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I hate Chinese food.

Naikon

There, I said it. Maybe I am eating in the wrong places, or I am not eating traditional
Chinese food, but I try to avoid the stuff as much as possible.

When I got off work today, I ordered up a chicken with black bean sauce at the new local.
Not impressed at all tbh. The food was somewhat reminiscent of rubber.
The glutinous/slimey texture and the amount of food items infested with good ol MSG doesen't help it's credibility either.

Why is this crap so fecking popular? I am aware that it is a huge seller(especially among
pub goers), but I don't understand why. Tbh, I would much prefare a sandwich, a steak, or an Italian dish.
Most of the restaurants tend to be very generic to cater for people who want exotic food, but is not too exotic.

Do YOU have a preference for this food over other food, or am I just a silly madman?

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challengemaster

Proper chinese food is lovely, the only problem is, you've got to go to china for it.

There's a few top notch places around tbh, but a lot of places are just ****ty take-aways.

Oh and drunk people would eat anything, thats why its popular

Creamy Goodness

yeh you're not eating traditional chinese food, which is devine.

although chicken/duck/beef with black bean is one of my favourites from the conventional irish chinese menu, perhaps you got a bad restaurant.

Alicat

Go Thai! It's much nicer, and lighter than Chinese but they have a lot of similar dishes.

I used to eat a fair bit of Chinese but I stick to Thai most of the time now.

Miss Fluff

I think a lot of them load their food with MSG. Apparently you can ask for it without.

Creamy Goodness

what's this MSG seen it mentioned on boards before?

KnifeWRENCH

I do like an occassional Chinese.
There's a dish called Penang Chicken (I think it's Cantonese) and it is absolutely gorgeous!

*drools*
Having said that, Chinese food in general is not my favourite type of food (too many vegetables!)

If I was with friends/family and we were hungry, then chipper does fine.
Going for a Chinese is more suitable for special occassions.

EDIT: Having checked Wikipedia, it appears Penang is actually Malaysian. Still, Chinese restaurants do it and it's so yummy!!

Run_to_da_hills

I found a maggot in a chow mein at a chinese restaurant about five years ago. I brought the meal back to show your one and she offered me a replacement meal. I nearly spilled my guts out :eek:

leninbenjamin

Cremo wrote: »

what's this MSG seen it mentioned on boards before?

Monosodium glutamate. flavour enhancer that is bad for you.

and OP, you're obviously just going to sh*t restaurants.

Nailz

I like Chinese a good bit, but Indian FTW!!!

Naikon

Cremo wrote: »

what's this MSG seen it mentioned on boards before?

Basically, it's a form of salt which is used for flavor enhancing purposes, but I think
it just makes food taste like rubber. Pretty bad stuff tbh.

There are documented health risks, so it's not good to be eating this stuff really.
Chinese restaurants tend to abuse the stuff, but it's in stuff like Doritos, canned/pre packed foods etc.

Bob the Builder

Chinese food is lovely. used to eat it loads until I went to some dodgy take away, got food poisoned, and never ate any chinese since. Unless you can find a proper chinese outlet restaraunt, you'll only eat crap, and if you're as unlucky as me, get food poisoned.

Went to thai restaraunt in portugal last year. Got food poisoned there for 24hours from it(along with the family). Thats when I knew that it was time to stick to the irish food.

Abi

Naikon wrote: »

Do YOU have a preference for this food over other food, or am I just a silly madman?

Yes, get off the internet

Have you gone for the plainer stuff? Beef / Chicken curry with rice or chips?

I rarely go outside that, maybe sweet and sour or chinese chicken with garlic sauce. ( or whatever teh fuck you call it) ..

I always ask for breast of chicken curry, otherwise you get rubber-balls that taste vaguely of chicken..

Xavi6

Can't beat an oul cantonese duck with fried rice or a drunken trio with half a portion of chicken balls. Yum.

Dont be at yourself

MSG is 'bad for you' the same as salt or sugar are bad for you. It's also used in authentic chinese cooking in Asia to give it a 'moorish' or 'savory' taste, and is not some chemical additive cooked up in a lab for use in dodgy fast-food restaurants.

In many Asian countries, they have 5 tastes. On top of the established sweet, sour, salty and bitter, there is another. In Japanese, it is called umami - and MSG is to umami what NaCl (table salt) is to salty. Ignore the acronyms and scare-mongering, because MSG - like any other foodstuff - is perfectly healthy in moderation.

kowloon

A lot of what we get here is pretty awful stuff, insipid glutinous crap. There are good places though. Indian is generally of a higher standard as it hasn't been accepted yet as regular fast food in the same way as the chinese.
I've had some great food though, places with good sit down are usually better than the take aways.

Naikon

Abigayle wrote: »

Yes, get off the internet

Have you gone for the plainer stuff? Beef / Chicken curry with rice or chips?

I rarely go outside that, maybe sweet and sour or chinese chicken with garlic sauce. ( or whatever teh fuck you call it) ..

I always ask for breast of chicken curry, otherwise you get rubber-balls that taste vaguely of chicken..

Yeah, the plainer stuff is palatable in most cases, but it's far from real chinese
food. Isn't curry a traditional Indian dish?

JupiterKid

I too have grown sick somewhat of Chinese food. The problem is that whilst a good Chinese restaurant can serve up excellent quality food, there are so many crappy take aways, especially in and around Dublin that serve up water and hormone injected rubbery chicken and pork with lashings of MSG - the stuff they dish out is basically gunk and they get away with it because few bother to complain.

Also, Chinese restrauants and take aways are one of the biggest trensgressors of health and safety and hygiene regulations in this country - not good. I find Indian take aways to be of a noticably superior quality to Chinese.

JC 2K3

There are two types of chinese restaurants/take aways. Ones that buy in a load of vaious sauces - sweet and sour, curry etc. and give you that with rice and some (usually battered and deep fried) meat, and ones that genuinely have good chefs, make thier own sauces etc.

The former generally are really crap, but proper Chinese food can be extremely tasty.

challengemaster

If you ever get the chance, get proper Peking/Beijing duck. The way this is served in Beijing is, a full Peking duck is brought out to your table, and carved by a skillful chef infront of you. The duck is sliced into something like 147 wafer thin slices, and then the head is cut in two. It's served with steamed flour pancakes and scallions, in a lovely sweet noodle sauce.

More info on it here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Duck

You'll never look at a chinese take away the same again

Abi

Naikon wrote: »

Isn't curry a traditional Indian dish?

Shut up man.. You've done enough damage as it is. Nobody is answering at the local chinese :'(

:pac:

magick

I love chinese food but i think Japanese food is better

asian girls FTW

Jesus Wept

What has this got to do with asian chicks?! lol

kowloon

Sushi is becoming the new fashionable food for rich students apparently.

KnifeWRENCH

kowloon wrote: »

Sushi is becoming the new fashionable food for rich students apparently.

Sushi's Japanese I think.
But yeah, I've seen sushi stands around UCC. I've never actually seen anyone try it though!

kowloon

square_igloo wrote: »

Sushi's Japanese I think.
But yeah, I've seen sushi stands around UCC. I've never actually seen anyone try it though!

In TCD too, prefer the proper places, not the cheapest way to dine though.

KnifeWRENCH

I could never eat it - I don't even eat cooked fish.
I don't think Japanese food would appeal to me - a lot of it seems to be fish.
I've never had an Indian or a Thai - I'm not the most cultured individual I'm afraid!

Dont be at yourself

There's a lot more to Japanese food - and indeed Sushi - than raw fish.

Sushi itself just refers to a type of vinegared rice. On this rice can be anything from raw tuna, octopus and eel to potato salad, hamburger meat, hotdog or egg-mayonaise.

And while Japanese cuisine does feature a lot of fish, there are some amazing dishes based around pork, beef, chicken or vegetables too. My favourites are katsudon - a deep-fried breaded pork cutlet cooked in an egg & onion sauce, served on a bowl of rice - and okonomiyaki - a pancake of sorts made out of cabbage, noodles, bacon and eggs. Yum!

Healio

challengemaster wrote: »

Oh and drunk people would eat anything, thats why its popular

Thats a +1 right there.

Add to that, most Irish drinkers late night snacks consist of Chinese/hot-dog/Abrakebra, divide them into GDA's and you roughly get 1 every 10 years as your allowance :pac:

Xavi6

square_igloo wrote: »

I could never eat it - I don't even eat cooked fish.
I don't think Japanese food would appeal to me - a lot of it seems to be fish.
I've never had an Indian or a Thai - I'm not the most cultured individual I'm afraid!

Only a bit of it is fish. For example, have you ever had chicken teriyaki on a roll from Spar? Cause that's Japanese.

Like a chinese take away alright. Not really a fan of thai food though, their curries are awful .