Chinese food

[chrismpw]

Help me out.

I love my food and I'll eat anything... but I have preferences and there are only a few things I'd rarely choose or avoid. I love a rich curry - jalfrezi is bliss.

The missus and her family nearly always choose a Chinese. The problem is, in my experience, there are only two dish flavour profiles .... "sweet and sour" - which is one of the very few things I dislike, or "watery gravy."

I'm sure I'm wrong. It's just that looking at a menu fills me with dread in case I accidentally order a sweet and sour. I normally go safe with pork chop suey or chow mein, or satay if I remember it. Frankly I'm bored with my choices.

Please outline your suggestions for tasty, spicey but not sweet or sour, not watery gravy Chinese dishes I can try.

Ta.

Great site lads.

 

[Nymzee]

You said Chinese only has two flavour profiles then listed things you order that don’t fall into either

 

[Rita_Poon]

Help me out.

I love my food and I'll eat anything... but I have preferences and there are only a few things I'd rarely choose or avoid. I love a rich curry - jalfrezi is bliss.

The missus and her family nearly always choose a Chinese. The problem is, in my experience, there are only two dish flavour profiles .... "sweet and sour" - which is one of the very few things I dislike, or "watery gravy."

I'm sure I'm wrong. It's just that looking at a menu fills me with dread in case I accidentally order a sweet and sour. I normally go safe with pork chop suey or chow mein, or satay if I remember it.

Please outline your suggestions for tasty, spicey but not sweet or sour, not watery gravy Chinese dishes I can try.

Ta.

Great site lads.

Beef Szechuan. Ask for extra chilli and garlic. Half rice, half chips. Plenty of vinegar.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Beef in Szechuan sauce can be good but depends on where you go.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Beef Szechuan. Ask for extra chilli and garlic. Half rice, half chips. Plenty of vinegar.

Beat me to it. I had to check the spelling

 

[chrismpw]

You said Chinese only has two flavour profiles then listed things you order that don’t fall into either

I'd put chow mein and chop suey into the watery gravy profile every time. Maybe it's just the way it's done in North Wiltshire. Agree, Satay stands alone- could be a third profile.

 

[chrismpw]

Beef in Szechuan sauce can be good but depends on where you go.

What's it like?

Also ... what number is it?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Beat me to it

S&P ribs are good as well. Sadly customers need a new mortgage for a decent starter nowadays.

Why do you lot start chatting food late on nowadays? I've enough suffering.

 

[Pootsy]

A Chicken Fried Rice with a Curry Sauce is what you’re looking for I think.

 

[Efcjake]

Singapore noodles and salt and pepper anything

 

[JimmyJeffers]

What's it like?

Also ... what number is it?

Spicy, soy, vinegar. Depends where you go. I like big bits of fresh crispy peppers and onion as well with mine.

 

[Nymzee]

I must say, I wouldn’t order a Chinese takeout down south. You lads don’t get the good stuff down there. Up north is a different story.

 

[chrismpw]

I must say, I wouldn’t order a Chinese takeout down south. You lads don’t get the good stuff down there. Up north is a different story.

I have observed, on any subject, that there is a 40 mile exclusion zone around Swindon where absolutely nothing good exists.

I'm not in Swindon, but close enough to feel it's effects.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Mix meat in hot bean sauce. Ask for extra garlic and chilli. Lots of peppers and bean sprouts. Half & half. Used to be able to get a feast of a main (with boiled rice) for £6.

Them days long gone.

 

[Zed Car]