Can anyone Tell Me Some of these Chinese Dishes?

Question

These dishes come from a Chinese restraunt I frequent but I dont no what these dishes are can anyone help me?

Seven Star Around The Moon
Lake Tung Ting Shrimp
Chicken Two Style
Chow Sam Sim
Four Seasons
Ta Ching Chicken
Triple Crown
Subgum Wonton (especially interested about this)
Happy Family
Dragon and Phoenix


If you could explain any or all of them it would be great.

Answer 1

The menu was standard Chinese fare with a sushi menu on the side.

We kept trying to find a way to enjoy the wonton soup. It's thick wonton was bland pork in a leather jacket as thick as Danny Zuko's. It lacked both the pleasant, slippery mouthfeel I expect from wontons in my soup and the broth was as thin and flavorless as Ann Coulter's last good idea.

Egg rolls were large and packed with pork bits and cabbage but all parts tasted vaguely salty and of pepper and MSG. Clearly, the meat had not been cooked in any spice, broth or marinade.

We ordered a dish called Seven Stars Around The Moon. Fish, chicken and shrimp for two. I kept thinking how positive we like to be about food and dining, but we looked at the dish and, like waching a John Hughes movie's opening sequence, had a pretty good idea where this was going.

Chicken was fried tempura style and served with a traffic-cone orange bowl of sauce. The chicken was bland and dry.

Shrimp was overcooked with little differentiation in texture between its heavy batter and the shrimp itself. Each piece tasted more of grease than batter or seafood. I wanted to set the shrimp free to enjoy them on their own, but no.

Fish was decent with a light clear sauce. By the time we made it to the fish, we decided to cut our losses, pay the check, and go.

I thought of running down to Ikea for a lingonberry soda or driving across to the Taco Bell to squeeze sauce packets in my mouth. I wanted flavor so very much.

I've had average Chinese for years in DC and enjoyed it. It sounds odd, but we're pretty open to enjoying a meal as a casual social encounter where food is more sustenance than inspiration.

Answer 2

Subgum wanton is usually shrimp, chicken, beef, roast pork & Chinese vegetables in a brown sauce served with white rice. It comes with 4 or 5 fried wanton sheets.

The problem with some of these nmes is that they're pretty much different from one restaurant to thenext. Like the Chicken Two Style, that just means you get chicken prepared in two different ways. it may be sesame chicken and red pepper chicken, it could be teryaki or Schechuan, it all depends on the restaurant. Four Seasons most likely contains chicken, shrimp, beef and roast pork plus vegetables, but it could be peppers and onions, or mushrooms and pea pods. You should call this restaurant and ask them how they prepare their dishes. it's the only way you'll know.

OR, just order anything and enjoy the surprise. :-)

Answer 3

Seven Star Around The Moon usually refers to a kind of moon cakes that are only sold once a year, right before the mid-autumn moon festival which is Oct 6 this year. I have eaten a lot of Lake Tung Ting Crab, never shrimp, simply because Lake Tung Ting is extremely famous for its hairy crab usually harvested around autumn. Chow Sam Sim is a stir fry dish with bone marrow from cow, among other ingredients.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Lake Tung Ting

Answer 6

Subgum Wonton

Answer 7

Wontan is a paste used to wrap vegetables , pork, shrimp etc....and later steamed or fried

Answer 8

Tripe: The rubbery lining of the stomach of a cattle.

Answer 9

i can tell u abt somemore dishes .....wanna know abt them

Answer 10

No one can tell what extractly "seven star around the moon" means, unless you ask the waiter there. Chinese like to refer whatever kind of things which the number in total = 8 as "7 stars around the moon", We are going to have Moon festival in next Friday, a night that family members get together to have dinner and mooncake. Mooncake bakeries refer their most expensive luxury nicest mooncakes gift packages as "Seven Star Around The Moon".(Usually the big package contains 1 big mooncake in the middle with 7 smaller ones ( all with different fillings) around the big one. The site below shows you how mooncake looks like and different packagings. (The traditional packing puts 4 cakes in 1 box)
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimages%26imgsz%3Dall%26vf%3Dphoto%26va%3Dchinese%2Bmoon%2Bcake%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3DFP-pull-web-t%26b%3D21&w=260&h=287&imgurl=japan.park.org%2FJapan%2FTokyoNet%2Faip%2FHOT%2FFOOD%2FIMG%2Fmoon.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjapan.park.org%2FJapan%2FTokyoNet%2Faip%2FHOT%2FFOOD%2Ftea.html&size=23.3kB&name=moon.jpg&p=chinese+moon+cake&type=jpeg&no=32&tt=115&oid=dc9beec372248472&ei=UTF-8

So I guess it may be an appetizer platter with 7 different kinds of appetizer+ the one in the middle. And, Four Seasons is 4 appetizers platter or any dish contains 4 kinds of ingredients in any kind of cooking method, could be steam, deep fried or stir-fried, braised, etc.The site below shows only a 4 appetizers platter- it may be the Four Seasons. (the second photo, they put a wrong discription though), 7 appetizers platter would be similar but divided into 8.
http://www.hongkongfoodguide.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?command=read&id=c2&l=e

We also refer a family who has 7 daughters + 1 son or 7 Sons + 1 daughter as "Seven Star Around The Moon".

Chow Sam Sim = Stir-fried 3 different kinds of ingredients, usually 1 kind of meat with 2 or 3 kinds of vegetables, like pork shredded with carrot strips + bean sprouts. In Cantonese, Chow = stir fry, Sam = three, Sin = fresh, new

Subgam = Mix, assorted, So.. that can imply anything, mix vegetables stir-fried or with meat or seafood, if the menu is "Subgam Hoisin Chow Mein" that would be Assorted season fried noodles. I guess Subgum Wonton is you have deep fried won ton top with sauteed assorted vegetables and shrimps or chicken or wonton soup with assorted vegetables.

The site below shows a photo of subgum wonton
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fp%3DSubgum%2Bwonton%2Bphoto%26prssweb%3DSearch%26ei%3DUTF-8&h=336&w=448&imgcurl=www.chensrestaurant.com%2Fappetizers%2Fpics%2Fsubgum_wt_small.jpg&imgurl=www.chensrestaurant.com%2Fappetizers%2Fpics%2Fsubgum_wt_small.jpg&size=29.3kB&name=subgum_wt_small.jpg&rcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chensrestaurant.com%2Fappetizers%2Fsubgum_wt.htm&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chensrestaurant.com%2Fappetizers%2Fsubgum_wt.htm&p=subgum+wonton&type=jpeg&no=1&tt=3&fr=FP-pull-web-t

Dragon = snake or eel when we refer it on Menu or Dragon refers to Lobster because in Cantonese we call it "dragon shrimps"
Phoeniix = chicken

I can't guess what it is, never heard of it here in China / Asia may be it is a dish appears only in America

If you give me this title, I would guess it is "braised lobster with chicken stock on noodles". Here below is a photo of lobster noodle.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dlobster%2B%2526%2Bnoodle%2Bphotos%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3DFP-pull-web-t%26x%3Dwrt&w=2048&h=1536&imgurl=www.le-viet.com%2Flobsternoodle.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.le-viet.com%2Flobsternoodle.html&size=690.6kB&name=lobsternoodle.jpg&p=lobster+%26+noodle+photos&type=jpeg&no=3&tt=40&oid=6eb6ec7afe1a2e08&ei=UTF-8


Chicken Two Style = they cook chicken meat in two ways and put on the plate to serve you, i.e., steam half of the chicken and dip. with ginger sauce and deep fried another half and dip with salt and spice. There are Beef Two Style or Prawns Two Style... etc.

The site below shows a photo of Prawns two style
http://www.hongkongfoodguide.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?command=read&id=t12&l=e

Happy Family = a colourful dish, sautee assorted vegetables (carrot, baby corn, green onions) with + meat (chicken, meatballs) or seafood (sea cucumber, squid) + boiled quail eggs (like you have grandparents, parents & children in the house, in Chinese traditional mind, you have all family members stay together is fortunate and happy) The site below shows the photo and recipe.
http://chicken.allrecipes.com/az/81129.asp

I do not have a clue of what kind of cooking methods they refer for "Lake Tung Ting Shrimp", "Ta Ching Chicken" or "Triple Crown".

P.S. to longliveabcdefg,

Thanks for telling me Lake Tung Ting = 洞庭湖, may be Ta Ching Chicken = 大千雞?... but for the lake which famous known for suppling hairly crab (大閘蟹) should be Lake Yeung Ching 陽澄湖, not Lake Tung Ting.