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Title: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: FLOOB on July 22, 2014, 06:01:27 PM
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Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: MrGeezer on July 22, 2014, 06:03:52 PM
Nice to have some pandapee cups in the background to wash it down with.
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: ghi on July 22, 2014, 06:30:07 PM
buhahha ROX;  :lol :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: AAJagerX on July 22, 2014, 07:40:28 PM
My mom lives just outside of Shanghai...  Some of the pics she's sent me of the "food" there are fairly disturbing.   :uhoh
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: HPriller on July 22, 2014, 07:46:06 PM
The saying goes that the 'Chinese will eat anything with 4 legs, except the table'.  I could get behind that philosophy.  If it tastes good and isn't toxic/poisonous, why not.

However, every single person I know who has been to China always comes back saying the food is disgusting there, not because the ingredients are exotic, but because they are low quality, not fresh, or otherwise distasteful.  It's like a fat camp for some of my business traveler friends who've gone there for a month or two.  They come home 10-15lbs lighter.
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: guncrasher on July 22, 2014, 10:15:42 PM
Every time my friend goes to where he's from,  he brings me grasshoppers fried in garlic and Chili.   tasty.


semp
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: Brooke on July 22, 2014, 10:59:41 PM
A coworker of mine went on a business trip to China.  Coming back, he didn't feel well, and he got a lot more ill after a few days and went to the doctor for treatment of food poisoning.  I asked him where he ate before his trip back and he told me that he ate meatballs at a Chinese 7-11.  I was amazed and asked him if he was suicidal.
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: guncrasher on July 22, 2014, 11:22:22 PM
there's a restaurant in santa monica called typhoon.  I had ants, scorpions and thai beetles.  the ants and beetles were really good.  the scorpions tasted like paper, but the shrimp bread they were on was tasty.

had rattle snake and rabbit sausage at another place.  wild boar hamburgers are pretty good, love them at fudruckers.  years ago I had some chicken feet marinated in some kind of bbq sauce at a Chinese restaurant, they were awesome.

I am not really a fan of buffalo or gators, I think they're overrated.  still thinking of making a trip next year to the south for the armadillo.  that and some good southern food.  I miss that.


semp

Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: zack1234 on July 23, 2014, 01:34:41 AM
 :)

People who eat Sushi are daft as well, eating raw meat is not good for you :)

Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: Volron on July 23, 2014, 01:48:29 AM
In China, Cat is what Chicken is to the US. :noid
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: FLOOB on July 23, 2014, 04:25:01 AM
The saying goes that the 'Chinese will eat anything with 4 legs, except the table'.  I could get behind that philosophy.  If it tastes good and isn't toxic/poisonous, why
Me too, it's the eating of things with more than, or less than 4 legs that is wack.
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: guncrasher on July 23, 2014, 08:12:16 AM
Me too, it's the eating of things with more than, or less than 4 legs that is wack.

so you don't eat shrimp,  lobster crab. legs...

semp

Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: nrshida on July 23, 2014, 09:13:54 AM
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Do you have the recipe?

Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: BuckShot on July 23, 2014, 12:22:10 PM
Do you have the recipe?



Sure! Right here in three easy steps;

1. Go into woods
2. Flip over rotten log.
3. Eat the bugs
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: Skyguns MKII on July 23, 2014, 12:28:27 PM
first thing thought that came to me after seeing that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBbBfrKsVqY
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: Volron on July 23, 2014, 12:33:10 PM
Ya know, they have a food problem right?  They also have a population problem as well.  I think it's a self solving solution really... :noid
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: FLOOB on July 23, 2014, 01:38:10 PM
so you don't eat shrimp,  lobster crab. legs...

semp


No. I don't eat bugs.

Lunch at Semp's place.
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Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: nrshida on July 23, 2014, 01:40:14 PM
No. I don't eat bugs.

You do if you eat any kind of dried products  :lol

Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: zack1234 on July 23, 2014, 04:17:37 PM
In China, Cat is what Chicken is to the US. :noid

Cats dont lay eggs?
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: guncrasher on July 23, 2014, 07:00:08 PM
Cats dont lay eggs?

and yet they have 2.


semp
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: ridley1 on July 24, 2014, 06:19:13 PM
I used to work at a chinese restaurant.  The dinners for the staff were usually (for this white guy) an interesting adventure. I've had really. really wicked meals; sea bass, shark's fin soup, horse meat with chinese turnip, some stuff that I couldn't identify. but, man! It was tasty!

One thing that I could never stomach was called "bitter melon"
 Picture in your mind a green pepper.  Now picture it with warts.  Now think about what that would taste like after being soaked for 5 days in battery acid.
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: mbailey on July 24, 2014, 07:30:16 PM
No. I don't eat bugs.

Lunch at Semp's place.
(http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02mexico/logs/oct13/media/trapcatch_450.jpg)

Mantis prawns and spider crab?

I spent a 8 days in Beijing loved the food. Not sure what some of it was but I trusted my co- workers to order most of the time and they usually hit it out of the park....that is until one of them ordered for me a seafood dish that to this day I still taste when I burp ( either that or it's the taste of my stomach lining) it turned out it was sea slugs and stinky tofu. It was like eating raquet balls dipped in pre digested blue cheese . Wiped me out for a whole day.
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: Gman on July 24, 2014, 07:41:00 PM
I lived in Hong Kong for 7 months in 1996 prior to China taking control back from the British.  I worked for Magnum Films, the owner Danny Lee (Hard Boiled and the Killer with Chow Yun-Fat who has been in numerous Hollywood films) was a friend of my family and business, and I did stunt shooting and co ordinating as well as helped try and get a shooting program for the Boy Scouts going prior to China taking control, as Danny Lee was one of the Scout leaders of Hong Kong at the time.

Anyhow, they had tried to expose me to real "Chinese" food in Vancouver at a few non gui-lo restaurants there, as I was used to the whole American/Canadian Chinese food of ginger beef, sweet and sour pork, and shrimp fried rice.  Heh.  Most of the people in Hong Kong or Shanghai on the mainland where I did some work wouldn't have recognized any of that food as "Chinese" food whatsoever.  Well, the "real" Chinese food in Vancouver was bad enough - bean soup for dessert...wtf!? are you serious? - but once in HK and China, it was a whole new level of awful.

After that experience, I decided that dim-sum in North America is actually in insider joke with the Chinese, just to see what stupid crap like fried chicken feet and blood jello cubes that they can get us gui lo to in fact eat, as they laugh in the back watching on video cameras.  I'm certain of it.
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: FLOOB on July 24, 2014, 07:50:56 PM
Ever see the China episode of Idiot Abroad?
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: Meatwad on July 24, 2014, 08:07:40 PM
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Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: guncrasher on July 24, 2014, 08:56:04 PM
No. I don't eat bugs.

Lunch at Semp's place.
(http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02mexico/logs/oct13/media/trapcatch_450.jpg)

I wish.  where I live the "weird" food is basically chicken hearts and gizzards, piggs feet or rabbit.  if I want anything else I must travel 40 or 50 miles to LA.


semp
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: MiloMorai on July 25, 2014, 05:17:13 AM
Bugs and such are very good sources for protein.
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: GScholz on July 25, 2014, 11:01:34 AM
Let's all enjoy Chinese food...

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And if there's a fire in the kitchen remember to use the hand grenade...

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Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: mbailey on July 25, 2014, 05:45:13 PM
Had an ex girlfriend that ate that soup all the time
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: Volron on July 25, 2014, 06:50:29 PM
Let's all enjoy Chinese food...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26232318/funny-chinese-sign-translation-fails-32.jpg)

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(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26232318/funny-chinese-sign-translation-fails-15.jpg)


And if there's a fire in the kitchen remember to use the hand grenade...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26232318/funny-chinese-sign-translation-fails-26.jpg)

 :rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: bustr on July 25, 2014, 07:43:28 PM
My brother in law worked for 7-Eleven USA out of Dallas. He was part of the sales force attempting to bring the franchise to mainland China. His strangest observation about traveling to cities in the mainland. No birds, cats, dogs or any small animals for miles.
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: guncrasher on July 25, 2014, 08:43:56 PM
You guys talk about weird foods in other country but then you eat biscuits and gravy or macaroni and cheese.  and I am not even gonna discuss grits.

that's fricking disgusting.

whenever I go to the cafeteria and somebody asks me to bring biscuits and gravy, I always tell them that it will come back with the "special sauce".  mac and cheese, I cant stand the smell, so I wont even bring it for anybody.

and dont even get me started on having a steak that costs 9 bucks a lb and you drown it with A-1 sauce or any kind of bbq sauce.  I can get spoiled meat drown it in A-1 sauce or bbq sauce and you wont even be able to tell the difference.  you nasty people.


semp
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: FLOOB on July 25, 2014, 11:12:48 PM
So basically semp prefers eating arthropods rather than food.
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: guncrasher on July 26, 2014, 12:59:41 AM
So basically semp prefers eating arthropods rather than food.

food is in the eye of the beholder


semp
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: guncrasher on July 26, 2014, 06:10:30 PM
btw this is my lunch today :).  or should I say breakfast, lunch and dinner since I skipped breakfast and lunch 'till this delicious dish is done  :x :x :x :x.

this is how it started.

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and this is waiting in the fridge to get ready  :x :x :x.

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most people remove the nails, but I am too lazy.  I just pull them off right before I eat them, it's easier :).



semp
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: guncrasher on July 26, 2014, 06:12:06 PM
tomorrow, I got some nice chicken gizzards and hearts.  cant wait for that either  :rock.

semp
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: JimmyC on July 26, 2014, 08:00:48 PM
Righteous  :aok
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: cpxxx on July 28, 2014, 09:54:38 AM
It's not just China all over Asia they eat exotic foods. I went to Vietnam and Cambodia on my honeymoon. The food in Vietnam was really nice but in Cambodia they were selling all sorts of bugs. Fried grasshoppers being very common. Our guide told us they were delicious and were like popcorn in that once you started eating them you couldn't stop. We took his word for it. In any case he lived in the jungle during the Khmer Rouge days and got used to eating anything he could lay his hands on!
Title: Re: Authentic Chinese food.
Post by: JimmyC on July 28, 2014, 10:47:46 PM
I cant believe you did not try them...
You might have surprised yourself