.. to want to share my Chinese 'fakeaway' tip with y'all

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DS bought me a very badly produced recipe book published by a TikTok chef. The guy's family own a Chinese takeaway and the book details how to reproduce your typical takeaway dishes.

I'm always doing stir fries at home, and they're never quite right. However, I've now found out how to recreate noodles with the elusive Chinese takeaway taste at home. Basically you have to USE MSG, and specifically you have to BROWN OFF THE MSG in the hot oil before adding your noodles. Makes all the difference and I'm going to save bucks.

You're welcome.

I'm sure the sheer quantity of Chinese food people eat in one sitting play a part, too!

MSG in itself is not a UPF. Adding a small amount to healthy, homemade food doesn’t suddenly turn it into junk. That would be ridiculous.

Thought everyone knew this? Not good for you though I rather without

That’s probably a xantham gum, cornstarch or rice flour thickener in the sauce. MSG looks and acts similarly to table salt: if you add it, it would typically be as a small pinch similar to adding table salt. It doesn’t have thickening properties.

@Fringle thanks for signposting that you made a “joke”. Let me know next time you attempt it.

Its a joke.

Rooted in racism, what on earth are you talking about. Lots of people try to avoid UPFs, not unusual and not rooted in anything.

Is it Ziangs? They have a really good YouTube and book

This was years ago, nothing to do with people avoiding UPFs, it goes back to the whole chinese restaurant syndrome

Happy to. I’ll put “JOKE BELOW” above it. Then even you might spot it. At least I hope so.

google it, it’s got nothing to do with UPFs.

Yes, as if chinese cuisine didn't taste good before the invention of MSG! MSG makes me feel ultra thirsty so I avoid it. I think it is a lazy cook's shortcut.

Just FYI Fringle, I thought it was funny (and obviously a joke - you mentioned enzymes, esters and alkaline ffs!!)

I've voted YABU for using the word "y'all"

I can’t use it because it makes me sneeze obsessively. I can’t eat Chinese takeaway for this reason. It’s in a lot of other things too, which I have to avoid, so I always cook from scratch. I’ve just got used to it, from well before healthy eating was a thing. I don’t have any other allergies as such.

I have absolutely no issue with the use of msg and absolutely love chinease food. I am diabetic and takeaway or restaurant chinease food absolutely plays havoc with my blood sugars, however, the equivalent homecooked does not. Also, a relative who is a bit of a foodie likes experimenting and gave me a soup which unexpectedly shot my sugar levels sky high. He'd used msg in it, so now chinease is a rare treat as my diabetes doesn't like it!

It was very obviously a joke

Or mushrooms, or grapes, or some types of cheese, or most meat.

Thank you. I thought it was entirely obvious too. But there you go.

It's pretty obviously a joke.

Ohhh, what’s the name of the book please?

MSG brings me out in a rash. It only took me 30 years to realise.

My daughter is sensitive to it. She phoned me up panicking about some weird symptoms she was having. I found out her Asian boyfriend had been cooking for her and used MSG. When we googled MSG sensitivity the symptoms were textbook. She'd never heard of it before. They stopped using the MSG and her symptoms went away.

you can buy it from Ocado

You need to use the right noodles too.......lucky boat are the ones takeaways use. Farmfoods have them sometimes