is cooking your own chinese food as nice as buying it from the shop?

Question

If you get all the ingredients, the sauces etc.. can it taste just as nice and better than you get from the chinese shop?

Answer 1

no, you cant beat the chinese at their own game.

Answer 2

My husband can make many recipes taste just like a restaurant. He cooked a four course Chinese meal to impress my parents. But it means spending a lot of time in the kitchen and a lot on ingredients.

Answer 3

ABSOLUTELY! Yes. I would say better most of the time.

The restaurants are interested in making a profit, your nutrition is a lesser concern. But at home, you CAN make healthy tasty ethnic chinese food. The authentic stuff is not what you get in 95% of the restaurants outside of china. Their taste preference is not the same.

And contrary to popular believe, majority of home cooked chinese food are not laddened with MSG. My fried rice does not need MSG and never use soya sauce at all.

Answer 4

No, I have tried many times. Doesn't even come close to the real thing. Then you also get stuck buying 20.00 dollars in ingredients that you will never use again. When you get the craving for MSG or Chinese food your best bet is to go out and eat.

Answer 5

well the answer is simple NO,, it might look the same might even smell the same, but the all important taste wont be there, sadly and the cost of buying the ingredient's and the the cost of cooking it, much better to buy the food from the local takeaway,, A winner every time.

Answer 6

If you're offering to take me out for a Chinese meal, then it's much better than cooking my own. If you aren't, I'd say that I can control the ingredients and cook a blindingly good, tasty meal for one.

Answer 7

yeah of course it does coz it means you can add things in that you like and keep the things you don't like out.
It's a matter of trial & error though but i'm sure if you try a few times you will make something you love.
I don't like most of the things you can get from the chinese you think it will be lovely but then you get it and it's cold & greasy -or is that just my local chinese take away

Answer 8

definately!!!
got to be confident with yuor cooking - always confident.

the stuff you buy in the shop is lovely, but also packed with MSG, you're guaranteed a healthy meal if you see what's going in it.

also you can be proper adventurous.

lots of fun, and tasty.
and sometimes it's funny, also, when things go wrong, and the whole dinner party are waiting for the only toilet in your house, all q-ing down the stairs.

oh well, you win some, you lose some.

Answer 9

Enough already! Your obsession is getting way out of control!! But just for the record it never tastes as nice when you cook it at home.!!!

Answer 10

depends how good a cook you are, remember even with chinese takeaways some shops make nicer meals than others just because the chef if better....

Answer 11

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