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Yancy Street Gang Jun 20 2006 04:09 PM

You're in your favorite Chinese restaurant for dinner tonight. What are you going to order?

seawolf17 Jun 20 2006 04:14 PM

Same thing we always get: boneless ribs, chicken & broccoli, some sort of fried rice, steamed dumplings, a thing of those little hard noodles, and fortune cookies. It's enough to feed the two of us for three days.

sharpie Jun 20 2006 04:15 PM

Singapore mei fun is common. The kids want sesame chicken. Mrs. Sharpie/Harris usually gets some kind of spicy tofu thingee.

Yancy Street Gang Jun 20 2006 04:17 PM

I'm gonna get sesame chicken, won ton soup, and an egg roll. And maybe an order of fried won tons for the family to share. My wife will probably get the sweet and sour chicken. And she'll order something that consists mostly of chicken and noodles for the kids.

sharpie Jun 20 2006 04:19 PM

I hardly ever go to a Chinese restaurant for dinner unless I'm going to some Chinatown place in which case I'm getting either soup dumplings or some kind of fancy fish dish. Sometimes I have a lunch special at a restaurnat and we get it delivered often.

metirish Jun 20 2006 04:19 PM

Ribs are a must for me, General Tso's Chicken,some sort of beef dish...

ScarletKnight41 Jun 20 2006 04:29 PM

Szechuan bean curd (not spicy) with brown rice. Yum!

Yancy Street Gang Jun 20 2006 04:31 PM

Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen brown rice on a Chinese menu.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 20 2006 04:36 PM

Like sharpie, we hardly ever eat at a Chinese restuarant -- last time was in Flushing, IIRC -- but get frequent deliveries. Most recently I've been getting pork with fried noodles -- greasy but good.

Yancy Street Gang Jun 20 2006 04:42 PM

We usually do takeout, too. I can only think of two "dining in" experiences in Chinese restaurants over the last few years: Last month I was in Philadelphia with my son and we had Chinese for lunch. And two years ago, weary of Italian food, we ate dinner at a small Chinese restaurant in Florence. (The Chinese woman working there didn't know any English, and I didn't know any Chinese, so I ended up ordering in Italian!)

OlerudOwned Jun 20 2006 04:52 PM

I'm either beef & broccoli or shrimp w/ lobster sauce. Usually started off with Wonton Egg Drop Soup.

KC Jun 20 2006 05:15 PM

We're creatures of habit ... Tsingtao and a coke ... Seafood hot & sour soup for two ... Prawns with snow peas for the lady and I'll have prawns and scallops Hunan style - easy on the salt - I almost had a stroke once eating here. An order of shrimp fried rice and can you please put the white rice in our doggie bag? I hate cooking rice, we'll use it for something. Oh, and a hot oil on the side.

ScarletKnight41 Jun 20 2006 05:19 PM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen brown rice on a Chinese menu. It's much more common in New York and the bigger cities, but you can find it in the better suburban Chinese restaurants. It's much tastier than white rice.

sharpie Jun 20 2006 05:31 PM

I must disagree. Brown rice is not tastier than white rice. Better for you, yes. Tastier, no.

TheOldMole Jun 20 2006 05:32 PM

I just ordered it. General Tso's chicken.

KC Jun 20 2006 05:53 PM

Brown rice and whole wheat pasta = yuck

MFS62 Jun 20 2006 06:31 PM

Hard shelled crabs Cantonese for me and prawns and string beans in garlic sauce (mild) for MMYF. And, of course, egg rolls. I gave her the engagement ring over egg rolls- 40 years ago. Later

Frayed Knot Jun 20 2006 07:53 PM

I suspect I probably eat less, and know less about, Chinese food than just about any other New Yorker around. Just not something I did growing up, I rarely have it now, and I couldn't tell you which dish is which and what any of those terms mean.

seawolf17 Jun 20 2006 08:50 PM

Because I'm allergic to nuts, I really avoided Chinese food for most of my life, until we started making it ourselves. We bought a wok and [u:a1f7c52b48]Chinese Cooking For Dummies[/u:a1f7c52b48], stopped by the Chinese grocery store, and everything changed. It's really a lot of fun; and we started ordering out -- as long as I can communicate the allergy to the folks taking my order, then I'm trusting that it's safe. The place by us knows us pretty well by now.

RealityChuck Jun 20 2006 10:22 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 20 2006 10:23 PM

Given the choice, Crab Rangoon, fried wonton, fried dumpling, an egg roll, and some wonton soup. If I wanted an entree, it's probably General Tso's chicken. (General Tso ghost returns to Earth. "I was a mighty general, winning important victories for my emperor and my nation, and all people remember me for is what?")

RealityChuck Jun 20 2006 10:22 PM

[litella]Never mind[/litella]

ScarletKnight41 Jun 20 2006 10:38 PM

KC wrote: Brown rice and whole wheat pasta = yuck A whole different ballgame. Chinese brown rice is fabulous. Whole wheat pasta suxx.

Willets Point Jun 20 2006 10:52 PM

="RealityChuck"] If I wanted an entree, it's probably General Tso's chicken. (General Tso ghost returns to Earth. "I was a mighty general, winning important victories for my emperor and my nation, and all people remember me for is what?") At least General Tso's chicken outranks Colonel Sanders' chicken.

metsmarathon Jun 20 2006 11:24 PM

wonton soup general tso's chicken chicken with broccoli