When you go to a chinese restaurant (any kind) what do you order?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

I'm a big peking duck guy myself. Though the last 20 times I've been down to chinatown I've had soup dumplings.

[sniffa]

1. fried rice is a must

(though bi-baby, the infideL gets an order of white rice)

and from there we try to spread it out among:

chicken wings
peking ravioLi (Love that shit!)
Low mein (with those dry noodLes)
spare ribs on the bone
scaLLion pancakes
beef & brocoLi

no matter what we get, my pLate gets smothered in the hot mustard sauce... preferabLy the kind that comes in a container, as the packet ones are crap.

[Sugar Smack]

3. *rrrrrrrrrrrr*

That's purring. That sounds GOOD. I'd also get Crab Rangoon.:D

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Crab rangoon and scallion pancakes for sure.

Possibly soft shelled crab cooked in a ginger scallion sauce if I'm really hungry.

[grasswire]

7. it's hard to get good fried rice anymore

...and if it's steamed, or comes with peas or carrots in it, I'm never going back. Real fried rice is nutty tasting, with bits of egg and char siu and scallion. It's my litmus test for a Cantonese restaurant. And I haven't had a good dish of it made properly in years.

[Kali]

60. yep

I like to order it with extra scallions and NO peas/carrots. Then they have to make it fresh.:evilgrin:

[redqueen]

24. Oh yes... beef broccoli...

I forgot about that stuff.

Soooo good.

[MonkeyFunk]

2. Mu-shu panda

[lost-in-nj]

4. I try to get

Honey chicken or
sweet and sour chicken
or General Tso's chicken

then an order of vegtable fried rice
and steamed dumplings.....
now I'm hungry!!!!


lost

[Richardo]

5. I go to a food-court Chinese joint for lunch nearly every day.

It's 'Chinese' in the sense that it has the word 'Wok' in the name. The recipes are shall we say 'unorthodox': the General Tso's chicken has jalapeno slices in place of the red chilies. :eyes:

Anyway, same order every time: mixed vegetables, General Tso's and glass of ice water. They start putting it together as soon as they see me approaching, which usually allows me to jump ahead of the menu-readers in line. It's good to be a regular. :thumbsup:

[tigereye]

62. hon, you need to branch out!

we had a place near where I used to work that had the WORST Chinese food ever! I only went once. It was truly horrible.

And the damn place is STILL THERE! :wtf:

[Deja Q]

6. Coconut shrimp, crab leg, hunan pork w/vegetables, seafood delight, sushi...

I'll yum it all up. :9

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. sushi?

[Deja Q]

16. Yeah, they wrap bits of vegetables, fruits, rice, and/or meat around raw fish skin...

Or seaweed...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. I believe that that is Japanese food. You know there are different types of

asian folk.

[unpossibles]

43. true but

a lot of the "Chinese" restaurants in my city are pretty pan-Asian. We have some amazing Thai & Japanese places, a few Chinese with Thai, Vietnamese, and Japanese, and some other similar mixes, plus the usual American stuff like sweet & sour. Not sure about the person who you were responding to, but it's pretty common here.

Anyway, there's a place in town that does amazing orange faux ribs with homemade tofu. yum. They are seriously addicting, and even non-vegetarians love them. The same place also does great mu shu, a wide variety of homemade noodle dishes and soups.

[Sugar Smack]

11. CHRIST on a coathanger. I thought you said "human pork"

for a second. Just read it wrong but GEEEEZE.:wow: Hey, I miss you, by the way.

[Deja Q]

13. LOL

Fortunately, I only pork humans but that's not germane to the OP's topic... :rofl:



And I miss you too. :pals: :hug:

[Richardo]

15. I *always* read that word as 'human'

:D

[jmm]

52. mmm...human pork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdfxNYKWcN4

[IndianaJones]

8. moo goo bye bye. nt.

[catmandu57]

10. The #5 combo

Usually sweet and sour chickee sweet and sour pork egg roll flied lice, or the buffet.

[NewJeffCT]

14. Lately, either moo goo gai pan or chicken & broccoli

as long as they put white sauce on it...

I get enough Chinese dumplings at home, so I never really order them in a restaurant.

When we go down to Main St. in Flushing, my wife usually orders some sort of fish dish for me, though I'm not sure what it's called.

[Broken_Hero]

17. Usually

Mongolian beef, or sesame chicken, fried rice, and egg foo young....

[Bennyboy]

18. Kung Pao shrimps...Hot and sour soup

and Steamed rice.

[dembotoz]

20. buffet

i know the purists cringe, but a nice buffet with lots of chooses, yum

[Magrittes Pipe]

21. Whatever looks good on the cart.

If ordering an entree, I like the basic stuff -- the real Chinese stuff, with the vegetable on the side. None of this chop suey shit. Salt and pepper scallops. That kinda stuff.

[jpgray]

22. General Tso's chicken! What's more classically chinese than that?

:P

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. Fortune cookies

[NewJeffCT]

31. lol - my wife hadn't even heard of fortune cookies

before she came to the US.

or General Tso's chicken or chop suey.

[redqueen]

27. Hey!

What, it's not?

Is it like some Mexican food, as in it's not so much actual Mexican food as much as just Mexican-inspired? :D

[jpgray]

28. I still like it. Just call it fusion cuisine, and hold your nose up in the air

:D

[redqueen]

23. General Tso's Chicken is one of my favorites.

Also Orange Chicken and Shrimp Fried Rice... (or chicken fried rice... or just fried rice by itself) Oddly, I only get white rice with a meal.

Mmmmm... now I'm hungry!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

46. One of my favorites!! Only problem ...

I don't know how to pronounce "sew", or "toe", or "toes", or ...

heck, just gimme some shrimp fried rice.

:rofl:

[Connonym]

57. I pronounce it like it rhymes with cow

but I have no clue whether that's right. I like when they put numbers on the stuff so that I don't have to embarrass myself by trying to pronounce things

[MissMillie]

26. I love shrimp w/ lobster sauce

over white rice

[laylah]

29. MooGoo Gaipan...

hot/sour soup. Love it!

[MissMillie]

30. good hot & sour soup is hard to find

only one restaurant w/i 20 miles of my house does a decent job.

[terrya]

32. Orange beef.

One of my favorites.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. Sweet and sour chicken w/ white rice

Sauce poured on the chicken but not the rice, and then I "pat" the rice with the chicken.

I always ordered it as a kid, and have never gotten out of ordering it now, even as an adult.

Although if I'm at a buffet, I'll add lo mein, dumplings, sesame chicken and fried rice.

[skyblue]

34. Won Ton Soup.

[TheMightyFavog]

39. When I was interning in London...

Thee was this Vietnamese stall in the Camden Lock Market next to the building where I was working that made the best won ton soup...

Damn... Now I'm craving some!

[LaraMN]

35. Fried rice and an egg roll.

I never branch out. I'm boring.

:P

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

47. Not boring at all ...

Fried rice, and egg roll, and a short skirt? Who said dinner had to be boring?

:hi:

:rofl:

[Carrieyazel]

36. Beef with Chinese Vegetable - (A lot of Chinese carryouts don't have it)

It has very crunchy vegetables in a thick sauce.

[EstimatedProphet]

37. Crab Rangoon and either Kung Pao something or Cashew Chicken, usually

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

38. Usually, Yakisoba.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakisoba

[China_cat]

40. Hot and sour wontons

but they are becoming harder to find.

[shanti]

41. chicken chow mein

is the usual suspect.

[DS1]

42. Kung Po chicken or beef + brocolli

One of the few times I can devour Brox

hot and sour soup
chicken fingers if we're getting appetizers

[AZBlue]

56. Those are my choices too

But the chicken has to be all white meat.

[Nikia]

44. Chicken with mixed vegtable

Or beef with mushroom. If I feel like a little bit more flavor, chicken or beef with garlic sauce. If I am feeling like a lot of carbs, sometimes I get lo mein.

[Arkansas Granny]

45. I love egg foo yung, especially with shrimp and vegetables.

[yellowdogintexas]

48. hot & sour soup, steamed dumplings and Szechuan pork and green beans

with xtra bean sprouts and straw mushrooms ..they are really nice about letting you add extra veggies to the dish.


oh yeah and a pot of tea. I am also usually sharing this with my daughter.


LOL, the owner likes to tease her and try to make her think he is out of dumplings because he knows she loves them.

[SPKrazy]

49. Me, I Like Kung Pao Chicken

or a spicy chicken dish

egg roll or steamed dumplings

hot and sour soup

:9

[Paladin]

50. Gen. Tso's Chicken, Pot Stickers, Egg Rolls, Fried Rice

May have to make a run to the neighborhood take-out place, now.....

[zingaro]

51. Hot garlic chicken. Veggie lo mein. Stuff with nuts in it.

I like crunchy. Water chestnuts or peanuts or cashews make me happy.

So do a couple of really good crab rangoon.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

53. Hot and sour soup

I judge the quality of a Chinese restaurant by its hot and sour soup, as well as the number of Chinese people eating there.

I like going for dim sum. I don't much care for the UFO "unidentified fried objects" approach to Chinese cooking.

[carly denise pt deux]

54. fried rice, lo mein noodles, anything with chicken and veggies,...

oh yeah, and tempura...I have an allergy to one spice in hot chinese food, so I can't eat anything spicy or hot or my face feels numb
Carly

[GreenPartyVoter]

55. General Tso's Chicken, Orange beef (spicy), pork fried rice, egg rolls, chicken wings, terriyaki

beef, and hot n sour soup.

Dang, I am so hungry now!

[Critters2]

58. General Tso's tofu, or Szechuan spicy tofu. and fried wonton. nt

[LoZoccolo]

59. Double-fried sliced pork with cilantro Jiazhou-style.

#503 at Lao Sze Chuan in Chicago's Chinatown.

[Bryan]

61. Sesame chicken and pot stickers!

I make no claims as to their authenticity, but every once in a while, I must have them, and only restaurants self-identifying as "Chinese" seem to carry them.

[Aristus]

63. Mongolian Beef.

Although the best in the region, probably the world, is served at a local Vietnamese, not Chinese, restaurant.

[Lethe]

64. Kung Pao chicken!!!! ....and so does about 1/4 of this thread it looks like

I agree with all you guys.

[riderinthestorm]

65. Vegetarian egg rolls, beef chop suey, shrimp fried rice.

That's if it's just me and the girls. If my husband is home we also order tofu egg foo young.

I admit though, we eat just about anything from a chinese restaurant. It's all good.

[TreasonousBastard]

66. Wor-shu duck, hot & sour soup, or...

the buffet.

So many lousy Chinese places out here that I usually just head for the buffet, it ain't great but it's variety.

[Wapsie B]

67. General Tso's Chicken,

Salt 'n Pepper Shrimp, Mussels, Cashew Chicken, Beef 'n Broccoli, Low Mein Noodles

[CreekDog]

68. All the cool kids say, "it depends on the restaurant"

[Skittles]

69. I like lemon chicken

:thumbsup:

[DarkTirade]

70. Sesame chicken.

Every time. And sometimes crab rangoons. Those are the two things I can't duplicate at home.

[alphafemale]

71. Hot & Sour Soup, Potstickers, House Special Lo Mein (with Garlic Chili Sauce. Mu Shu Pork.

Also like spicy dishes, especially with cashews. The spicier the better. Bring extra chili paste.

It's not hot enough until you're sweating and crying is our motto.

Chinese Spare Ribs.

Oh and Ginger Beef.



Funny story.

My kids would eat authentic Hot and Sour soup really young.

(And adding white pepper and vinegar by the way.)

In one restaurant my son who about 4 at the time was devouring his soup, but also wiping his tongue periodically with the napkin. He wasn't aware of it, but he actually drew an audience from the kitchen. They were pretty amused by him.

Remember:

He likes it! Hey Mickey! :D