Favorite Chinese Meal

I love squid but only if its fried. If it's over cooked it can be chewy. To me fried squid (calamari) tastes like fried clams. I love to dip the calamari in horseradish sauce. Yummy!!!! And a cold beer to wash it down.

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“	Originally Posted By: Jade_Dragon_03 Has anyone tried wun hung lo OR cream of sum yung gai? If your a guy I hope you haven't tried either of those two dishes. They're made just for women to eat.	”

You so funny... ha ... ha ... ehm....

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“	Originally Posted By: clfsean You so funny... ha ... ha ... ehm....	”

Oh....you know it was funny.

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“	I've always been iffy about squid, how's it taste?	”

Chewy!

If made right, only a little bit chewy. It helps to go to a restaurant that makes the more unusual seafood -- squid, octopus, mussels, etc. if you've never had these before, so you know how it should taste.

Squid also has different textures for different parts -- the smooth body part is fairly chewy while the tentacles are not so much, and when fried right they're nice and crunchy.

I also like the fried spicy baby octopi at dim sum, you pop the whole octopus in your mouth. There's also deep-fried eel spawn, which kinda look like french fries, though it took me awhile to get past the little tiny beady eyes.

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“	Originally Posted By: Jade_Dragon_03 Oh....you know it was funny.	”

Actually not really... kinda juvenile & grammer schoolish in word play... not to mention possibly ****ty in nature to any ethnic Chinese that may read it.

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“	Originally Posted By: Sammygirl I also like the fried spicy baby octopi at dim sum, you pop the whole octopus in your mouth. There's also deep-fried eel spawn, which kinda look like french fries, though it took me awhile to get past the little tiny beady eyes.	”

Now I like the smoked eel sushi. Smoked eel is dee-lish.

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squid = bait

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“	Originally Posted By: aqira squid = bait	”

Ditto... but not bad for a snack if fishing doesn't pay off with a light beer batter deep fried with marinara for dipping

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Braised noodles in oyster sauce.

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Yon ro pou mo

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Wolfgang says:

I could think of a million better things to do in Japan for a month besides jumping off of picnic tables. - x893

Beef tendon and black bean ong choy.
Honey walnut shrimp.
Salt, pepper, garlic lobster.
Ham ha pork and watercress.

At the Vietnamese end i go for the spicy beef noodle or summer rolls, or both...

...and this is the best way to eat octopus!



Octopus is very tender, if you lomi (massage) it first in a bucket with rock salt and a little water, changing water and adding salt frequently.
Rinse clean when mucus has broken down and make some of that stuff...

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“	Originally Posted By: clfsean Or until you go to China & eat for 2 weeks away from major metro areas & understand how well the Chinese have adopted their food to our taste buds...	”

well...
it goes as far that American "Chinese Food" differs a lot from European "Chinese Food"....

even Dutch "Chinese Food" is different from German "Chinese Food"

I had a local Chinese restaurant owner prepare a special wedding dinner when I got married for us and our parents
it was a "traditional dish" (or so he said )
it was nothing he had on the card, it all looked beautiful and tasted delicious
and really...
I don't care if it was made cats, dogs, snakes and rats
it was yummie as hell....

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“	Originally Posted By: clfsean Actually not really... kinda juvenile & grammer schoolish in word play... not to mention possibly ****ty in nature to any ethnic Chinese that may read it.	”

Get a sense of humor and lighten up is all I can say. You seem so uptight that if you stuck a lump of coal up your a$$ it would probably turn into a diamond. And if there is an ethnic Chinese that took offense then he/she needs to get a sense of humor as well. As for being grammer schoolish in word play.....so what.

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Well i had a good Chinese lunch today. I ate Mongolian Beef with steamed rice and hot n' sour soup. Boy was it good.

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