What's your favourite Chinese takeaway dish?

Nitefly

richardhomer said:

Calling Phil!



Did you find a chink in his armour?

Emp_Fab

I love Chinese food but I'm really struggling to find a decent one round my way.  I'm pretty picky though.  The nearest is alright but everything has too much oil in it, so it's all pretty greasy.  The next nearest does certain dishes well, but other are shite.  For some bizarre reason any meat dish with a sauce is rammed full of meat and hardly any sauce.  They also use waaaaaay too much vinegar in any sweet &a sour based sauces.

The next nearest we've boycotted - it used to be our regular but their chips were very hit and miss (I'm not a chip fan but Mrs Fab is) and she asked to try one chip before deciding whether to order them or go for noodles.  They kicked up an almighty fuss in front of the other customers, despite the fact that we were in there twice a week at least, so fuck them.

Next nearest is too greasy again.  Next one is run by Romanians and is very nice but anything sweet is bonkers sweet... like Can of syrup sweet.

Sorry... what was the thread about? ....oh yes... favourite dishes...

Singapore vermicelli noodles, chicken in chilli black bean sauce, chicken fried rice, Kung po king prawn (nobody near me does a remotely decent version sadly), Singapore chow mien, chicken & mushroom curry extra hot, crispy beef, but my all time fave is salt & pepper/chilli crispy chicken.

Drew_TNBD

Nitefly said:

richardhomer said:

Calling Phil!



Did you find a chink in his armour?

Oh come the piss on you old fogey... you can do better than that!

Dominic

I used to live in Hong Kong and I miss the food enormously.....
there is nowhere to get Chinese food that is anything remotely like PROPER Chinese food outside Soho and even then a lot of it is nothing like the real thing.
There is actually no such thing as Chow Mein -it's an American made up westernised thing like Chicken Masala is to Indian food.
Oh,except at the big Chinese supermarket Wing Yip in Cricklewood/Neasden
 Ducks webs and Sea Slug
Wind Dried Duck
Abalone and Gai Lan in Oyster Sauce
Tripe in Garlic and Black Bean
 Chicken Gizzard in Soy and Sea spice 
 .......That's more typical Cantonese
Northern Chinese food ,HAN and Hunanese is totally different ...they never see rice that far North it's all Winter Buckwheat Noodles in broth or Hot pots of Pigs Trotters and Sausage.
Szechuan food is hotter than most Thai with lots of sauces made from Nuts.
Some very good Vietnamese restaurants in London now though - authentic bowls of PHO

57Deluxe

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Iamnobody

Drew_TNBD said:

Nitefly said:

richardhomer said:

Calling Phil!



Did you find a chink in his armour?

Oh come the piss on you old fogey... you can do better than that!

Yeah. We need a new slant on the Phil jokes...

mudslide73

I've started stopping at the chippy instead cos they're all crap round here. I used love loads of stuff but it all feels like too much effort for what you get.

WezV

There is one less than 50m from my house.  It's okay.

i really wish it was either great or total shit.  Might force me to make a decision either way.  

There is another a mile away that's pretty good but we tend to stick to the close one because we can pick up within 10 minutes

Jalapeno

My local Chinese takeaway has changed owners - it's now run by the curry house next door, it's very disconcerting (and the food quality has nosedived) 

From one slightly further away ... I usually go for Singapore Noodles or Chicken Chow Mein, with something Kung Po (prawns usually).

Local Chinese restaurant has closed recently too

Emp_Fab

Don't forget to look up your usual on the hygiene standards website...  You may find you no longer want it to be your usual !    http://ratings.food.gov.uk/

ToneControl

duck in black bean sauce and salt and pepper squid
not been able to have it for 7 years now, since almost all Chinese food contains gluten (since soy sauce is 25% wheat)

Philly_Q

Crispy duck, with the pancakes and all the trimmings, and crispy chilli beef.

I don't eat rice or noodles any more, and I'm sure there's a fair bit of sugar in the duck and crispy beef, but I pretend it's not there.  I only have it once or twice a year anyway.

RandallFlagg

Emp_Fab said:

Don't forget to look up your usual on the hygiene standards website...  You may find you no longer want it to be your usual !    http://ratings.food.gov.uk/

Not seen that before, just looked up my town and there are some shockers on there, a local pub where all the local posh people (golfing set) go for their Sunday lunches is dreadful! They'll all be spewing in their Range Rovers on the way home.

Drew_TNBD

RandallFlagg said:

They'll all be spewing in their Range Rovers on the way home.

Ahhhh... that explains the incident the other night!

Sesh

Beef chow mein from Lee Ho Fuk's.

Singapore rice noodles, quick fried chicken in salt and pepper dips, in the real world.

RandallFlagg

Sesh said:

Beef chow mein from Lee Ho Fuk's.

Singapore rice noodles, quick fried chicken in salt and pepper dips, in the real world.

I see what you did there "aaa-ooo"

DiscoStu

Chicken Maryland.

ourmaninthenorth

Egg and Chips. 

starwarsnosebleed

Most of the Chinese takeaways here are almost inedible shite, but maybe sezchuan chicken or babi pang pang.

Snap

Most of the chinese takeaway I've had has too much salt and sugar in it, prefer to cook at home where I know what;s in it.

Had some good street food though in various nutty places, looks like you will get the shits, but usually the tastiest stuff.

Saw one place cooking what I thought were beetroots, they were all hanging on hooks at the stall, appealed to the vegetarian I am. Until I realised that actually theu weren;t beetroots at all, no, they were bollocks