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[lowpo]

I was just reading a post by brento1138.
My wife will be moving to Korean from Southern China and we have talked about opning a Chinese restaurant. Not a Korean style restauant, but an actual Chinese restaurant.
Would you think people would be interested?

[rocklee]

Of course, but it depends on what kind of Chinese food you're offering, Canton, Szechuan etc etc. Most people in the world like the Canton/HK style chinese food popularised in the better parts of SE Asia.

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[rocklee]

Yeah I know this, quite popular in QingChong (spicy version) and SE Asia (soupy pork version).

I would really like to see more HK style chinese food though

[cangel]

I think it really depends on if you want to keep your restaurant authentic or not. I would say, that a good 90% of all the people I have met who have been to China, have stated that they did not like authentic Chinese food. Yes of course there are dishes that they all enjoyed but by and large they came away disappointed. This is also my opinion having been to China several times. People tend to prefer the �western version� of Chinese food. I have only been in Korea a month but I was in Japan for 6 years and the opinions are pretty much the same. My personal gripe is authentic Chinese food is too oily and in many (not all) instances, difficult to eat as the meat in dishes is always too boney e.g. chicken dishes just chopped in to chunks. I love Chinese food but not authentic Chinese food-although there were several dishes I had that were great. Good luck to you.

[eamo]

To be honest, as 'cool' as it's supposed to be to be into 'authentic' Chinese food, I would prefer to eat American Chinese food or even British Hong Kong-style Chinese.

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[samd]

I think opening a chong qing huo guo restaurant is Korea is a great idea.

I have been looking for one for ages.

These places are huge all over China, and I think they are perfect for Korea. Koreans would love the spiciness, and Chinese immigrants would love a genuine Chinese restaurant.

It's like mae eun sya beu sya beu except ten times better.

I for one would be a regular customer.

Cangel, I don't know where you went in China, but I have also been there several times and would have to say that most Chinese food that I ate was not oily at all. They have several different regional cuisines, eg. sichuan, cantonese, each containing a wide variety of dishes.

Perhaps you ate in the wrong places.

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[postfundie]

I went to china...gotta say the food back home was better (mostly due to the oily factor...good stuff though)...anybody where can I find good chinese food like back home around Seoul (around Hongdae or then center of Seoul..with no hint of the bastardized korean retarded offspring they call chinese food here)

[samd]