what's the bestt hing to order from a chinese takeaway?

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in your opinion?
i never htink I order right.

for 2? blimey!

we'd normally only have 1/4 duck, or prawn toast then a main course each with rice and prawn crackers

so not everything list each time

Oooh, I'm very habitual about this and always order crispy duck and hoisin sauce and pancakes. Makes my mouth water just typing that!

fried pork dumplings. I can eat them as a meal on their own

crispy duck

singapore noodles

king prawns with green vegetables

American chinese is crap. Completely tasteless and all seems to be a variation on lo mein - just chow mein basically. And egg foo yung - bleaugh.

crispy duck is the food of the gods

so it is olk take awayt heN?
right what is chow mein/ have never hadit

crispy duck is fine as a takeway 9yum yum!). Chow mein is the noodles - I always find it a bit too greasy

Moomina, I have to disagree. Maybe you have been unlucky because there certainly are some crappy Chinese restaraunts around, but that's probably also the case in England isn't it?

What I meant was that Chinese food in America is just a different animal (as it were) than Chinese food in England. I wouldn't say it was any better or worse, it's just different somehow. It has a different flavour that never quite recaptures the Chinese takeaways of my childhood.

I have had some amazing Chinese food in America. Specifically in Chinatown in New York. At a place called (unfortunately) Big Wong, you can get a plate of rice and roast duck or roast pork at lunchtime for $3 and it's delicious.

Besides that I've had fabulous Peking Duck (kind of like crispy duck), razor clams in black bean sauce, snails in black bean sauce, pan fried noodles, dim sum, spicy salt and pepper shrimp and squid, tofu, etc...

The food's not as good at your average suburban takeaway obviously, but if you pick right you can still get some good stuff. Chicken and broccoli is probably the most popular (it's in oyster sauce). Crab rangoon is a totally American invention - it's deep fried dumplings that are stuffed with a mixture of crab and cream cheese. Absolutley terrible for you, but yummy.

ooh, I hate Chinese food on the whole.

dh says order everything he is addicted.

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Oh, Kate! Crab rangoon is rank!

Although, actually, I'm glad you posted that because all evening I've been trying to remember the name of 'the vile crab stuff that sounds as if it's going to be utterly delicious but is actually so horrible it almost made me cry with disappointment.'

But you are right about one thing - Chinese food is better in NYC than in suburban Minneapolis...

sweet and sour pork hong kong style (not the balls in batter - yuk!)

duck pancakes with plum sauce or takeaway jobby...king prawn, chicken and mushroom with rice and prawn crackers.

duck in a sauce - preferably plum or orange and a spring roll.... heaven

We have one near us called Aroma, it's eat all you like for £13.50. It's a huge buffet with everything you can think of. We went last week for DD's 6th birthday (she chose).

As each family came in the restaurant we were all seated together in one corner and told we must be out by 7.20pm. The only problem was that all the families were noticably fat. I mean very fat and it made me really self conscious of what I was eating.

My favourite is satay chicken and chicken in black bean sauce.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

People in the know have only two options: will it be duck with chinese mushrooms, or will it be squid with ginger and spring onion?

lol all of you
had hte ducka and it was hte best thing but not as good as in a restaurant- I find a lot of takeaway meat highly suspicious -looking, althouhg the fake chicken and black bean sauce wth green pepper dh had was nice.

thanks for the enormous anmount of rplies!!
we must be a load of oinkers!

crispy fried shredded beef in sweet chilli sauce - yummy. No wonder i'm fat

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chicken and cashew nuts in yellow bean sauce
plain rice
salt and pepper quid
duck chow mein

Yum