Suggest Some Tastier Chinese Food Please.?

Question

Everytime I go out for Chinese, I order a combo meal with Pork Fried Rice, Chow Mein, Fried Shrimp, either BBQ pork or Sweet and Sour Chicken. The meals always come with Egg Flower Soup. I love BBQ Pork and the Egg Flower Soup, but I no longer like the other items I mentioned above. I really don't like Egg Rolls either. I order these combo meals because they sound good in my head, but I'm always let down when it arrives. What are your favorite chinese dishes? What makes your favorite dish special?

Answer 1

Being of Chinese decent and somewhat of a chef, if you like barbecued pork called Char Siu by chinese I would suggest these dishes
Pork Lo Mien (One of my personal favorites this is a tossed fried noodle with some veggies and pork)
Pork with Snow peas right up there on my list.
since you like sweet and sour there is a whole family of dishes that have a sweet and sour component or hot and sour I would suggest you might try these ones which I am sure you'll like
Orange Beef or chicken
General Tso's chicken also called generals chicken
lemon Chicken
hot and sour soup
Some of my personal of Chinese restaurant fair that fall outside of these
Lobster Cantonese or lobster w/ black bean sauce (my most favorite dishes)
Beef w/ Oyster sauce you'll love it just trust me

Some appetizers alternatives
steamed Dumpling
fried dumnpling (also called pot stickers)
Spring roll (a much lighter version of an eggroll but they use a different wrap that i think is superior)

If you live near a city with a major china town you absolutely must go there and try the dim sum at a Chinese tea house of go to a Chinese bakery and try a steamed or baked pork bun you will absolutely crave them

Answer 2

Fried bean curd is surprisingly good. Potstickers are a good replacement for egg rolls. Instead of Chow Mein, try Chow Fun - thicker noodles. If you like spicy, my favorite is kung pao anything, and General's Chicken is good too.

All of your regular dishes sound like "safe" dishes that everyone knows about and has tried, but don't have a lot of flavor. Why don't you pick out something new from the menu and see how it is?

Answer 3

Beef with Broccoli, General Tso's Chicken, Kung Pao chicken. Won ton soup. Potstickers.

I like to order the Mongolian Beef as a rough way to judge if a Chinese restaurant is good.

Answer 4

I'd like to add to what was said that Hong sue har or hong sue shrimp is more often just called Hong Kong shrimp.
And mandarin beef is not spicy or at least it should not be.

If you want what the Chinese eat usually when they go in there, look for a meal sized soup. You'll be glad you did!

Answer 5

* Exported from MasterCook

Stewed Dog (wedding style)

Recipe By : Joe Sweeney
Serving Size : 30 Preparation Time :3:00
Categories : Ethnic Lamb
Chinese

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
3 kg dog meat -- * see note
1 1/2 cups vinegar
60 peppercorns -- crushed
6 tablespoons salt
12 cloves garlic -- crushed
1/2 cup cooking oil
6 cups onion -- sliced
3 cups tomato sauce
10 cups boiling water
6 cups red pepper -- cut into strips
6 pieces bay leaf
1 teaspoon tabasco sauce
1 1/2 cups liver spread -- ** see note
1 whole fresh pineapple -- cut 1/2 inch thick

1. First, kill a medium sized dog, then burn off the fur over a hot fire.
2. Carefully remove the skin while still warm and set aside for later (may be
used in other recpies)
3. Cut meat into 1" cubes. Marinade meat in mixture of vinegar,
peppercorn, salt and garlic for 2 hours.
4. Fry meat in oil using a large wok over an open fire, then add onions and
chopped pineapple and suate until tender.
5. Pour in tomato sauce and boiling water, add green peper, bay leaf and
tobasco.
6. Cover and simmer over warm coals until meat is tender. Blend in liver spread
and cook for additional 5-7 minutes.

* you can substiture lamb for dog. The taste is similar, but not as pungent.
** smooth liver pate will do as well.


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Suggested Wine: San Miguel Beer
Serving Ideas : Rice, naturally.

NOTES : During my wedding reception, my brother- in-law suggested we add to the
feast by having dog stew. Wanting to be part of the family, and having been
subjected to all sorts of socials tests already, I agreed. The result was...
well.. a lot better than I expected. In fact, it was great!

It was only later I found out that dog should *not* be served at weddings, as
it may make the bride and groom flight like dogs during the honeymoon. But what
the heck. It didn't seem to have that effect... at least not until a few year
later. :-)

For the faint of heart, you can always substitute lamb in place of next door's
rover, but the meat will not be as sweet or as rich in flavor.

Nutr. Assoc. : 3831 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Answer 6

I always get cashew chicken, pork lo mein, shrimp fried rice, and crab rangoon. Sometimes I get the hot and sour soup too. (Hey, it feeds me for several days!)

Answer 7

Sesame Chicken. Hong Sue Shrimp (or chicken, pork or beef).
If you like spicy General Tsao's Chicken or Mandarin Beef.

Mmmmmm...now I want some!
See if your 'usual' place will allow you to try something before you order it.