Sweet and sour Cantonese style, is that the fried one?

[MorrisZapp]

With sauce in a tub on the side? Google no help.

Think you are looking for s&s prawn or pork balls?

It's small pieces of chicken that have been battered and fried with peppers, onions, pineapple etc in a sweet and sour sauce.

Big bits of chicken battered and deep fried with a tub of sauce on the side are sweet and sour chicken balls.

Non battered chicken with peppers , onions, pineapple etc in sweet and sour sauce is generally just called sweet and sour chicken.

The menu offers sweet and sour chicken, or sweet and sour chicken Cantonese style.

I can never remember which one means fried balls with the sauce served separately!

Is Cantonese style not when the chicken is cooked in the sauce? Sweet and sour (not Cantonese style) normally has the chicken balls separate from the sauce

At my local it's fried in sauce. I had prawns and they were kind of butterflied and battered and fried, and then served in the sauce (with peppers, onion etc). It did say ask if you want the sauce on the side, so I presume you could have it either way - maybe ask when ordering so you're not disappointed!

Are you talking about big balls or small bits of chicken?

Round here, the big balls (about ping pong ball sized) served with a tub of sauces on the side are called "Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls". Everything else is served in the sauce and has added veg/pineapple etc.

At the takeaway I use Cantonese style is where the chicken/prawns are in the sauce with the peppers and pineapple. The ordinary sweet and sour is where you get battered chicken pieces and a tub of sauce separately

Cantonese style is the little bits of chicken fried in the sauce the chicken balls is something else we'll that's how it is in our Chinese takeaway.

For reference

Cantonese style is unbattered chicken in the sauce.

Sweet and sour (no mention of Cantonese) is the battered one.

At our Chinese Cantonese style means the chicken is battered and normal is just bare chicken in the sauce. That said, it's a small village and if you ask for spare ribs in sauce (but don't specify Peking, sweet and sour etc), the sauce you receive is... gravy.
(not envy)

Its really easy to make yourself. I know its not a takeaway but in lockdown whilst everyone was petfecting sourdough and banana bread we were learning how to cook this amongst other things

Oh ribs in gravy is delicious! One of my dc used to order chicken balls and a portion of sweet and sour sauce maybe do that so you know what you are getting.

Why are you asking Mumsnet and not the restaurant?!

I’ve just ordered this
It’s chicken in batter in a sweet and sour sauce with carrots, onion, pepper and pineapple

@BarbaraofSeville

Cantonese style is unbattered chicken in the sauce.

Sweet and sour (no mention of Cantonese) is the battered one.

Interesting, our local batters both - the difference (at ours) is ball of batter with some pork/chicken/prawn in and a pot of sauce, or battered chicken with peppers/onions all covered in sauce, like the photo above 😋