A Guide to Chinese Takeout Menus

ABC ^ | July 31, 2004 | N/A

[chemicalman]

Love the General chicken. Watch out for the little red peppers.

[Question_Assumptions]

And Chinese food in Japan is very different from Chinese food in the US -- both of which are probably different from Chinese food in China. Of course having eaten "American" food and "Mexican" food in Japan, and having eaten real Japanese food in Japan (which is often quite different from what Americans think of as "Japanese" food), that's not really all that surprising. Things get mangled in the translation.

[Petronski]

Cultural ping.

[krb]

probably different from Chinese food in China.

Or as they call it over there, "food."

[LibWhacker]

"But," he sniffs, "putting a piece of paper inside a baked good doesn't sound too sanitary."

Wonder how he feels about Snakehead Wine? Has a real snake's head in the bottle. Only in China.

[Scarchin]

Dang - ya got me craving it now. Oh well- time to call for delivery!

[joesnuffy]

General Tso's Chicken....big kung pao bump for my favorite......

[Serb5150]

Chinese food in China is excellent, but very greasy.

[CAPTAIN PHOTON]

that made me hungry

[Betis70]

General Tso's Chicken! Yummmmm.

"Excuse me, waiter? I can only detect 3 varieties of snake in my 5 Snake Soup. Can you prove to me that there are actually 5 types of snakes in here?"

Actual comment made by a (white) friend of mine to a waiter. His Chinese wife was horrified. LOL. What a jokster.

[Rebelbase]

I'm eating chow mein, shrimp toast and eggroll at the moment.

[chilepepper]

let the food wars begin! the best chinese food is served in san francisco, the best pizza in new york, the best mexican food is texas...

[budwiesest]

scrawny pieces of chicken studded with perilous slivers of bone - a far cry from the juicy, boneless poultry chunks familiar to Americans.

Your are what you eat?

[Petronski]

Trivia: Anyone remember Ghetto-opoly? Well the parents of the guy who created that game are the people who run my local chinese restaurant. Sadly, they don't put peanuts in the Kung Pao anymore. I haven't had a good Kung Pao in years.

[geros]

Possibly the worst most unauthentic Chinese food is found in Germany : they make it taste like a cross between sauerbraten and sauerkraut

[arielb]

but snake is an animal. and if it's an animal in china then it's edible

[Question_Assumptions]

Or as they call it over there, "food."

I'm sure there is a way to distinguish domestic Chinese cuisine in China from foreign cuisine, just as one can identify distinctly American food from cuisine borrowed from other cultures.

[T Minus Four]

Let's not even get started on Mezcal!

[Rebelbase]

". Things get mangled in the translation."

I know what you mean. Vietnamese run the local Taco Bell and Mexicans cook at the greek place nearby.