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Chinese food

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Crispy duck & pancakes. Not.spicy but very tasty.

Salt & Pepper anything.

Singapore fried rice/chow mein/vermicelli.

Beef with honey & black pepper sauce is nice but not that many places seem to do it. Not particularly spicy but I kind of share your sweet & sour/watery gravy feelings about a lot of Chinese, and I like this dish.

You're better off going for Thai tbh.
 
chrismpw said:
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.
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My missus is Scouse Chinese and I eat a homemade Chinese at lease twice a week.

Am more or less a Chinese Food expert coz of her.I can provide you with the best chippies as well as best Chinese restaurants in the city of Liverpool.

Certain chippies and restaurants will excel at certain dishes depending on what part of China they are from...I prefer szchaun style cooking because of it use of chilli in dishes,there tends to be more layers to szchaun cooking as well.

Here is what I recommend.

Fried pork szuchan style
Char Sui in green pepper and black bean
King Prawn Cantonese style
Squid in Salt and pepper
Fried crab in Ginger and Spring onions
Dong Bo Pork
Mao xie wang

Best Chinese in Liverpool: Mr Chilli's Berry St.

Best Chinese Davey Lau's: Smithdown Rd

And yes I've nominated myself for Diabetes.
 
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Exeter_Gently said:
My missus is Scouse Chinese and I eat a homemade Chinese at lease twice a week.

Am more or less a Chinese Food expert coz of her.I can provide you with the best chippies as well as best Chinese restaurants in the city of Liverpool.

Certain chippies and restaurants will excel at certain dishes depending on what part of China they are from...I prefer szchaun style cooking because of it use of chilli in dishes,there tends to be more layers to szchaun cooking as well.

Here is what I recommend.

Fried pork szuchan style
Char Sui in green pepper and black bean
King Prawn Cantonese style
Squid in Salt and pepper
Fried crab in Ginger and Spring onions
Dong Bo Pork
Mao xie wang

Best Chinese in Liverpool: Mr Chilli's Berry St.

Best Chinese Davey Lau's: Smithdown Rd

And yes I've nominated myself for Diabetes.
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I'll look put for a szuchan next time thanks mate. And I love ginger!
 

chrismpw said:
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.
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Has to be satay or sometimes spelt satae as a main dish. It’s spicy but not too hot. Usually is quite dark brown in colour and comes with peppers and mushroom.
 

chrismpw said:
I'll look put for a szuchan next time thanks mate. And I love ginger!
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Chilli and Ginger?

This is my go to, it has a basic name along the lines of 'beef in chilli oil' cos that's exactly what it is at the heart of it.

Thinly sliced beef
Chilli oil
Dried chillies
Bamboo shoot
Bok choi
Minced garlic
Minced ginger
Spring onion garnish

Side of rice

Job done.
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chrismpw said:
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.
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I make a decent King Po chicken (I use tofu)

Crush some szechuan pepper corns and mix with cornflour and salt. Roll your chicken/prawns etc in this and fry it in hot oil in a wok, leave aside.

Bash up or whizz in blender some garlic, ginger and green chilli into a paste and add lemon juice.

Stir fry some veg of your choice in wok, add in the garlic/ginger/chili paste, add in 1 to 3 mix of hoisin sauce to soy sauce and some more lemon juice. Throw back in your chicken/prawns and finish off with some seasme seeds and spring onion.

Serve with rice or noodles.
 

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