What do you usually get at chinese restaurants?

[funguy2121]

I'm partial to General Tso's chicken, but I occasionally get sweet and sour chicken or sesame chicken.

God, someone's a little too obsessed with syrupy chicken!

Orange chicken and crab rangoon have always and will always reign supreme. Eggrolls bursting with soy. Black pepper chicken/steak. Coconut shrimp. Calimari.

Stay the fuck away from the sushi bar! It's not a Japanese steakhouse, you round-eyed fool! If you want to taste something bland and possibly gross that will make your GI tract hate you, then try the sushi bar at a Chinese restaurant.

And crab legs and mini hot dogs and soft serve (get the swirl!). Best stuff the Chinese ever came up with

 

[funguy2121]

I love most food of the thai variety, especially red thai curry with coconut milk. Om nom nom.

Ninja'd, except no one said "Thai food." Can't begrudge you for mentioning it. Too bad I moved 2 hours away from Thai Sweet Basil. One of the best damned meals I ever had. Spring rolls to fuckin' die for. And their pad thai is amazing.

 

[Quaidis]

I like getting Dragon/Phoenix chicken combos.

But what I really love, when I can find it, is Singapore Fün. Usually chow fün or mei fün. I ask them to make it as spicy as humanly possible, and only some eateries can do it right. But it's so worth the money.

 

[funguy2121]

usually lemon chicken, beef and black bean noodles or sweet and sour pork, but most defiantly get deep fried ice-cream for dessert

Funny, I thought they only served fried ice cream at Mexican restaurants.

 

[Sun Flash]

I despise Chinese food, yet everyone else seems to love it, which means that's where we go half the time we eat out. So I plump for the plainest, simplest food possible, egg fried rice (if I'm feeling particularly adventurous, I'll upgrade to chicken fried), chips and gravy, prawn crackers or plain noodles

 

[Florion]

From the food truck down the road from class: Beef and Vermicelli soup. (because it's $5 and they give you sooo much)

At actual Chinese restaurants: I can't pass up chicken heart, and I love pork buns. Of course, if I'm at a real Chinese restaurant, I'm with actually Chinese people, and they make me try all sorts of tasty vegetables I can't pronounce or spell (and therefore cannot find again), or really, really, really spicy meats. But really, it's hard to say what *I* got, since traditionally you get a group of friends, order like, five or six giant plates and then you all share.

I like my friends' parents' cooking best though. All of them make interesting tofu dishes.

Edit: The staff at Chinese restaurants in Toronto are usually Chinese. The staff at Korean BBQ places are also usually Chinese. The staff at Japanese places are usually Korean (except Manpuku, which you know is real Japanese because they don't serve sushi). Although I suppose it depends where in the city you are...

 

[Davih]

Chicken curry and chips or rice.

 

[Griff]

Egg fried rice, beef chow mein, Singapore fried noodles and prawn crackers

 

[NLS]

Fried rice.
For 10 years, that was all I would ever order, be it a fine restaurant or a smaller chinese street kitchen. Taking memos to myself about the qualities of each and every different one I tasted.
For half a year I would every thursday go to the local small chinese kitchen somewhere in Berlin, I watched closely as the chef prepared my meal every time.
Half a year later, I decided the time had come, and so I made the PERFECT fried rice.

 

[nukethetuna]

Kung Pao chicken, I love spicy food, you see.

 

[Spoonius]

Food poisoning.

 

[Dutch 924]

Food poisoning.

Bahahaha. Good one

 

[Dutch 924]

I always have to get something with chicken fried rice, usually involving more chicken. That stuff is good

 

[ShindoL Shill]

confused, because i don't by chinese food.

then i go across the street to the indian for a Donner kebab.

 

[EmperorSubcutaneous]

If they have it: vegetarian egg foo young. SO GOOD. If they don't, I get whatever mixed vegetables + tofu thing they have. And lots of steamed rice. And tea.

Unfortunately, all the local Chinese restaurants have is lots of meat and deep fried things. Curse the South.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Pretty much always szechuan chicken.

 

[UrieHusky]

Sweet and sour chicken or combination fried rice, some times both cause I tend to not eat for two days at a time so when I do I eat a fair bit ^_^ but yeah that's my personal preference, I haven't found a good Chinese place in my area yet though it makes me sad T_T

 

[Revenge Revisited]

Chicken fried rice and egg drop soup, everytime o3o

 

[srm79]

Fried rice, chips and gravy. Never had it? You're a tad weird.

Either that or Chicken in Black Bean Sauce or House Special Chow Mein. I absolutely adore noodles in these sauces, they're just delicious.

Swap the gravy for curry sauce and you have the ultimate food of the drunk. At least one good suede jacket of mine has been utterly ruined by attempting to walk and eat this while utterly pissed.

For "proper" chinese food though, I'm partial to anything with duck. Duck chow mien is a particular favourite of mine.

I'm also a seafood fan, so anything with king prawn is good with me.

My girlfriend's favourite is Kung Po Chicken, which I had never tried until I met her. It's fucking awesome.

Finally, I can't order a chinese without Spring Roll. My local chinese does 2 fair sized ones as a portion, although my old local did just a single one but it was fucking HUGE. As a last resort on the last few days before payday when there's fuck all money left but I wanted a chinese, one of these plus a fried rice was an acceptable "poor man's choice".

 

[ZehMadScientist]

Chicken with black bean sauce.

And if I want something else for a change and ask the clerk at the local Chinese what he'd recommend, he'll always answer: "...Take the shrimp.". Amen.