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What's your go-to Take-out Chinese food ?

Dragonfly said:
I usually go Szechuan Beef.
I also love fried wontons with sweet and sour dippin sauce.
Chicken fried rice if stomach has been acting up.
General Tzo's chicken falls into a favorite category too.

How about you?
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Watch this, enjoyed the heck out of it, believe it's on netflix

 
americanwoman said:
Road trip! :mrgreen:
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If I'm going in to Philly for Chinese Food, I'll go straight to Philly's little Chinatown.

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Militant_Vegan_ said:
that documentary supports what i said. General tso's made up fried food for american gluttons
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I'm not sure anyone in this thread cares what you said. It's a fun thread for some lighten up a bit.
 
Dragonfly said:
I usually go Szechuan Beef.
I also love fried wontons with sweet and sour dippin sauce.
Chicken fried rice if stomach has been acting up.
General Tzo's chicken falls into a favorite category too.

How about you?
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I'd say we have pretty much exactly the same taste in Chinese. :)

When I was a kid Chinese food was a little different. There wasn't as much deep fried stuff. I used to love cashew chicken, with lots of bamboo shoots. Also something called rumaki (sic?), chicken liver and water chestnut wrapped in bacon and deep fried. Good stuff.
 
Militant_Vegan_ said:
that documentary supports what i said. General tso's made up fried food for american gluttons
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Most Chinese food here is Americanized. So what, it tastes fantastic.

My dad used to make a killer Chop Suey that was all vegetable. Bean sprouts, water chestnut, bok choy, etc.
 
Dragonfly said:
Lo Mein is soft noodles right? Chow mein is hard noodles?
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Yep. When I worked in Columbia, Missouri they had a place at the mall that served lo mein with a garlic chicken that was blackened on one side, add in the veggies and you got the crunch, the crisp and the soft noodles. I have yet to see anything like it at another Chinese place, best guess is it was a family recipe.
 
Dragonfly said:
I usually go Szechuan Beef.
I also love fried wontons with sweet and sour dippin sauce.
Chicken fried rice if stomach has been acting up.
General Tzo's chicken falls into a favorite category too.

How about you?
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I assume you mean American Chinese food, not real Chinese food. Today I got some cilantro chicken (in a spicy sauce) and broccoli with shiitake mushrooms and tofu (in a gingery, sweetened soy sauce). Sometimes I get honey walnut chicken or sesame chicken. I also love Szechuan green beans.

As for real Chinese food, that's a whole separate conversation.
 
Dragonfly said:
I usually go Szechuan Beef.
I also love fried wontons with sweet and sour dippin sauce.
Chicken fried rice if stomach has been acting up.
General Tzo's chicken falls into a favorite category too.

How about you?
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Don't have one. I have never been a fan of Chinese food. If I'm going Asian, I'm doing Korean, Thai or Japanese.
 
americanwoman said:
General tzo with vegetable lo mein.

At Panda express it has to be the walnut shrimp, which is amazing.
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Yeah that walnut shrimp is worth the extra $
 
FieldTheorist said:
I assume you mean American Chinese food, not real Chinese food. Today I got some cilantro chicken (in a spicy sauce) and broccoli with shiitake mushrooms and tofu (in a gingery, sweetened soy sauce). Sometimes I get honey walnut chicken or sesame chicken. I also love Szechuan green beans.

As for real Chinese food, that's a whole separate conversation.
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Yup, when I was living in China, I tried my best to find the Chinese food I grew up with in California. I didn't find a single restaurant that served it in the two years I was living there. American Chinese food is different, just like Tex-Mex isn't authentic Mexican either.
 
there's a local indian place down the street that i get take out from because the one time i ate in, everything was so spicy i guzzled down like 12 glasses of water
 
Kobie said:
Don't have one. I have never been a fan of Chinese food. If I'm going Asian, I'm doing Korean, Thai or Japanese.
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Do you mean American take-out Chinese food or real Chinese food? Don't get me wrong, my preference is still for Japanese, then Korean, and I consider Thai more in the category of Indian/Pakistani/Nepali food but with serious Chinese influence.

With that said, I do love real Chinese food, but the dishes are totally different. God, I love me some taro and pork belly.
 
PoS said:
Yup, when I was living in China, I tried my best to find the Chinese food I grew up with in California. I didn't find a single restaurant that served it in the two years I was living there. American Chinese food is different, just like Tex-Mex isn't authentic Mexican either.
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Yeah, I've always lived in cities with authentic Chinese good, but when I was a kid (I grew up in the suburbs --never again) I only had the fake American Chinese food. I wouldn't really eat that again, except where I live now there's a shop that makes both, and so sometimes I get authentic Chinese good, and other times I get the sort-of-fake, sort-of-not Szechwan food.
 
FieldTheorist said:
Do you mean American take-out Chinese food or real Chinese food? Don't get me wrong, my preference is still for Japanese, then Korean, and I consider Thai more in the category of Indian/Pakistani/Nepali food but with serious Chinese influence.

With that said, I do love real Chinese food, but the dishes are totally different. God, I love me some taro and pork belly.
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American Chinese. Terrible.
 
Kobie said:
American Chinese. Terrible.
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Most of it is, yes. The acceptable kind is the one that's half authentic Chinese, half American Chinese, but it's still a totally different animal than real Chinese food.
 
FieldTheorist said:
Yeah, I've always lived in cities with authentic Chinese good, but when I was a kid (I grew up in the suburbs --never again) I only had the fake American Chinese food. I wouldn't really eat that again, except where I live now there's a shop that makes both, and so sometimes I get authentic Chinese good, and other times I get the sort-of-fake, sort-of-not Szechwan food.
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Kobie said:
American Chinese. Terrible.
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American Chinese food was created by Chinese immigrants so while it may not be traditional Chinese food in China, I still think it has a character of its own and I like both. I still get a hankering for American Chinese food every once in awhile- you cant go wrong with sweet and sour pork, egg foo young and fried rice as comfort food. :mrgreen:

On the flip side I went to a brand new Korean restaurant near my place with my son. You get to grill the meats on your table, wrap them up in lettuce and red paste sauce and eat it like a burrito- yum!

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Authentic Korean food is excellent and vegans and vegetarians have no problem at all sharing ordering the dishes available.
 
I know this is Chinese but one of the better places I went to had Pho and fresh, non-fried spring rolls. Amazing. I have had both well made Pho and not so well made. Its a simple dish but apparently extremely easy to screw up. But when its done right, its soooo good.
 
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