Your favourite Chinese dish

[Wongo]

I know what you lot are like. You go to a Chinese restaurant. You whinge about there are no pictures on the menu. You ask silly question like “oh garlic king prawn, what’s in it?” You make the poor bugger, who gets paid $8 per hour, standing and waiting for you for 5 minutes and you end up ordering the usual “swit sour pok” or “king and broccoli” or “fly rice”. How pathetic!

So tell us what dish do you disgracefully order every time.

Ok I will start.:D We always get Pork in Peking sauce. Trust me it is very good. My wife and daughter just love it.

:D

[Shedhand]

warm monkey brains schezuan style ;):D

[E. maculata]

It's a beasutiful ming dyn number, saw it at the museum in Auckland many years ago:p
In edibles singapore noodles (I know they're not Chinese, but I do so luv them)but allegedly are of asian descent.

[silentC]

Where's the Peking Duck? That's my favourite ;)

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

boeuf en sauce à haricot noir

:)

[Wongo]

Bruce Singapore noddles is indeed Chinese. I know it is odd:o

Silent keep it under $20 mate and I glad you like it.

[echnidna]

half a dozen dim sims with soy sauce

[dazzler]

half a dozen dim sims with soy sauce

yeah baby!:D

I sneak them in when swmbo is out.......I feel dirty later but:o

[JDarvall]

There all pretty good to me, as long as the kitchens clean.

What cracks me up is the names of the restraunts in places like china town. As though they were made up during their first week of english school.

uno....Happy Happy dina. ......or ......The Golden smile......names like that.

[silentC]

half a dozen dim sims with soy sauce
And a Chicko Roll!!

[Cliff Rogers]

http://z.about.com/d/chineseculture/1/0/M/W/sex.gif

PS. Try sticking that in a google search.... :D

[journeyman Mick]

Wongo,
am I only allowed one dish? When we eat Chinese we go as a big family group and always order a whole heap of dishes centre serve - best way to eat Chinese food as you get to taste a lot of different dishes. Favourites:
Sizzling Mongolian Lamb (alright, so it's Mongolian and not Chinese)
Garlic Beef
Lup Chong ( both duck and pork liver)
Honey King prawns
combination short soup
garlic chicken
all eaten with white rice using chopsticks and a bowl, washed down with a couple of beers. If any of you is ever in Cairns the very best Chinese restuarant is "Kee Kong", it's so good that the owners of the most expensive reatuarant in Cairns for many years ("Tawnys", now gone sadly) ate there every Sunday night.

Mick (foodaholic;) )

[Cliff Rogers]

Here are some more.... :D :D :D

http://www.chinesenames.org/chinese-symbols/images/sex.gif

PS. If you are paying attention, the first one says the same thing.....
as the rest.

[JDarvall]

http://z.about.com/d/chineseculture/1/0/M/W/sex.gif

PS. Try sticking that in a google search.... :D

I just did !....all I got was one hit....some kind of cheap chinese site. :confused:

[bitingmidge]

Steamed Green Vegetable with Oyster Sauce!

P
:D

[Cliff Rogers]

I just did !....all I got was one hit....some kind of cheap chinese site. :confused:

Thats close to the type of Chinese dish I had in mind. :D

Opps, I didn't see the menu board up the top...
I'll have a #16, #27 & #35.

Do you have any Honey Chicken?

[JDarvall]

Thats close to the type of Chinese dish I had in mind. :D

Opps, I didn't see the menu board up the top...
I'll have a #16, #27 & #35.

Do you have any Honey Chicken?

How yo lyk your hunny chicken, sir ? ..... ooh, I'm not fussy sweatheart !,,I'd have you...I mean it, any old way !...:rolleyes: :D

We'd better be careful Cliff !....You'll kick poor Wongo's thread into some kind of coloured room :D .....somebody's going to mention dish #69 before too long no doubt......

[Cliff Rogers]

Just so long as it is NOT #181. :eek:

[Wongo]

Jake and Roger, you very bad man. :D

[Ashore]

Went with the BBQ pork in plum sauce , closest I could get to the two I cook most
Pork fillits in plum sauce
And pork ribs in BBQ sauce
Next would have to be good fried rice.



But in Japan the Goat testicle has got to be right up there, espically with a fried silk worm entree.



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[echnidna]

Went with the BBQ pork in plum sauce , closest I could get to the two I cook most
Pork fillits in plum sauce
And pork ribs in BBQ sauce
Next would have to be good fried rice.



But in Japan the Goat testicle has got to be right up there, espically with a fried silk worm entree.



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Is that why the golden adze swinger has taken a liking to goats? :eek:

[Cliff Rogers]

Is that why the golden adze swinger has taken a liking to goats? :eek:

Nope, they took a liking to him, get it right. :D

[echnidna]

Thats right, I remember THE picture

[scooter]

yeah baby!:D

I sneak them in when swmbo is out.......I feel dirty later but:o

Er, what do you do with them Daz :eek: :o

[Shedhand]

yeah baby!:D

I sneak them in when swmbo is out.......I feel dirty later but:osteamed! m.mmmm

[Termite]

Braised Duck with Vegetables, or for a bit of fun when I had the money Drunken Shrimp.

[craigb]

Chicken's feet, definitely the chicken's feet. :rolleyes:

[Slavo]

Salt and Pepper squid

[CameronPotter]

I gotta agree with Silent.

Peking Duck is great.

Sweet and Sour Pork

Pork Bows (rice flour buns)

Prawn Toast

Crispy Skin Chicken

BBQ Pork Spare Ribs

The only thing is that I have had this and been to a friends place whose grandmother was always cooking what they called traditional Chinese food - very different. What we call Chinese they called Royal Chinese.

Anyway, one day I was there and they said - have you ever had abalone, I said no (but I have now) and they gave me this stuff. My friend said that it didn't taste like abalone afterall, he went in and asked what it was...

sea slug.

Basically, it was just like salty leather.

:rolleyes:

Cam

[goat]

But in Japan the Goat testicle has got to be right up there, espically with a fried silk worm entree.



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[echnidna]

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I hope yer not walking around lopsided mate:D

[Andy Mac]

Order them all and call it a banquet!:D Maybe add squid with brocolli and black fungus.

Cheers,

[aljenit]

Mongolian lamb at the "Wok Right Inn".:D Delicious

[oges]

Other: Chicken in black bean sauce

[jmk89]

I voted "Other" for salt and pepper squid.

[goat]

I hope yer not walking around lopsided mate:D

carn't walk mate the thought of it has crippled me:(

[DavidG]

Shantung Chicken.
Dry shredded chilli beef.
Combination.
Randang.
Sop.
and quite a few things my wife makes but I do not know the name of.:D

[Auld Bassoon]

Hi Scott!

OK, I'll fall for this :)

I really like Chinese food, and often visit Melbourne's China Town and try the various regional dishes.

The very limited selection (and wholly disregarding the #'s), that you offer, is only a small part of the repertoire.

There are a couple of places that I go to quite often, and having told the family (almost always family run places) what I do like (most) and don't like (not all that much, but do draw the line at a chook's head...), I just ask for what they are having...

[ele__13]

Love chinese food combination vegies
chicken and cashews and other stuff 2

i cant eat any of the pork or pork full stop
but i love asian food ... we cooked
Beef Rendang for dinner doug cut i cooked and worked well our tag team dinners are brillaint and he makes really divine honey chicken cheers all jules :D

[Wongo]

Yes Jules go cats if you know what I mean. :D

Tonight I was going to cook some stir fried Chinese broccoli with garlic. But I thought my mate bitingmidge loves boiled vegs with oyster sauce. So I boiled some water, added a few drops of oil and boiled the vegs for a few minutes. Drained it and added oyster sauce.

Yum.

[Bodgy]

Rendang (wonderful that it is) ain't Chinese, it is an ethnic Malay dish.

Asia is a huge continent, with many varied and distinct peoples. The Chinese may be the most populous, but all Asians aren't Chinese! Then there's the Sub Continent!

Even China has many different ethnic groups. The Hakka, who traditionally lived on boats in the Canton area, would probably feel no closer to a Beijing native than I would feel to a Federal Politician.

Wongo could no doubt expand on this with far greater eloquence - the Chinese ethnicity I mean, not the blood suckers in Canberra.

Anyway, my votes for Peking Duck (would it be more PC to say Beijing Duck?)

[Wongo]

Bodgy what makes you post such an emotional response. I told you those malay dishes are hot.:p

[ele__13]

[quote=Bodgy]Rendang (wonderful that it is) ain't Chinese, it is an ethnic Malay dish.

OPpps and Yeah we where eating the Indonesian Version of this dish forgot to type that in last nite hehhe and Wongo hhehh cheeky boy u will keep !!!

[Bodgy]

Bodgy what makes you post such an emotional response. I told you those malay dishes are hot.:p

Couple of beers and a bottle of red, I expect.

[DanP]

In this order:

Peking duck from Red Emperor (Southbank)
Peking Duck from Flower Drum (Melbourne)
Peking Duck from Man Mo (Docklands)
Peking Duck from Silks (Casino)


I like Peking Duck (In case you couldn't tell)

Dan

[Bodgy]

DAn

Is the Flower Drum still good? Haven't been there for years, but it used to be marvellous. As good as the Imperial Peking at the Quay, before they lost it.

[Termite]

[quote=Bodgy]Rendang (wonderful that it is) ain't Chinese, it is an ethnic Malay dish.

OPpps and Yeah we where eating the Indonesian Version of this dish forgot to type that in last nite hehhe and Wongo hhehh cheeky boy u will keep !!!
A good Beef Rendang takes at least 12 hours to cook..........Take 20 chillies and.....:eek:

[Auld Bassoon]

DAn

Is the Flower Drum still good? Haven't been there for years, but it used to be marvellous. As good as the Imperial Peking at the Quay, before they lost it.

Sorry to butt in, but IMO they've gone down a bit of late - maybe just one of those swings?

[Bodgy]

No restuarants seem to be able to maintain their standards. It must be a tough business. Even that icon Vlado's is apparently very, very average now, used to be so good. Great for o/s visitors foolish enough to say they enjoy steak.

Only place that seems to have kept up the standard is Tetsuya - still good and innovative as ever.

Sorry Wongo, back to your diet.

[BobR]

So many to choose from - can't make up my mind. They all look the same to me :rolleyes:

[Iain]

Mongolian Lamb, providing its done properly, not just a bit of lamb soaked in some goop.
Soak lamb in water for thirty minutes to remove blood, squeeze dry, marinate twice................
The only place I ever found that did it right was a little restaurant in Crookwell of all places while we were on a fly fishing trip a few years ago.
Apart from that get Charmaine Solomans book on Asian cooking to get it right.
Apart from that we like yum cha at WestLake.
Too many chineses restaurants in the suburbs are all the same, must be someone selling mass produced sauces as I reckon they all taste like crap, and rotten with MSG which gives me a screaming headache for the next two days.

[Ashore]

So many to choose from - can't make up my mind. They all look the same to me :rolleyes:

Thats why they have numbers silly :p

[Tikki]

Bean cakes (yummmmeeeee!!!) ... but one is a meal for me :o