Funny as Crispy skin duck with wrap (aka Peking Duck ) is predominantly err from China.....
ha true - but it's an exception. Apart from crispy duck I'd choose other Asian cuisines over Chinese cuisine
However being brought up with dodgy Chinese restaurants serving sweet sticky day glow sweet and sour etc... may have tarnished my Chinese food view
Crispy duck was the only thing i liked as a kid when my parents used to get their Chinese take always
I apologise for day-glow SS sauce - it is indeed the scrouge of international chinese food, but in reality its the western version of the cantonese menu and its not always done right anyway. Each to their own, they are after all - your tastebuds.
very true, my husband loves day glow SS source
I do like Chinese food i would just choose Malay, Thai etc... before hand these days.
hahahahaha day-glow..
Sweet and sour pork, when done right (easy on the flour and vinegar, fry the pork in the flour fresh rather than leave it overnight in the sauce - hence soggy), is one of the best dishes ever. I had it in this restaurant (a hole in the wall in Wanchai, Hong Kong costing me 8 CHF per plate) and looked something like that. It was crispy, perfect balance of sweet/sour..nom nom nom...
Giving cooking advice for a girl who claims she can't cook
I am coming over to yours for proper sweet and sour pork then
I cant cook that well but I have gourmet tastebuds
Its nearing lunch time so Im sweating this . Yeah any 1/2 decent grub from HK is going to be a party in your mouth, I loved eating there. When I was there for 1.5 years I left 8kg heavier! Crazy....
Recently I re-discovered the joy of SS fish , preferrably fresh fillets that melt in your mouth. I love SS pork, its the classic that put the seemingly opposing words sweet and sour on the map/menu, but I'm signing up SS Fish for a whole new generation to enjoy
my husbands favourite dish is sweet and sour pork hong kong style from his local village chippy
says it all really! he raved about this for so long I eventually tried it and i nearly gagged
I would love to experience proper authentic chinese and not the crap they serve up in many places in the UK
Me too! I love duck and pancakes but don't really like Chinese food at all. As far as Asian goes, I really miss Korean food (in London Ran kicks it!) and Vietnamese food, especially summer rolls. You really need to specialise. You could open a small, casual place that just serves summer rolls, everyone sitting together on long trestles. You could even target kids, what a cool birthday party - everyone rolling their own
Sichuan cuisine is amazing and starting to make in-roads in the west. I was in Sichuan for a few weeks and I ate the spicy-beef-noodles dish everyday. I found a boutique chop-chop style eatery in London last year that served the same - it was a revelation. About 12CHF a bowl, compared with 1.5CHF in China but heh its only money.
Dont get me started on Shanghai style dumplings......
My favourite Asian cuisine is Japanese hands down. A close second will be nonya (Peranakan) food. Unfortunately, I've not had good Peranakan food outside Singapore and Malaysia unless prepared by Peranakans themselves.
Mr Teoh at Teoh's restaurant in Zurich makes pretty decent Peranakan though, but you'll have to have a big enough party as its made to order. Slurrrrps.
well me, you, our other halves, get some more together and we should do it seeing as you didn't pick up the tips from your childhood
Here's a general introduction for those of you who are not familiar with the Peranakan cuisine and history .
There are a couple of easy recipes on there to try out like the Malaysian Popiah (Peranakan version of springrolls!) and the Sambal sotong - ingredients easily obtainable in the Asian supermarkets here in Switzerland (brown sugar needed!)
Sorry to have hijacked. The talk of food is just too exciting!
But I can start, right? ;) I was living in Stuttgart and nearby a new Chinese place opened. Standard Imbiss, which served pork escalope sliced up, on rice, and generic ginger and garlic sauce poured on top. That kind of thing. Usual cheap crap.
I wanted to try it as it was new and very close to where I lived. And I got ... crap. Oh well. Waitress started to chat with me as I was on my own. I don't speak German and she didn't speak English. I can get by in Mandarin and tried that. It worked. After a few minutes of shock she said her family was from Shanghai. Oh cool I said - I'm just back from there. Don't suppose you can make those soup-filled dumplings? (小笼汤包).
In the end I invited 16 people (from the German equivalent of this website) and her and her poor Mum had to make around 130 of the dumplings. She said it took two days ;)
So I need to find some poor waitress in Basel to similarly "abuse".
Edit to add: Raaabert - next time you're there try Lao Chendu 老成都 on Leigh Street WC1
Edit again (don't want to see "successvie posts merged ..."!) to add: Summerrain, is the food in Bengawan Solo Peranakan? In fact, does that chain still exist?
You should cos saying 'chinese food' is like saying 'western food'. There are so many different types from all the different regions of China and the dishes are very different. A lot of 'Chinese food' from generic Chinese restaurants have been hugely modified to suit their respective markets...well, they do want to make money!!
Since we moved away from China, we very rarely eat from a Chinese restaurant anymore.
If only there was somewhere like that, or Snazz Sichuan , in Zürich. We have Beyond here, but it doesn't really cut the mustard.
Im there in a fortnight so will try to rustle over to Lao Chendu for a taste - better be good dumpling boy... ha. Reminds me of the time I was in Jiuquan (deep deep) China and ordered a plate of dumplings in my dodgiest Mandarin. She came back with a huge plate of about 80! Pretty obvious that even if my g/f had of had more then 3, we werent going to eat them all! FIrst time I have ever been defeated by a plate of dumplings grrrr
Bengawan Solo still exists and they do most peranakan kuehs (desserts). As with chains, processed and hardly authentic. If you want good kuehs, the Katong area in Singapore (or my mother's kitchen) is the place to find them.
Didn't know about that one Gastro Gnome! Very similar menu to Lao Chengdu near where I live, but with more choices. Not sure why, but I'm addicted to the "shui zhu rou/yu" dishes - probably because I just feel it's cool to eat something so weird. Your restaurant recommedation has a few different ones whereas mine only has beef.
There's no real limit on bringing cooked food back into Switzerland is there? I brought crispy pork and roast duck back last time;this time I might bring from one of the above places.