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Old 08-10-2003, 07:00 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Chinese Food

a couple of inquiries here...
1. What is your favorite dish to order in a restaurant?
2. What is your favorite meal to make at home?
3. Will you share your recipe for your favorite at home meal?

I love Chinese food. I really want to learn more about how to make the great dishes!!!!

Do you order wonton, eggdrop or hot and sour soup?

just curious..... I keep trying to make dishes as good or better than my local 5 star place..... too tall an order...

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Old 08-10-2003, 07:05 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Eggdrop

General Gao chicken

Subgum fried rice

Won't even attempt it a home.
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Old 08-10-2003, 07:07 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Oh, great. I have several good Chinese recipes (cheap to make, too, although not that easy) but all my stuff's (recipes notebooks) in storage right now. Hrrm. Call me in a month.
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1. Nothing really, since they're all too sweet, and aren't exactly real Chinese cuisine. If I have to choose, I'd say fried rice.
2. Anything my mom makes.
3. Dunno, I don't cook the food around here.

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My favorite is Mapo Doufu, a Sichuan hot and spicy bean curd with ground pork. It will definitely make you sweat.

(I've scanned in the recipe, but I won't have time to clean it up and send it for a while.)
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Old 08-10-2003, 08:20 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Chinese Food

1. I like spicy pork chops or spicy squid (deep fried), girlfriend likes Cantonese chow mein.

2. Szechuan chicken and mixed vegetables is my fav at home and at a restaurant.

3. Szechuan chicken is really easy to make. I dunno the exact proportions though. But all we use:

1 - 3 table spoons of chili oil, depending on how hot you like it (with the seeds still in the jar, not chili paste or hot sauce)
1/4 to 1/2 spoon of salt (to your taste)
1/4 spoon msg (can be left out)
2 chicken breasts sliced into small chunks
1/2 can of Campbell's chicken broth
1 green pepper cut into 3/4 inch pieces
1 stick of celery thinly chopped
a handful of mushrooms cut in half
1/5 spanish onion slivered
starch to thicken up the "sauce"

How we cook it:

Pre heat wok on high, add some oil, add the chicken and salt, "stir fry" the chicken for about 3-4 minutes, add your veggies, add the chicken broth.

Cover the wok on high until the broth gets hot (time varies), stirring occasionally. When the broth gets hot, it only takes about 2-3 minutes for everything to cook up.

Finally, add chili oil to taste (careful, it's spicy!), mix it up good, then add some starch to the sauce until desired thickness is achieved. Once it's good, shut off the heat and serve it up! Tastes good on plain white rice or any type of fried rice.

For soup: Shark's Fin (if I can afford it ), Fish Maw and Crab meat, or Hot 'N Sour.

Egg/spring rolls and fried wontons are pretty easy to make, but I don't have a recipe handy. The gf makes the stuffing and I just roll them. I don't know how to make sweet and sour sauce either, we usually just get a container from a restaurant.

Mapo Tofu is good too...but I don't really like Tofu.
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Old 08-10-2003, 08:57 PM   #7 (permalink)
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MMmmmm...Mooshoo Pork [sp?]

Though I don't eat Chinese much anymore. Just seen & had too many bad experiences with them.

Like one where I say the cook dumpster diving in his work uniform, and the one where there was a fly floating dead in the shrimp's ice water and all they did was take it out, and the fried rice with chunks of bone in it, and the watermelon that had been cross containminated with the onions...

Though there was one good story some time ago in Collinsville, IL, where the restaurant was busted for the "$50 Special". Had I known, I may have tried it...they had some really good looking waitresses
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I love that sesame chicken!!


Ah man my mouths watering...
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Old 08-10-2003, 09:51 PM   #9 (permalink)
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All I eat from a restaurant is Wonton soup or an eggroll. Not really a big Chinese food fan. It's pretty much all disgusting. (Since I am used to eating Japanese food).

It's too hard and usually too expensive to eat REAL Japanese food.
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Mmmmmm I could go for a this or this right about now.

2 local dishes I love.
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