Chinese food

Calico · Post by **Calico** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:35 pm

I want some godammit

Anyone else a fan?

Asiona & Lateus · Post by **Asiona & Lateus** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:33 pm

I think I'm the only person I know that's not too fond of it

The only fast food kind of thing that I like is pizza. Pizza is yummy.

Post by **Frug** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:34 pm

General Tso chicken for the win.

phoenixbyrd · Post by **phoenixbyrd** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:43 pm

Home made Chinese food is good too. I love making egg fried rice.

AngelMacleod · Post by **AngelMacleod** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:10 pm

I'm a HUGE fan of Chinese food. But the only dish I've ever made homemade was chicken or pork chow mein. Still, it's really good.

I think I have a sudden craving for it now...(drools)

Elvren Sigorax · Post by **Elvren Sigorax** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:48 pm

I vastly prefer indian.

phoenixbyrd · Post by **phoenixbyrd** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:59 pm

I made him get an Indian Takeaway recently... mmmm Paratha, pilua and samosa's....

Amira Lum · Post by **Amira Lum** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:37 am

Orange chicken. Mmmmmm.

When I was still in debate, we used to go out to Chinese every weekend after a tournament, usually at 2 AM, and at some hole-in-the-wall place in whatever city we happened to be in. The twelve of us would order about 10 different plates, and just pass everything in a circle. That's the way to eat Chinese...mmmm...

I know what I'm having for dinner tomorrow!

Post by **Blood Ravenous** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:59 am

Lol, that sounds a little unhealthy, Amira. Especially with MSGs

Amira Lum · Post by **Amira Lum** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:48 pm

You don't all eat off the same plate, silly. You scoop portions onto your own plate. Haha.

Post by **Pagusel** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:10 pm

I really can't stand American-style Chinese food. Crispy deep-fried pieces of chicken or pork covered in unnaturally colored sticky-sweet sauce . . . it's a very vague approximation of a small corner of the cuisine spectrum from one region of China; that is, the Southeast. Most cities that have China town districts at least have some restaurants that aren't catering to the tastes of what has become the general American perception of what Chinese food is. But yeah, on the whole, Americans are woefully impoverished of opportunities to eat actual Chinese cuisine, which can be amazingly incredible. That being said, this morning I had a jaunt down to the public market in the city and bought a zongzi for breakfast. It's a big ol' dumpling of sticky rice chock full of fatty pork chunks and soft nuts, wrapped up in bamboo leaves.

Post by **Frug** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:27 pm

Pagusel wrote:Rant rant rant.

You wanna talk about real chinese food? You have to include all the absolutely disgusting things they eat over there too. I'm fine with my plum sauce covered unidentifiable giblets.

Pretty much any major city has a big china town in which you can find real chinese food anyway. You just have to have the guts to go into these places, because on the whole (at least here) they aren't very appealing. I've been to some really bad ones too. It's hard to tell which ones are honest ethnic places, and which ones are just disgusting shit holes.

Mostly, I stick to 'american' chinese food (in a city with a massive chinatown like Toronto) and if I want ethnic I go for something else, like indian.

You know what's foul though? that KFC stuff. That's foul. Ew.

Elvren Sigorax · Post by **Elvren Sigorax** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:51 pm

KFC were forced to change their name from Kentucky Fried Chicken, for false advertising. Nuff Said.

Lylessa Uluki · Post by **Lylessa Uluki** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:07 pm

I'm really, really sorry to be a wet blanket, but as a folklorist I simply can't help myself...

http://snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.asp

That is all.

Jenica Sabiny · Post by **Jenica Sabiny** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:12 pm

When I want pure grease, I get KFC. It's like grease city. Did you want some chicken with that grease? Combine that with authentic Southern Sweet Tea (did you want some tea leaves on top of your mound o' sugar?) you've got Heart Attack County.

Sometimes I forget I'm in the South...and then I remember they just opened a Bojangles here...and everyone was REALLY happy about that. (Including me, I love Bojangles! Bojangles bojangles! Yes, it's a slur for exactly what you think it is).