Chinese Mixables

[BearBio]

I love to cook Chinese food. So simple: Meat (chicken, pork, beef or shrimp), vegetables (bok choy or cabbage, celery, carrots, maybe some peppers or radishes), canned veggies (bamboo shoots and/or water chestnuts), a sauce or spices (Hoisin, lobster, fish sauces, red pepper flakes, garlic, ginger, five spice), noodles or rice (white or fried). Saute meat, mix & stir fry whatever else you've got.

Never turns out bad.

 

[OFT II]

HUH?
I like Chinese food and have lived in the PRC and Taiwan.
The way they do it here doesn't compare with REAL Chinese food.
The food is the only thing that I miss about China - Taiwan, on the other hand.....
The food in Hong Kong is Britized - Here it's Americanized. They should leave it alone (known as Family Style here).

I've had some great Chinese food in China. I've also had some bad stuff there like eel, duck and chicken feet, turtle and other critters that I really didn't want to know about. Some of the best was in Chongquing. Some of the worst was in Harbin and Korla. Taiwan had really good food.

 

[Arik]

I had a desert made from turtle but looked and tasted like a large tootsie roll! Was pretty good. And i love chicken feet. My mom used to make it for me when I was a kid

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[walkin jack]

I was one of those kids that didn't like for any of the dishes on my plate to come into contact with each other. Drove my dad nuts. Didn't take me long to outgrow all that but I still remember the concept.

But as the OP says when it comes to Chinese food it's all good and it all goes together. When we hit the Chinese buffet in our 'hood I put 4 items all together on the plate and the second layer is 4 more things and the 3rd layer is 4 MORE things.

Obviously, I'm over my childhood fears but now I'm too dang lazy to keep walkin' back and forth to the food counters....Just get it all in one load.

 

[timn8er]

I was one of those kids that didn't like for any of the dishes on my plate to come into contact with each other. Drove my dad nuts. Didn't take me long to outgrow all that but I still remember the concept.

But as the OP says when it comes to Chinese food it's all good and it all goes together. When we hit the Chinese buffet in our 'hood I put 4 items all together on the plate and the second layer is 4 more things and the 3rd layer is 4 MORE things.

Obviously, I'm over my childhood fears but now I'm too dang lazy to keep walkin' back and forth to the food counters....Just get it all in one load.

WJ, I was the same way! At one point my Dad got so sick of it he got me & my sister metal lunch trays, the kind with the compartments? My sister & I loved them, but my Dad thought it was ridiculous & took them away from us. I too outgrew that habit & have developed a new one, which is eating the different servings on my plate equally, & when I'm down to the last few bites of each serving I'll stir everything together & finish it off like that. I don't know why!

 

[timn8er]

I love to cook Chinese food. So simple: Meat (chicken, pork, beef or shrimp), vegetables (bok choy or cabbage, celery, carrots, maybe some peppers or radishes), canned veggies (bamboo shoots and/or water chestnuts), a sauce or spices (Hoisin, lobster, fish sauces, red pepper flakes, garlic, ginger, five spice), noodles or rice (white or fried). Saute meat, mix & stir fry whatever else you've got.

Never turns out bad.

What! No Onions!? You might also try those miniature baby corn ears mixed in with your stir fry. I like them a lot & feel they add a good flavor. You can get them at Wally World.

 

[gm272gs]

Came to this thread looking for photos of a Hangyang Arsenal / Norinco love child.

Maybe some cross between a type 88 rifle and a 1911.

But NO, it ends up being about mixing your fried rice with your noodles.
Thread does NOT deliver.

 

[walkin jack]

I love to cook Chinese food. So simple: Meat (chicken, pork, beef or shrimp), vegetables (bok choy or cabbage, celery, carrots, maybe some peppers or radishes), canned veggies (bamboo shoots and/or water chestnuts), a sauce or spices (Hoisin, lobster, fish sauces, red pepper flakes, garlic, ginger, five spice), noodles or rice (white or fried). Saute meat, mix & stir fry whatever else you've got.

Never turns out bad.

I like too add bean sprouts to many of the Chinese food dishes I cook, especially Fried rice. Doesn't change the taste a great deal but adds a great texture.

 

[RonJ]

Came to this thread looking for photos of a Hangyang Arsenal / Norinco love child.

Maybe some cross between a type 88 rifle and a 1911.

But NO, it ends up being about mixing your fried rice with your noodles.
Thread does NOT deliver.

Sorry man, that type of thread no longer fits in the lounge!

 

[zoom6zoom]

If you like good Chinese food stay out of China.

Yeah, but over there they just call it "food"

 

[RonJ]

In Northern Thailand we must have gotten a mix. It was nothing like the Thai food we get here and closer to Chinese. Way spicier than either one we get here. In Udorn there was a little place called Teachers Inn. They had excellent food. My favorite dish was sauteed beef in a thin gravy with tiny little green peppers scooped onto a bed of white rice. The waitresses used to tease us about the tears we shed. Short of Insanity Sauce it's the hottest food I've ever tasted. I did get used to it after a few months though. The taste was delicious after I got past the heat.
Their version of fried rice was called Khaopot (cow pot). It was served cold with green onions on the side. Best fried rice ever! Nothing like Thai fried rice you get here!
Being near the border there was a mix of Thai, Chinese, Lao and Cambodians. I have no idea of what version of food I was getting.
One of the hotels in town was run by the Chinese and they had an American style restaurant on the top floor. I could buy genuine Kobe beef and a really great shrimp cocktail for about $7.00 per plate.
During my stay I only got sick once. My girlfriend brought home some crab legs that left me weak and nauseous for two days.