crap..too many choices at chinese restaurants
Apr 5, 2006 at 10:19 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 55

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what is the perfect 3 entree combo for a chinese restaurant lunch?
i usually choose
1.general tsao's chicken
2. sweet and sour pork
3. beef with broccoli
with the fried rice option sans egg roll.
but i feel there may be a more perfect combo out there. is there?
yes i am bored...
 
Apr 5, 2006 at 10:28 PM Post #3 of 55
Beef w/ snowpeas
Egg Fu-yong
Pork Fried Rice

(Pathetically American choices, and I'm half chinese. But I still love them)
 
Apr 5, 2006 at 10:30 PM Post #4 of 55
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Originally Posted by chadbang
Beef w/ snowpeas
Egg Fu-yong
Pork Fried Rice

(Pathetically American choices, and I'm half chinese. But I still love them)



dang.....yes..i knew that good would come out of this thread..how could i forget about egg fu young...so tasty
 
Apr 5, 2006 at 10:31 PM Post #5 of 55
3 entrees? Jeez, I usually just have Sweet and Sour or Sesame Chicken, Spring Rolls/Shrimp Rolls, and some Mushu.
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Apr 5, 2006 at 10:53 PM Post #8 of 55
Hmm.. Beef Noodle Soup, Sour and Spicy soup, depends on the restaurant/mood, but I rarely go to a generic Chinese place for lunch so...
 
Apr 5, 2006 at 11:22 PM Post #11 of 55
You guys are totally botching the spelling of many popular menu items.
Although General Tsao's chicken is spelled more ways than Hannukah, you guys are making me hungry (and then I'll be hungry again in 2 hours
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after all these years, i still have no idea what egg foo young is


What is Egg Foo Young, you ask?
It's realy quite simple.
Just follow this simple recipe:
4 tablespoons canola oil
1/4 cup yellow onion, chopped
2 cups shredded cabbage
6 eggs
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup sliced bamboo shoots
1/2 cup cooked small salad shrimp, or large dice medium cooked shrimp
2 tablespoons green onion tops, sliced, for garnish

Place 2 tablespoons vegetable oil in a large pan and cook onions and cabbage over- medium high heat just until tender. Remove from heat, drain excess liquid, and reserve.
Whisk the eggs in a bowl and mix in soy sauce, spices, drained cabbage mixture, and bamboo shoots.

Using a non-stick pan over medium-high heat, add 2 tablespoons vegetable oil and heat. Ladle about 4 ounces of the cabbage mixture into the hot pan, as you would for pancakes, and sprinkle the small shrimp evenly on top of each. Cook for about 3 minutes, or until edges start to brown and when jiggled, it slides in the pan. Flip and cook another 2 to 3 minutes until cooked through. Garnish with scallions

There, it wasn't that hard is it
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Apr 5, 2006 at 11:44 PM Post #12 of 55
what about the brown sauce over the egg foo young? or is it better not to ask what that is made of?
 
Apr 5, 2006 at 11:53 PM Post #13 of 55
I really don't have much love for the dishes already written. They are fine, but there are better.

For lunch along with rice (a given) I like to order fried soft-shell crab, honey and walnut shrimp, and fish + tofu stew (not really stew, I don't know how to say it, I was going to say hotpot but that's wrong). Or alternatively fried shrimp, the fish+tofu stew deal, and roasted chicken with shrimp crackers. This is with a group of 4 though (and I'm not the one who actually does the ordering). Quite good though
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Apr 6, 2006 at 12:06 AM Post #14 of 55
I am must say that sechwan chicken and beef is my preference, however the eggrolls are really the place it is at...such sweet sweet cabagey rolls of Happy Happy.

Nothing is more difficult than a long mysterious menu.
 
Apr 6, 2006 at 12:09 AM Post #15 of 55
Uhh

For lunch at a typical wonton house, either:
Minced Beef w/ rice (sauce style)
Sliced beef w/ fat rice noodles
Yueng Chow fried rice
Minced beef congee
Wonton noodles with a stick of chinese donut
BBQ duck w/ skinny rice noodles in soup

For formal dinner:
Fried Squab
Peking Duck + lettuce wrap
Shark's fin
Crab or lobster
Dau Miu (vegetable) w/ shredded scallops
Some sort of steamed fish
Some sort of cold cut starter plate, with jellyfish, etc

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And of course, dim sum.
 

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