What's your go-to order at a generic (or maybe not generic) Chinese take out spot...

I stopped ordering chinese takeout. For one, it is extremely unhealthy and is literally oil you're tasting. For two, it is pretty expensive to be eating it weekly. If I want a simple meal, I hit up my local asian grocery store which cooks their own entrees and I opt out for the 2 entree with rice combo. I grab the beef curry and sweet pork(limited ass options). I also grab from their pick-your-own deep fried options, an egg roll and a chicken thigh and leg. Costs me $9 for all of that or $7 for just the meal combo. Not bad imo.

Skewered chicken/beef, general tso's shrimp, lo mein, honey chicken, sesame potatoes

>For one, it is extremely unhealthy

>gets 3 meat dishes and a fried eggroll instead

>For one, it is extremely unhealthy

What are you a faggot?

This. Orange beef is usually a safe bet. If I had to choose one thing, however, that I'll get all the time if it's on the menu crab rangoon. Nothing else comes close.

I go to a cafeteria in my local asian grocery. The rice is great and the dishes are confusing. All I know is if I'm getting pork, beef, chicken, or fish. Once I got pig fee by accident.
It's pretty oily, but nothing is battered, fried, and covered in corn syrup sauce.

Are you the same poster? You said you're still eating fried food and stuff with sugar, e.g. "sweet pork". Not that big of a difference. My local Chinese restaurant has plenty of steamed and roasted options that aren't as oily. But I don't really fry food at home often so it's not a big deal for me to eat a greasy meal once in a while.

2 orders pot stickers
2 order of fried spring rolls
1 order of crab rangoon
1 pork eggroll
fried chicken and pork fried rice
can of soda
and some almond cookies

less calories than your typical chnese take out anyways

Four, or possibly eight orders of crab rangoons and maybe a General Tsao. Nothing else is objectively worth your money.

Don't forget your heart burn medication gramps.

Sesame chicken, vegetable chow mein, crab rangoon, egg rolls, and green beans if they know how to do them good.

Am I the only one who enjoys mei fun or Singapore noodles?

I am not 250 lbs like you, that's for sure.

usually a dozen egg rolls, 6 wings, a couple extra bags of crispy noodles, 2 liter of coke, chinese donuts

No, not the same guy

Satay chicken
Egg fried rice

And maybe with a side of:
Chicken balls
Curry sauce, or sweet and sour sauce (for dipping the chicken balls)

And maybe some prawn crackers

C R I S P Y B E E F

Those battered chicken pieces with egg fried rice and the tastey orange liquid. Always forget its name.

last time i ordered singaporean noodles from a place that doesnt specialize in SEA chinese cuisine, it came out really shitty

butterfly shrimp with eggs and bacon in sauce(most places usually dont have that so if they dont i get a general tso shrimp or chicken with xtra chille/spice)

+hot and sour soup or egg drop soup

if im drunk ill get boneless rib-tips as well

most Chinese restaurants r family owned anyway.. the name of the place is usually their surname

u can also order the chow mein: the vegetable medley soup if u want healthier

fried rice baby
house > pork > shrimp > chicken > beef

What are some lesser known items that people are missing out on? Always looking for new options.

general tso's BITCH

Pepper steak
Steamed rice
Spring roll

Slather it all with hot mustard.

I've never had Chinese. There's a local place that looks really nice inside, should I go for it? Beef and broccoli sounds good

get the rangoons

>having a weak stomach that cant handle food
how does it feel to have such weak genes

They do look good too.. Fugg

my local chinese place has katsu chicken on the menu and they pile the shit of it. i usually get that along with either their orange chicken or mushroom chicken.
I always get it with fried rice as well. never noodles. for some reason it seems like they give you less stuff if you order it with noodles or even half rice and half noodles.

beef chow fun, summa dat chinese broccoli, salt and pepper squid, probably a roast chicken or duck

Either orange chicken if I know the place can make it well (like carmelized and slightly hardened sauce) or beijing beef.

I've actually been trying to replicate beijing beef on my own, but it's hard to get the outside like panda makes it for some reason.

Singapore Mei Fun and an order of steamed dumplings with chili oil.

If they can't make it right, it sucks.
There's like 4 or 5 Chinese takeout places in walking distance near me.

Only one spot can do it right.
Noodles are spicy, dumplings made to order.

damn, you must be some kind of retard

Beef and green beans is normally pretty great.

I usually get the chicken with curry sauce because most of the others are too sweet. Even when its supposed to be hot and spicy.

Don't know if it's really lesser known but lemon chicken is pretty good. Maybe try ordering more authentic Chinese dishes.

Simpletons talk about roughage because they have the understanding of subjects like anatomy, analogous to a dog left in a field.

let me guess, your shit comes out in europoor mushlogs

Mongolian beef, 1 order of steamed potstickers, 1 order of pan fried potstickers, and a small order of wonton soup.

God damnit this thread made me crave Chinese. Wish it wasn't so expensive where I live. Might have to snag some tomorrow night for some delicious drunk eating after the bar.

Nearly every time I've ordered Singapore noodles from an unfamiliar place they've either been too wet or, oddly enough, too dry.

I usually go for a black bean sauce dish. Chicken, shrimp, vegetables, doesn't matter. Love that sauce.

I've found all my Chinese take out places are very greasy so I'd rather get a pizza or whatever (even if it's a greasy, it doesn't taste like it).

I've found KFC will give me the shits like nothing else.

I go for the egg rolls and the teriyaki beef on rice noodles and rice, chinese food is my guilty pleasure, i know its fucking shit quality but i love it

The next best thing in mexico is PF Changs or some avant garde restaurant

I have quite a few good chinese places where I live because I live near chinatown, my most common order is probably roast duck in plum sauce and steamed vegetables with special fried rice.. that will last 2-3 nights of dinner for me.

Usually 1/4 roast duck and a couple plates of rice.

heavenly

Honey garlic chicken and chao mein

Salt + Pepper Squid, Beef Satays, & Chicken + Cashews. Half for dinner and the rest for lunch the next day. Also fuck this thread, I'm hungry as fuck.

is that a constipation chart repurposed so that the most desirable tier is super-constipated american?

I have to tell them to make it spicy because the regular clientele can't handle it.

Broccoli beef, white rice, hot and sour soup and eggrolls. Also sweet and sour chicken because my local place gives you a bunch of it on the side no matter what you order.

I'm pretty sure all they do when you ask for extra spice is sprinkle a little cayenne on your food as they cook it. Never is much hotter than the standard dish. Hence my liberal application of hot mustard to all Chinese takeout.

There's a lot of good Chinese places where I live, tons, in fact. But my favorite place is this tiny hole in the wall place that's kind of out of the way, in a residential area next to a 7-Eleven. It's just this couple running it, the husband is the chef, and the wife runs the front. There's only like 4 small tables, so we usually only get takeout, but the food is fucking fresh and delicious as fuck. They make the best Egg Foo Yung I've ever had, so that's usually my go-to order. I also like their Summer Hot Chicken, Bay Feng Tong shrimp, Szechuan Beef, MuShu Pork, Vegetable Lo Mein, and their Pineapple-Bbq Pork-Shrimp Fried Rice.

If I don't go there, I go to a Szechuan place a little further away that has really good dandan noodles, spicy dumplings, cumin lamb, and pickled vegetables.

and it isn't even real chinese food either..

>Costs me $9 for all of that or $7 for just the meal combo. Not bad imo.
How is that less expensive than Chinese takeout?
You're still eating the same food you could order from takeout. This post is fucking dumb.

i make it and compared to everything else its very time consuming
mostly because the way you have to bread the chicken

How does it differ from the other breaded, fried chicken dishes?

t. Fag

I'm not the guy you're replying to, but:

Western-style breading is to dip the meat into flour, then egg wash, and then breadcrumbs (or similar).

The Chinese method is to make a very sticky "batter" from cornstarch and egg. The chicken is dipped into the batter and then fried. Personally I don't think it's difficult or time consuming at all. Perhaps it's the frying part rather than the batter which user finds difficult?

Thats Chinese take-out lad

for example for general tso chicken you just use flour
fot sesame chicken you are supposed to use 3 parts corn starch to one part flour and then you add a bit of the sauce wich inmediately lumps and you mix and break the lumps until it has this wierd consitenci of sandy wet flour that sticks together and breaks appart
then you grab the chicken and dipp in beaten egg whites and coat it in that wich is kind of hard because it hardly sticks and then you deep fry it fast because you dont wannt it sitting too long and getting sticky
big pain in the ass, the sauce is too but make it right and is delicious

There are a couple Chinese buffets around here that charge $4 a pound to get takeout from the buffet. It's pretty sweet, I can get a wide variety of food that lasts 2 meals for $8.

Hot and spicy pork combination platter from sang sang. I believe it's got celery, carrot, pepper, and the pork in nicely sized strips, fried rice in the same container, and comes with an egg roll.

Other than that, sesame chicken with white rice, roast pork lo mein, and steamed dumplings. I don't tend to bother with anything else.

start with general tso, then go to sweet and sour pork, then beef w/ garlic sauce
if all three are good, I feel comfortable getting whatever from the place

Corn starch my dude

steamed pork dumplings (replace with pork buns if they have)
pork fried rice

>Sesame Chicken
>Black Pepper Chicken
>Tsao's Chicken
>Garlic & Black Pepper Shrimp
>Honey Chicken
>Eggdrop Soup
>Beef Dumplings
>Chicken Dumplings
>Those balls of chicken meat/breading on a stick
>Pork Eggrolls
>Springrolls
>Peanut Chicken

>Those nacho fries in the 3rd world panel

I gotta make that some time.

Enjoy that hypertension and beetus by 30, flyover, and heart attack by 35.

>Cafeteria at local Asian grocery

>It's OK when I do it but you should feel bad when you do it

Wew

Jesus Christ, just drop dead.

>tfw the only "Chinese" restaurant in your entire county is also a "Japanese" restaurant AND a pizzeria that has a multitude of health code violations

I never implied that, user. I never said there was anything wrong with anything. In an earlier post I was just remarking that saying Chinese takeout is unhealthy and oily then going to another Chinese place and getting meat with sugar and deep fried items is pretty much the same thing, I didn't say it was good or bad.

Could you please not make the whole board fucking depressing with your tales of how shitty your third world fly over village is? For fuck sake, keep that shit to yourself.

During my teen years my father made me work at the family restaurant to understand the value of the sweat of my brow. Every once in a while a fellow would order something just like that: large amounts of greasy food.

It would just happen that the day I was working that delivery man was out. The large order came in as usual: 3 orders of fried chicken wings, 1 order of fried drumsticks, 4 eggs rolls, 1 order of spring rolls, extra duck sauce on the side, 1 pint of beef lo mein. He always chose mountain dew for complimentary free beverage. He even ordered this during the summer. Who the hell eats all this fried shit in the summer?

The first times I delivered to his place the fellow had to be pushing somewhere between 300-400 lbs and was balder than Lex Luthor. He always insisted on tipping even though we told him it wasn't necessary what being a regular and all. He still lives in the neighborhood, but never comes out of his apartment.

opt, not opt out

you sound like an insufferable faggot.

Szechuan chicken, twice cooked pork, chop suey or curry fried rice.

just fuck my entire bank account up senpai

>can find hundreds of imitation General Tso's recipes that are perfect to the T
>not one reliable recipe for Egg Foo Young sauce

Where I'm from Egg Foo Young sauce is a thick, brown, somewhat nutty tasting gravy. i have no idea how to make it.

Yeah I'm sure most places have their own variation of it but the one from my place has a unique taste that I can't pick out. I want to say it's a sweet spice but I'm not sure. If it's not a spice, then I think it's the wine they use plus it having a chance for all the flavors to meld by being kept warm for a few hours.

Awwwww, does that offend your food court tendies-covered-in-sticky-sauce sucking soul?

>asian food actual asians are willing to pay for must be terrible
really gets my synapses firing

I live in a city of a million people.
There are 4 Vietnamese restaurants in a 5 mile radius of my house. They are all quite good.

The only "Chinese" restaurant is the "Chinese, Japanese, Korean, That, Sushi fun house!"

Twice cooked porn, seafood fried rice, crispy egg roll

>Twice cooked porn

wow... i guess that's must be pretty hot