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jeffinflorida
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
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Location: "I'm too proud to beg and too lazy to work" Uncle Fester, The Addams Family season two
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 Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:55 am Post subject: WHERE ARE ALL THE EGGROLLS? |
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Ok, so I have been in China for 3 weeks.
WHERE ARE ALL THE EGGROLLS?
Where is General Tso's chicken?
Where is the Egg Foo Young?
Where is the steak and pepers?
I haven't seen a fortune cookie anyware...
Is this some myth put upon us by the American Association of Chinese Restaurants?
The food in Chinese restuarants in New York is REAL Chineses food, what is this junk they are serving me!
How do these people eat it everyday? |
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Norman Bethune
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:13 pm Post subject: Re: WHERE ARE ALL THE EGGROLLS? |
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| jeffinflorida wrote: |
Ok, so I have been in China for 3 weeks.
WHERE ARE ALL THE EGGROLLS?
Where is General Tso's chicken?
Where is the Egg Foo Young?
Where is the steak and pepers?
I haven't seen a fortune cookie anyware...
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Try these:
Chun Juan
Yaoguo Ji Ding
Jidan tang
Niu Rou he jiao
My Chinese is limited. But those come close enough to the American equivalents you are used to.
You just have to know what to ask for.
They have Chow Mein here. Try asking for it in a restaurant. Unless you say it right, like Chinese people do with the right tones and pronounciation, the waitress won't have a clue what you want. |
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coolrcdad
Joined: 03 Mar 2005
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Location: Shoreline, Washington
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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ResiWorld
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
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Location: 10,000 miles from hangzhou
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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You will never get a fortune cookie (well, I did once in Hong Kong, but you shouldn't).
Most of the things that we know as chinese food in America, come from Canton, or Guangdong. If you don't live there, try and find a cantonese restaurant in your city. Oh yea, if you want the fried noodles (chao mein) say it like - chow - me - in (rather than chow main), i said it like that at first and it didn't work well.
Other than that, I hope you learn to like the local cuisine, I've lived in three different places, and the food has been differnt each time, aside from the hotpot. Oh yea, eat hot pot (huo guo). Delicious! |
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Jolly
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| ResiWorld wrote: |
You will never get a fortune cookie (well, I did once in Hong Kong, but you shouldn't).
Most of the things that we know as chinese food in America, come from Canton, or Guangdong. If you don't live there, try and find a cantonese restaurant in your city. Oh yea, if you want the fried noodles (chao mein) say it like - chow - me - in (rather than chow main), i said it like that at first and it didn't work well.
Other than that, I hope you learn to like the local cuisine, I've lived in three different places, and the food has been differnt each time, aside from the hotpot. Oh yea, eat hot pot (huo guo). Delicious! |
Also, ask for Da Pan Ji (a big plate of chicken). It's to die for!
Enjoy all the wonderful tastes of the real China!
PS Is this topic job related? |
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ResiWorld
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Location: 10,000 miles from hangzhou
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Jolly wrote: |
PS Is this topic job related? |
Nope! |
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rickinbeijing
Joined: 22 Jan 2005
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Location: Beijing, China
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:45 am Post subject: Jeff, Jeff, Jeff |
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I think Homer is a little confused again. Fortune cookies are a Chinese American invention, from California to be precise. Egg rolls in their American incarnation are not Chinese fare either.
If you're having trouble finding good Chinese cuisine you're either in a very small town or not looking hard enough.
Every region has its specialties. It helps if you can ask for a cai dan (menu) in English in a big restaurant and jot down the dishes that approximate your tastes.
Be resourceful Jeff, this is China.
Oh, and keep this kind of thread to the other China forum, dude.
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joe greene
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| Go to the Quanzhou Hotel. Spend some of your huge salary. |
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jeffinflorida
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
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Location: "I'm too proud to beg and too lazy to work" Uncle Fester, The Addams Family season two
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:54 am Post subject: |
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We actually went to the Carp City Hotel and got great WESTERN food - but I really wanted great local food. Since the post I have ventured to some local resturants and had some very good cuisine.
The biggist issue is my lack of the local language and their lack of English menus. We went to Louzhou a local chain and the food was great but we didn't get anything we actually ordered - even though my friend spoke decent Chinese.
I just kinda figured resturants in China would be like the super buffet up the street. |
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Norman Bethune
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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| jeffinflorida wrote: |
I just kinda figured resturants in China would be like the super buffet up the street. |
Jeff....Jeff...Jeff...
Do the patrons of the super buffet up the street back in Florida spit bones on the table, spit phlegm on the floor, and smoke between mouthfuls of goo?
Oh sorry, yes they do. All the retirees at the super buffet for the daily 5 to 6 o'clock special all U' Can eat Dinner do.
For real Chinese food, the kind the masses eat everyday, you can't go wrong with the crap they serve in every canteen in every school in every city here.
Now that's some good pukings.. |
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Road_runner
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:19 am Post subject: Age of discovery...... |
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Hi Jeff,
Surprise, surprise, Jeff.
This is the REAL China, Jeff. What you have in Florida is the convenience American Chinese Food tailored to N American tastes.
Enjoy and discover as you stay longer in China, Jeff. Don't be surprised that you may find the food more exciting than the food in Florida.
You may never go back to those buffets.....
Good luck. |
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gunther
Joined: 07 Nov 2004
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Location: A harmonious socialist society
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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OH Man...
This post is tres drole!! Did you not do ANY research before coming here?
Chinese food back home sucks compared to the real thing. Try eggplant, doufu, dumplings, dishes in a bamboo steamer. Find your local Muslim Place, and enjoy the best noodles your ever gonna slurp. All these things are just outside your door, and are dirt cheap!!
When you go to expensive restaurants you'll most likely be with Chinese people anyway. Make sure to let it be known that you don't enjoy (I assume) congealed blood, stomach lining, internal organs, or miscellaneus "head parts". All else will probably be pretty tasty.
To all you canteen haters out there, what's so bad about stir fried vegetables and rice? |
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Norman Bethune
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| gunther wrote: |
OH Man...
To all you canteen haters out there, what's so bad about stir fried vegetables and rice? |
Hey Gunther, I agree, Canteen Food isn't too bad. For a few Kwai you get heaps of rice, veg, tofu, some of it is even edible.
Arrive early for lunch and the chow can be hot and delicious. Arrive late, after all the students and other teachers have, and what is left is usually cold lumps of starch and awful offal.
It's not the food that turns my stomach in the canteens I have been in. It is the sneezing, coughing, hacking, spitting in the food by the cooks and friendly staring food servers I have witnessed that puts me off.
I'm with you. The OP has to check out the small muslim hole in the wall restaurants for great Chinese grub. BBQ lamb, Fish, toasted Man to. And you know that if the food isn't exactly Hallal it comes close to being Kosher. |
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jeffinflorida
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
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Location: "I'm too proud to beg and too lazy to work" Uncle Fester, The Addams Family season two
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject: Okay |
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Okay, I've been here for like 4 weeks now and have found the better local restaurants and am impressed by the great taste of the food. In hindsight, and after much comparison, the food here puts the Super Buffet to shame. (And I can live with out the fortune cookies...).
I have enjoyed several very tasty meals. The trick is TO BRING A CHINESE PERSON WITH YOU. It makes ordering much easier and the chance of getting what you order much better.
Even some of the street cart vendors have some tasty stuff - those pancakes cooked in oil and the egg foo young type things.
I am happier and when I'm not, there's always McDonalds...
PS, got a little home sick - went to the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Xiamen, felt much better... |
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jeffinflorida
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Location: "I'm too proud to beg and too lazy to work" Uncle Fester, The Addams Family season two
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| More than 3 years later and I still can't find the eggrolls... |
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