Posted on 05/13/2009 6:04:45 AM PDT by VRWCmember
I love chinese food and have tried a lot of different places - Changs has a dish called DanDan Noodles - spicy ground chicken with noodles, cucumber and carrots - exceptional!
Of course it is, that is true Chinese cuisine. There is very little meat, be it beef, pork, chicken, or seafood, in most true Chinese dishes. The huge (by Chinese standards) amounts of meat in dishes one gets in American Chinese restaurants are an Americanization of the cuisine.
we are so pathetic, the girls and i will go and order 5 dishes when there are only three of us, because we like what we like and we want to have some of all of it. So we spend $70 for lunch, but there are tons of leftovers and xsboy isn’t usually with us, but he loves it too. our normal dishes are dandan noodles, changs spicy chicken, kung pao chicken/shrimp, mushu pork. It is always a drag if we go with someone who doesn’t like spicy chinese bc almost all that we like is spicy/ we went with my brother and his family when they were in town and they loved it, but ordered the more bland stuff/.
well considering i am paying $10 per entree, i would prefer to have more meat than vegetables. authentic or not!
You have had a lot more opportunities to have ethnic foods since you grew up in such a huge city. I’m sure eating in Chinatown was cool, or going to the Indian or Russian areas was interesting - I grew up in a town of 100,000 people in the South - if it wasn’t fried, it wasn’t on the menu. Occasionally a breaded baked fish - but other than that, it was fried. We didn’t get much opportunity for unusual foods - Pizza was our italian - everything else was just plain old American or TexMex. ;^)
So did you go last night?
xshub was supposed to travel to china for business, he flat out refused to go. i was sure i would have to pack his suitcase full of peanut butter crackers bc he could eat NOTHING there and i wouldn’t blame him in the slightest. i wouldn’t touch chinese food in china with a 10 foot pole, i don’t care how AUTHENTIC it is.
Yep! I love Bostons Chinatown, went there with my coworker who grew up in Hong Kong, he always ordered, and meat was atypical, and it was for flavor, not volume.
My dad spent a lot of time in Southeast Asia, and loved to learn how to cook new stuff there. Unless he just signed a new contract and bought a roast beef, we had asian food about half the time or better. Very little meat. very little sauce. Veggies and rice. Man, could that goofy old fart cook! I miss his cooking.
My mom made a killer Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. :)
no, bc xsbrownie had her last ccd class which was a very nice Mary May Crowning prayer service, where she had a speaking role. xsteen will be home in 2 days and that will be tops on her list when she gets home.
I went to Changs about 10 days ago. Real good Americanized Chinese chow! Best Chinese i’ve had since moving here.
i told you how xsteen’s friends when they were in Italy were absolutely JONESING for tex-mex! they’d go every week now, she just isn’t that into it, again, bc its something we eat only once every few months or so.
No problemo.....you’ve dissed many of my favorite foods without ever having tried them either, and tho that wasn’t the point of my comments, I guess it works.
As to being a food snob, yup I am. And proud of it because I have come by it honestly. When I come across something new or different I’m always willing to try it and if I like it find out how to properly make it myself.
My son (5) has a big appetite for a dish that is basically the same as calamari at a Chinese restaurant we go to - and he's a picky eater!
I wouldn't try calamari on a dare,
You should. It really is very good.
For someone new to it I would recommend the calamari rings over the smaller calamari.
um........not so much around my neck of the woods......while there are a couple of ok Italian locally owned joints....the best choice in my area is Olive Garden. Cleanliness I don’t worry so much about there.......if you get my drift.
and will y’all stop grossing me out with the raw fish?
Hofstott’s continues to be a regular haunt for martin_fierro sr. (dad), who lives in Verona.
Last I heard the food quality there had suffered somewhat because of one of the owner’s/chef’s personal problems.
Yuppie? I knew it....you been faking that red neck stuff haven’t cha? LOL
well these restaurants are up in the backwoods of marcy NY and the holland patent school district where my BIL lives. When my SIL died, those people brought tons of food to the house, both BIL and SIL had taught their kids in school. it was very homecookied, good quality stuff. i like olive garden just fine.
LOL! Hey, I do have one of those dorky yacht club outfits, white shoes and all, but that’s just to score free drinks at the marina down the street on occasion.
the daddio lives in Verona, how cool! my childhood stomping grahnds. both maternal grandparents are buried up there on top of the hill.
As much as I love Chinese food, I actually prefer Thai, Vietnamese or Japanese.
Your DanDan Noodles dish sounds very similar to a Thai dish I love, the difference being it is beef, not chicken.
The ground meats of oriental cooking are so different than what we consider “ground” meat. It is more of a mince than anything.
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