Chinese Cuicine?? What do you like most? Authentic Chinese food, I mean!?

Question

What is the best you have ever had? In which city? Any recommendations?

I'm from Hong Kong, I love seafood and I enjoy Cantonese seafood dinners (you cannot eat that much for lunch!!!) here in my hometown especially with at least 8 to 12 of us!

Answer 1

I have tasted pretty much all types of Chinese food, it is hard to say which one I like most. In general, I like Cantonese food, Shanghai cuisine, and Taiwan snacks (台湾小吃) in night markets. I am not crazy about Sichuan and Chongqing food, I like hot food, but not the spices (麻) in it, that is why I like Hunan cuisine better than Sichuan.

There are few good dishes in Northeast Chinese cuisine, such as fish head, chicken and mushrooms, and pork and rice noodles. I am not crazy about Peking ducks, the restaurants in Taiwan and Hong Kong make much better Peking ducks than Quan Ju De and other restaurants in Beijing.

I like hot pots, but not the hot and spicy one (麻辣火锅). The seafood hot pots in HK is good.

Talking about seafood dinners, I miss Sai Gong and Li Yu Men.

Answer 2

It's all in the head, but very true. I walked into a Mexican restaurant once and seen a bunch of white folks (whiter than my very white self!) doing the serving. I told my husband that I was disappointed because they wouldn't be the real thing. Would you know they were indeed Hispanics from Mexico!?! They couldn't even speak English! They were just white. Oh, yeah, and the food was SUPER! I hear that our Chinese food is not authentic in America, also, but most of us haven't been there to try it. They say we probably wouldn't eat the real stuff... and they are probably right! Mexico, on the other hand, is closer, many of us have been there, and the food is closer so it comes in still authentic. Taco Bell is good, authentic or not, but it is a food in it's own class. If you are from a non-hispanic area, it is more Mexican than McDonald's, but say, in Texas, it is probably considered to be very Americanized.

Answer 3

I lived in Changchun for a year and I LOVED Chinese food. I've been home for a couple years now, but still crave some food there that I can't find in the States. Hot Pot (huo guo) is fantastic, and my personal opinion is that Chuan Wang Fu is the best restaurant to get hot pot. There's also the staples like egg fried rice, jiaozi (dumplings), hun dun (wonton soup), cashew chicken. For dessert, I like ba si ping guo (carmelized apples) and mantou (bread) in sweetened condensed milk. There's so many dishes I love I can't even begin to list them all. But China definetly has some of the best cuisine on earth.

Answer 4

Living in America and having never (yet) been to China, this is a difficult question to answer. I once made a round trip of 270 miles with a friend to pick up his wife and son who were arriving from China. Neither knew enough English to say hello to me! A week later his wife had me over for a Chinese meal to tell me thanks. It was Chinese (ummmm) but, of course, made with American ingredients. (2 years later, by the way, the son sounded like an American teenager, you know, like, it's like you know! :>)).

Another time I had a student who was from China and in a rather strange circumstance, and I made garlic bread pizza and other things once for her and her 2 house mates. They repaid me with a Chinese meal. Again, American ingredients.

Both were scrumptious and I get to go to Chinatown occasionally and eat in the more 'authentic' places and can say that I have yet to eat anything called 'Chinese' that I didn't like. How authentically I've eaten? Alas, I cannot say.

I did one time try '100 flavors scallops' and could not BELIEVE how good it was. For now, I'll go with that one.

Answer 5

For me, a plate of BBQ pork fried rice would be my favorite and the dish has been considered by many as a very representative of Chinese food.

My Chinese friend mentioned some more exotic Chinese food that are deemed as expensive delicacies.

1. SHARK FIN SOUP
2. ROASTED BEAR PAWS
3. MONKEY BRAIN JELLY
4. SNAKE SOUP
5. PUPPY STEW

Answer 6

1) Peking Duck
2) Ma Poh Tao Fu
3) Sweet and Sour Szechuan Soup
4) Wui Wo Yoke
5) Last but not least all cantonese cuisine especially dim sum

I grow up eating poh poh's cantonese home cook food!

Answer 7

I probably had every type of cuisine in China, from North to South and East to West. My favourite is unquestionably roasted sparrows on a stick, I had those in Shanghai.

But overall, my most memorable experience is with a Uygur friend with whom I traveled to Turpan to visit his family. We met his family who was staying in their camp just outside Turpan. The meal was simple and completely unknown to me but it felt so familiar (I'm originally from "some" desert country in Africa culturally connected to Uygur, that bigots like to hate...), almost like my grand-mother's cooking: we had längmän, with polo and samsa, and black tea with honey-dipped sweets that tasted almost like zlebia from my country...Funny that some sweets from Eastern Europe Muslims and the Middle East are also very similar to ours...

Food by itself is not fullfilling. Food has to be shared. Food is the mortar that binds people together, that brings conviviality and happiness among people of different background. So many times while camping in the Arctic, I shared some canned meat (Klik and Kam) and hard-tack crackers and a cup of hot tea with some Inuit friends on the tundra, in the springtime when the sun is shining 24 hours over the white snow.... I would trade the best food from the best restaurant in Paris for another bite at those memories...

Answer 8

I like Wonton noodle soup, beef skew, beef jerky (of course Chinese style), dim sum, seafood like salted shrimp, black bean clams, leek and pork dumplings, oh and of course Dong Gong salted chicken. all these are from my hometown Guangzhou

Answer 9

It is some of the world's best cusine... but I do have a problem with eating things that either are still crawling or have their blinking eyes staring at me.

Answer 10

Any food from CHina is great!! I love it!