When you have a chinese takaway what do you have??

[shinyshoes]

I fancy something diffrent to the usual that we order.

Between 5 of us we normally get

chicken curry
beef in Blackbean sauce
chicken in breadcrumbs (this is very hit and miss)
shredded chicken chow mein
egg fried rice
Pork balls
chips

I'm looking for inspiration

I have salt and pepper squid, but our takeaway is a bit fancy

We usually get King Pao chicken and sweet % sour chicken balls (for the children) as standard, then add on the optional dishes, such as Hunan beef.

Tofu in black bean sauce is my Chinese choice but I prefer an Indian.

special chow mein
spring rolls
sweet and sour prawn balls with special fr rice

Crispy duck pancakes or chicken & sweetcorn soup to start

Crispy shredded beef
Chicken in black bean sauce
Sweet & sour king prawn balls
Plain rice

(four people)

Crispy shredded beef
Chilli chicken
Special chow mein
Egg fried rice
Spring rolls

I normally get salt and pepper chicken wings, mongolian lamb, BBQ ribs, egg fried rice and thai chow mein.

Thai Tom Yum soup with prawn for me(hot and tangy yummyness)..DH has Chicken & sweetcorn soup...I have roast chicken on noodles with extra veg and chilli..DH has Quarter Duck with pancakes & fried rice..and maybe some spare-ribs..DCs have special fried rice/noodles...sometimes I have a spring-roll depends on which take-away we order from..there are some dodgy spring-rolls out there!!

we have left-overs..

Five people (and I usually snaffle the left overs for lunch - fie on not reheating rice)

Salt and Chilli bean curd
Dry ribs or spring rolls
(if feeling rich) 1/4 shredded duck

Shredded Chilli beef
Lemon Chicken
Chicken with cashew nuts

Sweet & Sour Chicken Balls (for DCs)

Egg fried Rice
Pork Chow Mein

Usually get the Prawn Crackers free

Used to be

King prawn with green pepper in black bean sauce
Chicken with bamboo shoots and water chestnuts in oyster sauce
Chicken with chinese mushrooms
Barbecued spare ribs
Chicken with broccoli and ginger
Char siu
Soo chow crispy stuffed duck
Hsiu mai (pork and prawn dumplings)

'Sob' the nearest decent chinese as opposed to vietnamese is probably Paris - 400km away. Serves me right for emigrating.

Anything Kung Po.

Chicken noodle soup
Singapore noodles
Seaweed
Salt and pepper prawns
Crispy Duck
Sesame prawn toast
Duck with ginger and spring onions
prawns with mushroom
Sweet and sour pork
Chicken satay
ribs
Not all at once, there's only two of us but those are our faves.

sweet and sour chicken balls
beef in tomato
chicken fried rice
chicken chow mein
ribs in ok sauce
seaweed
crispy duck

something usually from that list

I wish I hadn't opened this as now I really, really want some crispy chilli beef and chinese food is just not the same in Belgium!

Nor in France!

Salt and pepper french beans (a-ma-zing)
Seaweed
Crispy chilli beef or chicken with cashew

chicken satay

fried rice

mmmmm....

:( I really want Chinese. Normally have it at least once on the weekend but DH is away and they don't deliver, DD asleep. It's only around the corner. Do you reckon if I phoned and begged them they'd bring it round?

What did you go for btw?

I am the only person in my household to like chinese which is annoying as if I have everything I want it is too much. I always have:-

Special Fried Rice
Special Chow Mein
BBQ Ribs or Sweet and sour chicken balls

Love it. Loopy loops if you have spare cash you can pay a cab to pick it up and drop it to you. DH has done this before!

Hmm not sure about the cab, chinese is literally 2 minutes away, taxi company is about 10 minutes away...

We get prawn toast,
vegetarian mini spring rolls,
Sechuan King Prawns
Chicken Mixed Veg
Fried Rice. Occasionally Peking duck or sweet and sour.I love our current chinese - really nice spring rolls and prawn toast and still hot/crispy when it gets here

I used to have a different favourite takeaway that we used nearly every week at the time. One weekday afternoon a woman knocked on my door and asked me to lend her money. She said 'I know you, you always get XYZ from my takeaway, I need to borrow some money off a friend, can you lend me some?' She strode straight into my house to ask. I was very I though WTF? I'm a customer, not a friend??

It broke my heart as after I let her down gently we couldn't really use that Chinese anymore. They used to do a lovely mixed starter thing