to the chinese supermarket. lol white people feeling good about their awkward interactions or whatever but i do get a real buzz from my adventures buying diff ingredients - the owner is really helpful and will always give me a recipe idea or a suggestion as i'm buying the thing, and is patient when i show him a list. i guess it's such a diff culture of food and cooking that learning to do it feels wildly different from just teaching myself euro techniques or ingredients - like nobody i know is cooking this stuff, and so far i've kind of been assembling the ingredients so all i need is veg or meat/fish - like when you first learn to cook and you're buying paprika or cumin or whatever.

I kind of love that too, especially when I get advice or tips from people - like the Indonesian woman who told me that nobody liked the brand of kecap manis I was holding and I would be foolish not to buy the identical seeming brand next to it. Which seemed arbitrary but I guess if I was in Jakarta I'd have opinions about buying Heinz ketchup over Hunts.

Other times I though I sort have to bite my tongue, like when one local store owner would give me enthusiastic Thai food 101 lectures when I actually have a pretty good idea that fish sauce is, you know, made of fish. Or the checkout person in a big market in Minneapolis who kept staring at me and sort of angrily saying "you cook Thai food?" while quizzing me to see if I knew what I was buying.

That's really cool LG

Insofar as there is an 'authenticity test' I think Fuchsia passes it / is on the list

yeah i'm having a lot of fun. i have dabbled a bit in the past but am now more determined - my cooking had got v boring at home.

i got this recently - the chef it's about seems an interesting character - i work quite near the place so will prob check it out sometime: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunan-Lifetime-Secrets-Chinese-Kitchen/dp/1848094345

also this article is quite interesting on the topic of menus for westerners and secret authentic menus etc.

http://lky.ph/post/49261745544/fuchsia-dunlop-londons-chinatown

i love this thread but it makes me sad that i will never eat food like this. not without traveling a lot. which i don't do.

scott if you ever come to NYC or Philly hmu and I'll take you places

anyone seen that general tso's documentary?

come to DC I am not dayo but I too can make real chinese food happen

but dayo plus me combo probably best bet just saying

would totally take you guys up on chinese food tours! i never really ate too much good chinese food in philly when i lived there. that was a while ago though. whenever i went to chinatown i would go to Vietnam! mmmm, i loved that place....

this is supposed to be the best place near me? which might not be saying much. they have a regular menu and a GOURMET menu. i wanna go though cuz i want to try their dragon skins and greens. looks tasty anyway. i'm not picky or anything (will eat anything basically) i just like to try new things in my old age and most places around here are so ho hum. or the best thing on their menu is the sushi. which is kinda sad.

http://www.greatwall-florence.com/photos/photos.htm

Scott if you go back to Philly you should check out Handy Nasty, they're pretty user friendly

That looks like a pretty standard Canto-style place, which is fine, but you need to be invigorated by some other styles of Chinese cuisine!! xp

http://luckypeach.com/the-guide-to-chinese-DUMPLINGS!/

Lol uh try this maybe?

Lol smh

Hey the link still works

love this thread and love the 911 truther photos scattered here and there

What are you talking about?

wake up sheeple: xiao long bao has an inside soup!

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/20f3d64e-27f5-11e4-ae44-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3Rhp3lk98

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/28/california-foodways-the-chinese-mexican-cuisine-youll-find-only-along-the-border

I wanna go :>

http://i.imgur.com/MpwOYAo.jpg

http://ladyandpups.com/2014/11/24/how-to-make-sichuan-ma-la-hot-pot-on-thanksgiving/

http://luckypeach.com/the-price-of-poetry/

Who wants to go with me

I'm in!

Yes <3

I'm in if I can get a Groupon.