Need some Chinese Food Suggestions since I always eat-"fried rice and egg rolls"

[TVFactFan]

What other type of chinese food would you sugest that you feel is very tasty?

I want to step outside the Chinese Food Box and get something NEW for a change and not the same ole chicken fried rice and egg or shrimp rolls.

[JamesG]

That depends, do you want to stay in the Chinese-American menu or venture into authentic cuisine?

I'm asking because the menus are totally different and I don't know what is available where you are.

[TVFactFan]

That depends, do you want to stay in the Chinese-American menu or venture into authentic cuisine?

I'm asking because the menus are totally different and I don't know what is available where you are.


Well just tell me something you ate and enjoyed and I will see if it's on the menu that's in front of me.

[JamesG]

Well just tell me something you ate and enjoyed and I will see if it's on the menu that's in front of me.

Ok...

Chinese American - Most of the popular soups are Wonton and Egg Drop. Try something different like maybe Hot and Sour Soup or Noodle Soup.

I like General Tso's and Sweet and Sour chicken
Chicken lo-mein and Chicken chow-mein
Fried dumplings
Boneless ribs
Fried duck
Shrimp Toast



Traditional - Chinese wonton soup is good as well as shark fin soup. Shark fin soup is VERY expensive and is considered a luxury.

Frog legs - If they are available where you are these are great.

Congee - rice porridge

Mapo doufu - tofu, meat, and sauce

Fuqi feipian - sliced beef

Shuizhu - water boiled meat in vegetable oil

[TVFactFan]

Ok...

Chinese American - Most of the popular soups are Wonton and Egg Drop. Try something different like maybe Hot and Sour Soup or Noodle Soup.

I like General Tso's and Sweet and Sour chicken
Chicken lo-mein and Chicken chow-mein
Fried dumplings
Boneless ribs
Fried duck
Shrimp Toast



Traditional - Chinese wonton soup is good as well as shark fin soup. Shark fin soup is VERY expensive and is considered a luxury.

Frog legs - If they are available where you are these are great.

Congee - rice porridge

Mapo doufu - tofu, meat, and sauce

Fuqi feipian - sliced beef

Shuizhu - water boiled meat in vegetable oil


since you were taking too long to reply i had to order my usual but I will keep the list in mind for the future. I was tempted to try fried dumplings but wasn;t completely sure

[JamesG]

since you were taking too long to reply i had to order my usual but I will keep the list in mind for the future. I was tempted to try fried dumplings but wasn;t completely sure

What does your "usual" consist of? If I knew it was "urgent" I'd have made sure to reply sooner.

[TVFactFan]

What does your "usual" consist of?


either "shrimp fried rice and shrimp rolls" or "chicken fried rice and egg rolls"

[Brad Russ]

Orange Chicken is my favorite. I also like crab puffs.

[Yooch]

Well, I'm with you regarding egg rolls and fried rice, but other Chinese food choices which I like are:

Broccoli Beef--(Specify to what degree of hotness you want it though) If you don't like it to spicy, tell the waiter, etc.

Mongolian Beef

Sweet and Sour Pork

Beef Chow Fun--Sort of a beef, noodle and veggie combo

Pot stickers--Are really good, too.

[Brian Damage]

Boneless spare ribs

Fried Dumplings

General Tso's Chicken

Sweet and Sour Pork

[catlover79]

Chow mein

[Doodyville10019]

I personally love Chow Mein. I also love Chow Fun, which is a noodle dish served with meat (usually chicken, beef or shrimp) and very few vegetables.

[Courtnee]

General Tsos chicken is the best. As is Sesame chicken.
AND PEANUT CHICKEN.

[catlover79]

I personally love Chow Mein. I also love Chow Fun, which is a noodle dish served with meat (usually chicken, beef or shrimp) and very few vegetables.
My mom makes the BEST chow mein. :drool: I'd love some right now, to be honest!! :D

[MickeyMac]

Crab meat ragoon

[OH Nuts!]

spare ribs (yum yum yum)

sesame chicken with broccoli

Moo Shoo Shrimp

orange chicken

crab puffs (or shrimp puffs)

[Marvo301]

I like Breaded Almond Chicken

[*Pleasant Tomorrow*]

I loooove lo mein noodles. Beef and broccoli combos are good, too. Sesame chicken, burbon (sp?) chicken, and general tso's chicken also all great.

[70s show watcher]

hot and sour soup

[robyrob]

chow mein/lo mein, breaded almond chicken, dry garlic spare ribs

[Zoneboy]

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[Purffin]

I like egg drop soup, anything lo mein , and just beef and veggies or shrimp and veggies:)

Love the noodle dishes

[Pus$y Galore]

I like Breaded Almond Chicken

Is that like Chicken Soo Gai? It's a lightly battered breast of chicken and you can get it with either lemon or sweet and sour sauce?

I love it! With s&s sauce - much less breading than what's on chicken balls and lots of white meat.

I also love Yueng Chow Fried Rice (basically fried rice with EVERYTHING in it - chunks of chicken, shrimp and pork).

And I love Chinese Mixed Veggies (has to have snowpeas, water chestnuts and almonds) in brown sauce.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM - good eatin'!!

[MonarC]

Crab meat ragoon

I love those. :liplick: I also love almost any kind of chinese/japanese style food. Some of my faves are wonton soup, sweet and sour chicken/pork. shrimp & asparigas, beef & mushroom. And I love sushi like the California Rolls and the Spicy Rolls. MMMMMMMM im gettin hungry. :D

[catlover79]

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[waichingliu81]

a lot of the dishes that you guys have specified are chinese american, but also are the usual types of foods you would go for, such as egg fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, egg/spring rolls. you might want to go for seafood chow mein- which is prawns/shrimps, crabmeat, mussells. also, i'd reccomend seabass with spring onions and/or black bean sauce. i sometimes order roast duck with boiled rice and it comes with sauce, or soya chicken- which is mainly 'corn fed' chicken with rice and the sauce is a combo of oyster, soy and sesame oil. it is nice actually.

[Pus$y Galore]

^ I have had "authentic" Chinese, and I'm afraid my taste buds just aren't used to the stuff. I can't even handle the thought of shaved jellyfish. lol

I do love the black bean sauces. :)

[waichingliu81]

i've tried octopus and squid on numerous occasions- it tastes 'rubbery' and chewy almost but i like it. i hate eating liver and kidneys though. bleugh! and no, i will never try dog meat. that is just nasty.

puke:

[JamesG]

no, i will never try dog meat. that is just nasty.

puke:

It's interesting you bring up dog meat. Without a doubt different cultural attitudes and upbringings play a part in how people view dog consumption.

It is true that Asian countries eat dog, but then again there are other animals to other cultures that people will never eat. Example will be how some religions view cows to be sacred and will never eat beef. I am sure they feel the same way about westerners eating beef like how we view others for eating dog.

I only know of one person who has eaten dog. He was stationed in Vietnam and is an old family friend of ours. He said it was "good".

[catlover79]

i've tried octopus and squid on numerous occasions- it tastes 'rubbery' and chewy almost but i like it. i hate eating liver and kidneys though. bleugh! and no, i will never try dog meat. that is just nasty.

puke:
Ditto!! puke:

[Cactus Jack]

Ditto!! puke:
Quit stealin my catchphrase!:mad: :lol:

[Pus$y Galore]

i've tried octopus and squid on numerous occasions- it tastes 'rubbery' and chewy almost but i like it. i hate eating liver and kidneys though. bleugh! and no, i will never try dog meat. that is just nasty.

puke:


Back in the early 60s when my parents lived in Northern Ontario, they knew a young guy, Ping who had recently immigrated from Hong Kong and was setting up a restaurant there. He also married a former Miss Hong Kong (you should have seen this gal!!!) and my parents were invited to the wedding. My dad was always adventurous with food and since it was a buffet he tried the octopus. I've seen my dad eat some strange stuff and declare it delicious, but the knawing he was doing was a riot. He said it was basically like chewing on a Uniroyal snow tire. :lol: He said the flavour was good, but it was tiring trying to eat. Reminds me of watching Inuit eat whale blubber! lol

I don't go near organs of ANY kind - sorry - kidneys.....would you eat your car's air or oil filter? So why eat them? ;)

[Janice]

My husband tried Mandarin beef the other night, and he loved it. Straw mushrooms, water chestnuts, red peppers in a spicy sauce. I tasted it, and I loved it too.

[LuLu Rogers]

Cream Cheese Wontons are my FAVORITE! I really haven't eaten much Chinese food, I need to go and try some and see what I like. I do know that I like Sweet and Sour Chicken and Sesame Chicken though. ;)

[Lee]

My husband tried Mandarin beef the other night, and he loved it. Straw mushrooms, water chestnuts, red peppers in a spicy sauce. I tasted it, and I loved it too.

I thought you said you didn't like spicy food

[MonarC]

I forgot to mention Kung-Pow Chicken. It's hot and spicy but it soooo good! :D

[Janice]

I thought you said you didn't like spicy food
I don't like food if it's too spicy, and I wouldn't order a spicy dish myself. Still, I made chili last week, and I made it kind of hot because my husband likes it that way. I don't make it take-your-breath-away hot though. Food that hot make no sense to me. Can't even taste the food, just get a burning mouth, lol.

[waichingliu81]

It's interesting you bring up dog meat. Without a doubt different cultural attitudes and upbringings play a part in how people view dog consumption.

It is true that Asian countries eat dog, but then again there are other animals to other cultures that people will never eat. Example will be how some religions view cows to be sacred and will never eat beef. I am sure they feel the same way about westerners eating beef like how we view others for eating dog.

I only know of one person who has eaten dog. He was stationed in Vietnam and is an old family friend of ours. He said it was "good".

good that you have pointed this out because i think that most native chinese would have no problem consuming dog meat, rat and all those other types of animals us westerners would never touch. i am a british born chinese myself and though i do like squid and octopus, i tend to draw the line when it comes to eating things such as snake, rat etc. i read somewhere that in china something like a animal penis is cooked and served in restaurants and that they eat it as a delicacy. plus, i also read that in chinese tradition eating say a animal penis is good for improving one's libido or something like that!

about a few weeks ago, i made some sesame prawn toast for the first time.
ingredients that you need are: a loaf of white bread, sesame seeds, raw king prawns already peeled and washed, pork fat, cooking oil.

mash together the king prawns and so it looks like a paste, adding the pork fat as you go along. once you have done that, you take a slice of bread and you spread the prawn paste on one of the sides of the bread, coating it well. then you press it firmly on some sesame seeds to coat the mixture. you continue this method throughout, if you want to make say a batch of the prawn toast. heat a large pan or wok of oil and when it is really hot, you place the bread into the oil, one by one. it should take round about 15 or 20 mins for it to cook. when one side is golden brown, you turn the bread over and cook the other side. when it is throughly cooked,- and you can tell because a) the prawns have turned pink and b) it is brown throughout- carefully remove the toast using tongs for example and transfer them onto kitchen paper to drain off any excess oil. leave to cool for a while and afterwards, you can divide them into little trangles, squares or rectangles. serve with dipping sauce if desired.

they can also be freezed and used whenever you want and so when you do take them out of the fridge for instance, you just fry them in oil. there's no need to defrost them.

[Darren J.]

-Chicken w/garlic sauce
-Chicken w/ broccoli

Those are my 2 favorites.