When your Chinese friend who is visiting the US from China offers to cook Chinese food for dinner...

Make sure you tell them to cut up the Eye of Round roast into small pieces to cook to death in the wok.

Make sure you tell them not to cut up and cook to death the two Prime Angus NY Strip Steaks you bought because they said "they like steak".

Also, tell them the hot italian sausages are intended to be grilled with peppers and onions, and not cut up and boiled in some kind of soup concoction.

That is all.

I will be happy if my guests don't wok my dog.

That’s twice this week so far that I’ve read of good beef being charred to death. Not good.

Speaking from experience?

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
Make sure you tell them not to cut up and cook to death the two Prime Angus NY Strip Steaks you bought because they said "they like steak".

That reminds me of a time in Master Chef when Gordon Ramsey glared at a contestant and asked, "I gave you Prime rib [as a challenge ingredient], and you used it to make ground beef?"

Amillican wery strange - heat tea, put ice in make cold again.

Amillican wery strange - put lemon in make sour, put sugar in make sweet again.

Belch say excuse me, fart, everybody laugh - Amillican wery strange.

Where is your cat?

Ingredient quality matters, how was the food?

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
When your Chinese friend who is visiting the US from China offers to cook Chinese food for dinner...

Make sure you tell them to cut up the Eye of Round roast into small pieces to cook to death in the wok.

Make sure you tell them not to cut up and cook to death the two Prime Angus NY Strip Steaks you bought because they said "they like steak".

Also, tell them the hot italian sausages are intended to be grilled with peppers and onions, and not cut up and boiled in some kind of soup concoction.

That is all.

I love sausages with peppers and onions, lots of peppers and onions!!

My S-I-L is from China. The Chinese food she makes is amazing. We never turn down an invitation. It proves that the stuff you're served in 99% of so called Chinese restaurants here is crap.

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Originally posted by Blackmore:
My S-I-L is from China. The Chinese food she makes is amazing. We never turn down an invitation. It proves that the stuff you're served in 99% of so called Chinese restaurants here is crap.

American Chinese restaurant food is pretty far from authentic. It's a bastardization of Fujianese cooking adapated to American tastes. But you can get the ingredients to make authentic stuff at the Asian markets. And most restaurants will make authentic food for a Chinese speaker that asks them in Chinese.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Where is your cat?

My friend is from Guangxi, which borders Vietnam, and they eat dog, not cats. I know, I've been to a dog restaurant in Liuzhou.

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Originally posted by FenderBender:
Ingredient quality matters, how was the food?

It was fine, as long as you like small pieces of your NY Strip Steaks cooked until super-well-done.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
My friend is from Guangxi, which borders Vietnam, and they eat dog, not cats. I know, I've been to a dog restaurant in Liuzhou.

That's ruff. What's on the menu? You sure it wasn't just weiner dog?

One of my coworkers is from close to Shanghai. The spring rolls she makes by hand and brings to pot lucks are ERMAGERD good.

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Originally posted by Blackmore:
My S-I-L is from China. The Chinese food she makes is amazing. We never turn down an invitation. It proves that the stuff you're served in 99% of so called Chinese restaurants here is crap.

That's for sure. Most Americans have, sadly, never tasted real Chinese food. My Chinese grandmother used to make the real stuff. A whole different approach.

There are some very good chinese and korean restaurants in your area (greater area). Even by region (ie - Shanghainese, Hunan, Szechuan, Cantonese (the most prevalent), Hakka, even some Taiwanese style. My favorite being the Taiwanese style / Mandarin style. Beef noodle soup, beef in sesame bread, beef with soup in bun (nyuro xien bing (spelling?), braised sweet 5 spice pork belly, steamed pork ribs in rice powder (fun tzun pai gu) - one of my favorite meals. But like you say, very hard to find stateside. Korean food is getting better and easier to find. Japanese food is like a unicorn; I don't even go to so called japanese restaurants anymore.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
One of my coworkers is from close to Shanghai. The spring rolls she makes by hand and brings to pot lucks are ERMAGERD good.

Thank for calling them spring rolls. I still don't know why most places call them eggrolls. To me, that's a cookie. If you like Shanghainese cuisine, I think you'll like Taiwan/Mandarin style food. Taiwan style dimsum is a favorite of mine but usually only cantonese style dimsum is readily available here (which is also good).

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Originally posted by kkina:

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Originally posted by Blackmore:
My S-I-L is from China. The Chinese food she makes is amazing. We never turn down an invitation. It proves that the stuff you're served in 99% of so called Chinese restaurants here is crap.

That's for sure. Most Americans have, sadly, never tasted real Chinese food. My Chinese grandmother used to make the real stuff. A whole different approach.

The best Chinese food in CA...maybe America...nowadays is in the San Gabriel Valley in SoCal. That's where monied folks from the PRC are settling and the restaurants are springing up to catering to their taste

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Originally posted by bcereuss:
Speaking from experience?

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