best place indeed the only way to get anything better, is to go back to asia
I've been there before too...damn good little dragon buns!
And back to the thread...those say bak gwuys are backstabbers! Half the f'n dishes on the menus of Chinese restaurants are made for them! And now they're saying it's bad for you! You know what? /gesture
And it's not just Chinese restaurants that are bad for you. Generally speaking, restaurants don't cook dishes for your health unless that's their main focus. They cook to please the masses. And what pleases the masses more than food that tastes good? And, in general, what makes food taste good? FATTY ASS SHIT! well, not "shit," but food...msg, salt, fat, fried stuff...all that stuff tastes good and Chinese restaurants aren't the only ones to use it. Look at French food for instance...have you ever had a "healthy" French dinner at a restaurant before? I mean, even Japanese restaurants (which I think are one of the healther restaurants to go eat at) have fried stuff, high cholestorol stuff, and high fat things. It really depends on what you order sometimes and, in the end, how many times you eat out at restaurants over the course of a week. Then you have to take into consideration the amount of exercise the average American does in a week...but that's a whole different topic.
best part about the food in china is its freshness. There are alot of places that will kill "x" animal to order (just be careful what you put in the x...places i've been to had cats behind cages). You order chicken, they go out back, smack one upside the head and cook it up for you. this is especially true of the sea food.
After going to China for a week, I've come to realize just how different real Chinese food is from what is served here in California. It was like apples and oran... no make that apples and ginger. The only thing I recognized was white rice. Everything else was totally new (I didn't even realize it was spinach I was eating at one point... it was prepared so differently).
As to the article concerning health, my reaction was: "no duh." Here in cali Chinese food is usually full of oil, sugar, and oil.
I dunno, I ate at a restaurant in Beijing and the Peking duck and shrimp with mayo and other I had were very similar to what I've had here. Something I hadn't had before was duck tongue, but when in Beijing, do as.. well. anyhoo. In Hangjou I had the opportunity to try black chicken soup, but to me, it tasted like... .chicken. The difference might be that I didn't get a chance to try the more pedestrian food. That stuff is probably quite different.
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After going to China for a week, I've come to realize just how different real Chinese food is from what is served here in California. It was like apples and oran... no make that apples and ginger. The only thing I recognized was white rice. Everything else was totally new (I didn't even realize it was spinach I was eating at one point... it was prepared so differently).
As to the article concerning health, my reaction was: "no duh." Here in cali Chinese food is usually full of oil, sugar, and oil.
I dunno, I ate at a restaurant in Beijing and the Peking duck and shrimp with mayo and other I had were very similar to what I've had here. Something I hadn't had before was duck tongue, but when in Beijing, do as.. well. anyhoo. In Hangjou I had the opportunity to try black chicken soup, but to me, it tasted like... .chicken. The difference might be that I didn't get a chance to try the more pedestrian food. That stuff is probably quite different.
I didn't go to Beijing, Shanghai, nor Hong Kong... I am told those are very international cities and foreigners would feel quite at home, so that may explain why the food is familiar. However, I went to Chengdu, Emei Mountain, and Jiou Zhai Gou. I'd only met 1 guy that had ever set foot outside of China (not fair I guess, since only about 15 or so people, including hotel staff, spoke English... so can't say I had a representative population). Shmoo's mom takes me to see her parents in Rowland Heights and there I have seen food like that in China... but that food is quite different from Chinese restaurants elsewhere in California.
