thread of pictures of real chinese food

people who are allowed to post itt: dylannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, ken c, people who have been to china

http://i.imgur.com/kv4RQ.jpg

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bella/pandaexpressfood.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YrcEH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MMLkn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EsT1c.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/e4bHt.jpg

mmmm that one looks good

http://i.imgur.com/UDM24.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ggr3j.png

oh whoops how did that get in here *blushes*

http://i.imgur.com/kEueC.jpg

How about Chinese food by way of Indonesia:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/2504681483_baef5d95d0.jpg
Pangsit Mie Ujung Pandang by closari, on Flickr

also acceptable

http://i.imgur.com/LIACM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XYlHj.jpg

annotations pls

i go to a restaurant every couple weeks w my mom where all the food looks like this. her & her husband started going bc a food critic friend of theirs (recently died of cancer rip) told them it was the closest to what he had eaten on trips to china. even tho it is insanely good & unlike any other chinese food i was kind of incredulous cause its p salty. but ive eaten at least a few of these there

http://i.imgur.com/D0QuM.jpg

^^ imperative that you use fresh shrimp, preferably from the sea

boy all this image searching is making me tired! I think I'm gonna take a break. btw vegetarians sorry, chinese cuisine can definitely be vegetarian friendly but it's hard and I don't know too much about that! I will try to search for more veg dishes later

the tinfoil island makes it

before I stop you can all have some DUMPLINGS!

http://i.imgur.com/VFOz1.jpg

okay I couldn't stop here is a vegetarian one (sometimes, it usually has ground pork but you can ask them to not put it in or eat around it?)

http://i.imgur.com/RXUdG.jpg

oh jeez how do those pictures keep on ending up in my thread http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae301/EarlyMemphis/Smileys/BlushingSmiley.gif

http://i.imgur.com/SkNgc.jpg

what is the purple stuff

eggplant

so, so purple

I think the only thing I never could get with with Chinese cooking is the excessivbe amount of dishes glossed up or thickened with that cornflour/water gloop. And the heavy saltiness, yeah.

some of the pictures are a little too 'colorful' but it does look that way irl! one of the criteria chinese chefs are judged on is 'color' (strangely enough)

the cornflour/water goop is a sign of cantonese cooking. the shiny stuff you're seeing in these pictures is oil (lol).

Oh hahaha :D

what is the first picture on the thread? feel like it could be just about anything

pork belly

same dish

http://i.imgur.com/BitdY.jpg

ah, okay

pork belly is such a wonderful thing

Serious pavlovian response to this.

eggplant is a top 5 food and that looks amazing

annotations pls

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Monday, September 5, 2011 7:37 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark

1. 红烧肉
2。 panda express
3。 口水鸡
4。 I forget, it just looks pretty
5。 刀削面
6。 炸酱面
7。 兰州拉面
8。 松鼠鱼
9。 Pangsit Mie Ujung Pandang
10。 干炒牛河
11。干锅
12。白灼虾
13。 水饺
14。 鱼香茄子or maybe 红烧茄子
15。 红烧肉

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4224921451_68c45e0538.jpg

菜包

http://i.imgur.com/sBv25.jpg

糖醋藕片

#5 is going to haunt me

http://i.imgur.com/RfyMh.jpg

西兰花清炒香菇

dayo you should send that last one to buff and max's mom

Ooh whats that steamed bun full of greens? That looks delish.

http://i.imgur.com/TzaCc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rcABG.jpg

炒芥兰菜

http://i.imgur.com/Lf2Ly.jpg

蒜炒豆苗

Ah, gai lan in oyster sauce, love that stuff.

Have to admit I like the walnut shrimp (I'm easy).

The article got the geography wrong, Glendale is west of Rosemead, not east.

The piece is strangely hagiographic and "talking points"-laden, as if Panda Express corporate was behind it. ("Look how clean and fresh everything is, so come on back to real Chinese food value, America!")

On another level, fuck it. McDonalds is dead on its feet and everyone in fast food is either running scared or trying to reinvent themselves as a startup that happens to make "healthy fresh experiences." This Panda Express happens to look like a decent place to grab a fast food lunch and it will probably kill you less quickly than McDonalds which is now proven to cause ass cancer according to the World Health Organization. Chicken and broccoli never caused any ass cancer, neither did steamed rice.

Yeah, forgot to mention that it sounds like a paid ad. I actually wouldn't eat there by choice, but sometimes we get catered stuff at work from there, and I rarely pass up free food.

panda express not behind in the game, they had that seasonal orange chicken w/bacon

opposite of thread title but I thought dayo would like this article
http://www.eater.com/a/panda-express-one-day

panda apparently recruits experienced cooks from china?

― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, November 9, 2015 9:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

thanks yeah i love panda express i love asian americans millionaires!

:)

Yesterday I overheard my spouse telling his friend, "I mean, don't get me wrong, I love good, real Chinese food. But every week or so [of our two and a half months in China], I'd have to eat something not Chinese. Like Mexican. Or pizza. But not [quincie]. She ate Chinese every day, like, five times a day. She could not get enough Chinese food."

And now I really can't get enough Chinese food :(

aw! :)

I never thought I'd say I Miss Suburban Maryland, but I frequented at least half a dozen places for real Chinese food when I worked there.

I have tried but can't get real Chinese food to happen at home. Ingredients aren't the problem, I don't think. . . but it just doesn't taste like delicious restaurant Chinese food.

need some hundred year master stock

And MSG.

Been hooning back a lot of 开胃金针菇 & 热干面 as the weather's gotten colder. Also, so many diff names for 拍青瓜!

Sadly my decision to stick w/ostensible vegetarianism has cut off a bunch of delicious options from me ... OTOH, coming from NZ places where there's generally an effort made for halal options (+ gluten-free etc) the DNGAF attitude of institutional meals is kinda intense; I can see why I'm one of the few 老外 at the canteen here.

I miss having a kitchen/cooking (mainly curries & bean-based things, though I can always go to 小北, I guess) - been trying to make notes of dishes to try and recreate back home but it's a bit haphazard. Need to pick up some local cookbooks for reading practise / inspiration - any recs, dayo?

really need to find some real chinese food in my neighborhood. maybe by figuring out where local chinese ppl go and order off-menu? not aware of any place that has on-menu stuff

prime exception is the place in a college town about 45 minutes away. love going there and ordering about anything, and watching people picking mixed seafood out of hot pots

oh duh! there's a place near me that does dim sum on sundays. that stuff is pretty legit, but it's obviously not larger items. good time to eat some bun and chicken feet though

putting this here for posterity http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/search/collection/newman/order/title/page/2

Need to pick up some local cookbooks for reading practise / inspiration - any recs, dayo?

― etc, Tuesday, December 8, 2015 1:30 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

i'd proably just walkt into a bookstore and go to the cooking section!

last time i was at the bookstore in beijing, they had like 3 aisles of cookbooks, and 2 sections devoted just to congee

I never thought I'd say I Miss Suburban Maryland, but I frequented at least half a dozen places for real Chinese food when I worked there.

I have tried but can't get real Chinese food to happen at home. Ingredients aren't the problem, I don't think. . . but it just doesn't taste like delicious restaurant Chinese food.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, December 7, 2015 8:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

tbh most home cooked chinese food doesn't taste like restaurant chinese food, which is more oily/flavor forward

http://i.imgur.com/cjYOwbi.png

am i being too sensitive here or is this a little messed

fucked up definitely.

wait... is he going to eat the child

read a bit further, i guess not. still very strange.

it is definitely fucked

i had real chinese food yesterday, it was amazing

like the best bean curd i have ever eaten

do they bring out special food at restaurants if you have a chinese child?

but yeah whoa wtf dude

i just assumed Fong Chong is a helluva cook

i mean just imagine this mother's disappointment if she doesn't live up to that pedigree

The lobster variations (LA edition).

http://www.culinarybackstreets.com/wp-content/uploads/CYB_final2.jpg
http://culinarybackstreets.com/wp-content/uploads/CYB_final.jpg

https://www.foodnut.com/i/Shanghai-Restaurant-Reviews/Yangs-Fry-Dumpling-Shanghai-10.jpg

http://www.timing-design.com/food/thw9.jpg

Awww man I want those DUMPLINGS!. No one in my area makes them like that, it's all just minced chicken in wonton wrappers.

Weird, I don't think I capitalized DUMPLINGS! but... I do feel strongly about them.

Okay. Is there an auto replace for that word? Weird.

It's a universal auto-replace. When you say word DUMPLINGS! the universe chimes along with you.

ilx has felt that way about DUMPLINGS! for a very long time

you folks really like dumplings huh

Even the British sense of the word are awesome.

those were from Yang's Fry DUMPLINGS! in Shanghai; they're basically soup DUMPLINGS! but w/ a slightly thicker skin maybe and also the bottoms are pan-fried and they are coated w/ sesame seeds

DUMPLINGS!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shengjian_mantou

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/chongqings-number-one-noodle-obsessive/

this is cross posted from the cookbooks thread but:

Can anyone recommend a book or coobkook that is as comprehensive of an overview of Chinese cuisines as is possible? I had my eye on "All Under Heaven" by Carolyn Phillips and "China: The Cookbook" by Kei Lum Chan and Diora Fong Chan but idk what else is out there

I've been wanting to get a Fuchsia Dunlop cookbook, I don't know if she's written one comprehensive one though.

thread of missing dayo

otm

I ordered Every Grain of Rice b/c I've been hankering for a new cookbook

Good choice imo

Great choice.

excited to eat some pork with pork sauce