What's your tasty but secret dish from the Chinese? Can't face another chicken ball.

[HillaryWhitney]

Or chow mein. Am at the parents' tonight for a takeaway. They don't like change

Salt and Chilli squid
Crispy duck
Grilled pork dumplings
Special fried rice
Singapore noodles

Beef with green peppers in black bean sauce, fried rice, salt & chilli chips. Mmmmmmmmm.

My Chinese does chicken Satay skewers I also like a pancake roll. Crispy pork with cashewnuts in yellow bean sauce. Yung Chow fried rice.

Dou mui. I am now dreaming of tender pea shoots steeped in garlic. Absolutely delicious. I am lucky to live on the west coast of Canada where we have an enormous number of immigrants and visitors from Southeast Asia. We also have a climate where greenhouse growing of things like peppers and tomatoes is economic. I am not sure, but I think pea shoots are grown that way in winter. We can get them but they are very expensive. We never have them except in season.

And now not at all because of Covid.

Another yummy thing is Ginger Beef. Very bad for you I am sure. Sweet and sour beef that is deep fried with a tangy sticky sauce. So good. It was, legend says, invented in Calgary, Alberta to suit Canadian palates. Works for me (in extreme moderation). It is sometimes listed as Calgary Ginger Beef on menus.

Salt and pepper tofu.

Couldn't resist. The story of Ginger Beef.

www.acanadianfoodie.com/2014/04/08/crispy-ginger-beef-the-authentic-calgary-recipe/

Just discovered salt and pepper chicken wings at my local chinese takeway - amazing!

Love a Chinese curry!

And the one with mince in lettuce leaf.

Salt and pepper chips.

Accept no substitute.

Still searching for an Old Skool pancake roll.

Spring rolls are not the same. It needs to be huge: the size of a burrito; with a pancakey batter, and made fresh on-site from leftovers. It also needs to spit grease all down your front when you bite into it.

I can't find proper spring rolls anywhere, just the silly little ones.

From my local takeaway:

• salt and pepper chicken wings or tofu
• Singapore fried vermicelli
• Beancurd with black bean sauce and green peppers

@Rae36

Salt and chilli chips. My absolute favourite. Have tried to recreate them myself at home but never got it right. I think it's the lashings of msg I probably missing

You can buy Aromat seasoning which has got a tonne of MSG in it and seriously improves nearly all food!

My favourite is king prawn with ginger and pineapple. I had Tom Yum soup the other day which was really good too.

We had a rather large Chinese on Monday between 4 of us and had:

Salt and pepper chicken
Salt and pepper chips
Curry sauce (a must have!)
Squid in chilli sauce (ordered accidentally, I was a bit meh but DH practically licked the box so wasn’t wasted!)
Sweet and sour chicken and pork balls
House special fried rice x 2
Egg fried rice
Singapore fried rice
Prawn roast
Prawn crackers

Was fab 😋😋

Oh and crispy chilli beef

Crispy shredded beef, chicken in yellow bean sauce, 1/4 crispy duck = heaven

Char siu pork.

The proper sweet and sour chicken, not the one with chicken balls in batter, it's much crispier and tastes much better.

Mixed starter or mixed dim sum.

Shouldn't have read this thread...really want Chinese now! Our faves:
Beef in mushroom with oyster sauce
Crispy shredded chilli beef
Salt and pepper ribs
Crispy Seaweed
I'm also very partial to a good chicken satay skewer but sadly find them a bit hit and miss!

Chicken satay skewers, from the Starters menu, but all to myself
Lovely chicken breast (on skewers) with a peanutty-sweet chilli type sauce. Plus seaweed (which I think is probably shredded, deep fried cabbage?) just so crunchy, sweet and savoury.

The seaweed is cabbage, fried and MSG added

Chilli salt squid and some kind of noodles.

Crispy chilli beef, Singapore noodles, Szechuan king prawns, salt and chilli squid or chicken.

Kung pao chicken, sweet and sour prawns Hong Kong style, chicken satay main.

I want a Chinese now. Thanks for that