Sun 2008/09/21 10:31
Some Chinese food for lunch - 1,120 yen. But the Chinese food here has been modified a lot to match Japanese tastes which is why I miss Chinese food back in London. To get "better" tasting food, I need to travel all the way to China Town in Yokohama - but the taste depends on the chef even though its the same restaurant. The Chinese food in Seattle and LA was great too, many folks told me that San Fran has great Chinese food but when I visited during my times at Amazon/Alexa, I found the food to be rather plain - maybe I just went to the wrong place? The best Chinese food I've had is not in Shanghai or Beijing but in Hong Kong. Were was the best Chinese food you've tasted and where should folks go to get decent Chinese food in your region?
Posted on Sun 2008/09/21 10:31 by
Extremely Poor College Student
what is the taste of japanese people?
(ID #308433) Posted on 2008/09/21 10:43
Director/代表取締役
A taste where if not matched then the restaurant quickly goes out of business - the best way I can describe it ^^;
(ID #308437) Posted on 2008/09/21 10:57
College Student and PC world drone worker
Thats true, in the UK most Chinese restaurant are completely suited to the British masses, all sweet and fried....if u go to China/Hong Kong and ask for sweet and sour chicken balls they'll just go "wtf u on about"
(ID #308446) Posted on 2008/09/21 11:06
Its kinda the same here in the States. Alot of the dishes here were invented for American tastes. As far as I know, General Tsu chicken wasn't originally found in China.
(ID #308669) Posted on 2008/09/21 15:53
a female demon possessed a guy body but end up controled by guy's "burning desire"...
i thought sweet n sour chicken balls are common in everywhere, since my country (malaysia) there is quite common thing there.
(ID #309184) Posted on 2008/09/22 03:07
College Student and PC world drone worker
not the restaurants i eat in Hong kong and Shenzhen back when i was living in Hong Kong, take away and restaurants here (UK) just cant compare to southern china's food
(ID #309353) Posted on 2008/09/22 07:27
College Student and PC world drone worker
Hong Kong's got the best chinese food indeed, there's just so many restaurants there, but the best 1 is in Tsim Sha Tsui which sells beijing food, they are hong kong famous for their beijing duck, expersive but defo worth going there for
(ID #308436) Posted on 2008/09/21 10:51
Otaku, High School Student
Hehe there's a Chinese place a block away from my house. Best Chinese in the city.
(ID #308442) Posted on 2008/09/21 10:59
Student
The capital of my region (Faro) has a small, calm and delicious chinese restaurant, I love going there but I order the same dish all the time which I love it, chicken chao min
(ID #308444) Posted on 2008/09/21 11:03
I really don't notice the quality in Chinese Food, they're all the same I guess, but definitely it's good in HK
(ID #308445) Posted on 2008/09/21 11:06
Student & Authorized Chicken Slapper
I must agree with you there Danny, HK had amazing food. The Street Vendors were awesome and had great stuff man, I would go back sometime just to eat throughout my vacation lol.
(ID #308447) Posted on 2008/09/21 11:06
Wait you taste Chinese Food in Penang...
(ID #308454) Posted on 2008/09/21 11:13
Director/代表取締役
Sure I have - love hokkien men.
(ID #308460) Posted on 2008/09/21 11:18
student
Hokkien men is only good when they have lots of fried fat inside. Makes it crunchy. Personally I still like the asam laksa better <3
(ID #308533) Posted on 2008/09/21 12:53
penang is supposely the chinese food hawker haven of malaysia. still a bunch load of roadside hawker stalls that sells good food, such as hokkien mee, wantan mee, asam laksa, char koay teow bla bla bla... but lately i guess the younger generation has decided not to pick up the skills from the parents and thus more and more good food are disappearing fast.
(ID #308834) Posted on 2008/09/21 19:05
It is the same in Singapore!
(ID #308936) Posted on 2008/09/21 21:58
Director/代表取締役
My folks used to live in Kuala Kangsar road - miss the hawker stalls round the corner.
(ID #308974) Posted on 2008/09/21 23:12
Theres food from all over the world here, but the Chinese food is good here too.
(ID #308456) Posted on 2008/09/21 11:16
The best one that i ate is one here in São Paulo, on a place in the 'Liberdade'-Japanese District-. I dunno the name coz don't hv a name in the entrance. They have a salt water aquarium in the entrance. The place looks a little dirty, and sometimes they look an abandoned restaurant, but their food are really awesome. They try to put the things very near the original, since the family that run the restaurant are all from China. Hey Danny, can you put on posts or maybe i should ask by mail the address for those places that you eat, I want try it too in my trip to Japan ^-^.
(ID #308462) Posted on 2008/09/21 11:19
CEO kerororo (Registered on 2008/02/27 07:30)
Hong Kong ^^ and Toronto.. or the area around it. Because there's a huge Chinese population round there.
(ID #308485) Posted on 2008/09/21 11:51
hmmm i've eaten a lot of chinese food, but it's never been spectacular. for me it's either been 'pretty good' or 'meh' ^^; sf has good chinese food, but the problem is that there's so many places (and obviously they're not all great), you really need someone with good taste to point you in the right direction
(ID #308500) Posted on 2008/09/21 12:11
TK-8316 / 宅男 Otaku / 工程师 Engineer
many visitors to our sunny island loves our hainanese chicken rice. it can be found in most eateries/hawker centres. ^^; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainanese_chicken_rice
(ID #308501) Posted on 2008/09/21 12:12
Katong Laksa <3
(ID #308569) Posted on 2008/09/21 13:34
Student; wants a job T_T
I haven't been to Hong Kong before, but I hear the food there is fantastic. The best Chinese food here is found in various restaurants owned mostly by chinese immigrants. The food made to suit American tastes is...bleh. ><
(ID #308506) Posted on 2008/09/21 12:25
college student
yea danny im use to live in san Francisco and there is plenty of good chinese restaurant, i guess u went to the wrong one...there is one call china village which tast heck good!!!! OH! there is also one call THE GREAT WALL which is hecka good too >.<
(ID #308508) Posted on 2008/09/21 12:29
Here in Vancouver, there is quite a bit of Chinese food. If you go to the Richmond (neighboring city), there are streets full of Chinese restaurants and other Asian cuisine XD.
(ID #308516) Posted on 2008/09/21 12:38
Student - Network Engineering - CCNA
Chinese food in Sydney is fantastic. No different to what you can get in HK. The only different thing is being price and avaliability. You can't get a bowl of wonton here so easily for AUD$3-4 equiv like you can in HK. From what i've learnt, there are 2 major places that HK ppl migrate to. Either Australia or Canada. I really wonder why that it's so...
(ID #308528) Posted on 2008/09/21 12:49
university film student
That's true now that I think about it - I'm one of those who went to Canada. I know friends who moved to Australia, and one in particular who moved to Australia, *then* Canada. :P I'm not sure about the Chinese (or rather Cantonese) food around here, since I don't go out too often, but from what I know we definitely have better choice, taste and value here in Toronto than most places around the country.
(ID #308722) Posted on 2008/09/21 16:52
Horror☆Star
Ahhh!!! I miss H.K. foods......but not their services (only limited to chinese restauran). In Malaysia there are just too many to decide which one is best, it vary from each person taste. But the peking duck of "Li Yen" luxury restaurant in Ritz Carlton Hotel K.L. is super duper delicious!!!! Talking about foods in the early morning, my stomach is making noises...............
(ID #308534) Posted on 2008/09/21 12:53
part time illustrationist, doll clothing seamstress
I think what's the strangest thing is there's plenty of places with "Singaporean-food" but I don't find all authentic (even if they sometimes claim to be) Example the Hokkien fried noodle is totally different from what I know back in Singapore ^^; Speaking of I miss my mom's cooking ;_;
(ID #308536) Posted on 2008/09/21 12:56
hehe, I wish I could taste what home made Hokkien taste like because I really like the Hokkien they serve in Singaporean restaurants here in London but I really wonder if it's that authentic. It's like Latin food, I ate at restaurants but still missed hers XD
(ID #308556) Posted on 2008/09/21 13:25
NEET (no, student...)
where did you eat in SF? You gotta go to a place where the locals eat, that's outside the main street of China... Regardless, Chinese food in CA, at least Bay Area, is quite fantastic... And I liked Japanese Chinese food... I've been tempted to go to china just to taste the chinese food...
(ID #308543) Posted on 2008/09/21 13:04
Informatics(ComSci-ish) student/self-taught graphic designer and illustrator/Network Operations Support Analyst
Chinese food is really good in the Philippines ^_^ In Halifax, Canada not so much because they too tailor it to the local tastes just as you mentioned. We always have to request the chef to cook it the way he would normally do ^^;
(ID #308550) Posted on 2008/09/21 13:12
Software Quality Engineer
I hope I can go to HK some time. There is some pretty excellent Chinese food right here in Chicago, though. The majority of the Chinese restaurant owners in Chicago are from Hong Kong. You can get both the Americanised stuff and also the real deal. There are great places in Chinatown that have two menus-- one for the Americans that's written in English and another one that has at least 4 more pages, written all in Chinese. I like going there with my Chinese-speaking friends, and letting them just order whatever they think is good.
(ID #308561) Posted on 2008/09/21 13:26
The choices in New York are plentiful, but here in Japan I do have trouble finding Chinese Food that fits my American perception of "Chinese Food." I hate to say it, but I went to Panda Express in Kobe not too long ago just to satisfy my urges. It's not very good, frankly, but it's American-style and that's what I needed.
(ID #308565) Posted on 2008/09/21 13:30
Software Quality Engineer
There's Panda Express in Japan!? Ohhhhh.... man! That's..... odd.
(ID #312101) Posted on 2008/09/24 20:48
Best tasting Chinese food? Home. There are plenty of Chinese restaurants around but most of them are oriented for speed and profit. As a result, the rice boxes you get are usually substandard. The problem I face most of the time is oily food. I worked part time at a Chinese restaurant for some festival and lets just say, I didn't want to see fried food for the next few days. Their best seller was all deep fried stuff. That said, not all restaurants are bad. It all depends on whether the head chef is in or not. The quality of the food should explain everything. If you want good Chinese food in Toronto, you have to find someone who has really been around. Befriend someone who frequently eats out and they will gladly recommend several places.
(ID #308566) Posted on 2008/09/21 13:30
Online Shop
I think it's hard for a Chinese restaurant with Chinese taste in Japan to succeed since there are so many good Japanese restaurants in Japan so that's why they modify their taste a lot. Since I don't live in Japan but just visit there all the time, I would rather eat more Japanese food than Chinese food so I won't need to complain about modified taste ^^; I live in LA area and since I tasted many great Chinese food so can't handpick the best place >_<
(ID #308567) Posted on 2008/09/21 13:33
Gah, I think I need to go to Hong Kong now >.> I've eaten Chinese food in most places in Europe, but still find London's better(except for sweet and sour pork in Paris XD). But I've found that each restaurant excels on certain dishes, so I go to each depending on what I want to eat that day. Hard to explain :S
(ID #308577) Posted on 2008/09/21 13:38
Oh yes, chinese food in HK is the best. On my trip in China I was constantly surprised it wasn't better out of all the places we went. Even the Peking duck is better in HK. Bad thing is you can literally feel your gut growing larger during meals if you stay too long in HK.
(ID #308597) Posted on 2008/09/21 14:05
JR. College Student
The city (SF) has some nice Chinese food. I went there for a Chinese new-year parade a couple years ago and had some great Chinese food. Don't know where it was but I remember eating a lot of dumplings. Mmm so good.
(ID #308600) Posted on 2008/09/21 14:08
resident caffeine junkie
I have to agree with you on Hong Kong having the best tasting Chinese Food. ^_^
(ID #308604) Posted on 2008/09/21 14:13
Shanghai is not a Chinese city - it was built as a western port less than 200 years ago hence it has no local Chinese flavour of its own - perse. I found that when i was there, the small restaurants did much better cooking than the larger, fancier ones. Food Stalls on streets also had incredible flavours but the health risk is ... I specifically got immunized vs all the Heps and assorted diseases before I went so I could eat at my leisure.
(ID #308624) Posted on 2008/09/21 14:30
Student, Gamer, Part-time EFSF Pilot
It sucks to eat not thinking about it and then spend 3 days of a special trip like that grabbing onto a toilet...
(ID #308944) Posted on 2008/09/21 22:15
Tequila (Registered on 2008/08/26 22:16)
It all depends on the chef :) and there's so many different chinese foods from various regions, its sometimes hard to decide for someonelse what's tasty and what not.
(ID #308627) Posted on 2008/09/21 14:40
Student, Fansubber, Freelance Web Forum Admin
I just go to the restaurants that my mom has been bringing me to ever since I was a kid in San Francisco. You most likely went to the wrong ones, Danny. All the ones that I've been to are delicious ^^;
(ID #308637) Posted on 2008/09/21 14:54
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
My hometown has LOTS of chinese immigrants, so I had the pleasure to have both restaurants with "adapted" chinese food and the original stuff. They are almost like two completely different cuisines. Generic adapted chinese restaurants in Brazil has mostly matsuri-like food... chinese bread, that chicken with peanuts thing, chop suey rice and other stuff that mixes veggies, noodles and some meat. The traditional restaurant has so many delicious different stuff... plates with duck meat, chinese vegetables, chinese fish... the sauce has a completely different taste. Dunno how to explain, but when I go back to my hometown again I'll have lunch there and take some pics.
(ID #308667) Posted on 2008/09/21 15:45
Hong Kong food is quite bland and tasteless in most restaurants. Only some of the upscale restaurants match my taste at all. I was born in China, and travel there often. My favorite food comes from three places: Sichuan, Anhui, and Hubei provinces. Authentic Chinese food from those areas are absolutely amazing. Cantonese cuisine is far too gentle in taste. I can barely even taste most of the food ^^;
(ID #308674) Posted on 2008/09/21 16:04
I've had Chinese food from Chinatowns all over the U.S., but I was to young to remember which was which...but I live a few blocks from Chinatown so I never have to go to far for some Chinese food...
(ID #308681) Posted on 2008/09/21 16:13
I've never had anything else to compare it to... but Chinese food is delicious here, and very often it's nicely priced too. ^^
(ID #308688) Posted on 2008/09/21 16:19
That reminded me of how the American food in Japan tastes better than the American food in America. Chinese food is gross here.
(ID #308697) Posted on 2008/09/21 16:23
Student, Gamer, Part-time EFSF Pilot
You're right, american food (fast-food at least) tastes better outside of America. I love KFC here in Portugal, but I went to KFC in New York this one time I was out there and it was awful x_x
(ID #308942) Posted on 2008/09/21 22:12
... there's only one place to eat chinese food around here.... and it's not very good anyway...
(ID #308712) Posted on 2008/09/21 16:42
a female demon possessed a guy body but end up controled by guy's "burning desire"...
Anyone tried "Bak Kut Teh"?
(ID #308740) Posted on 2008/09/21 17:16
Actually chinese food is a rather general term. There's actually like 8 major traditions and countless other styles of dishes. There's so many food stalls/restaurant here in Hong Kong it's really a paradise :) Not to mention pandas!
(ID #308768) Posted on 2008/09/21 17:50
Designer
Somehow chinese food is just not authentic unless it's from countries where majority of the population is chinese.
(ID #308792) Posted on 2008/09/21 18:25
Chinatown in Soho is the best place to go in London, unless you have the money for one of the expensive places like Hakkasan.
(ID #308827) Posted on 2008/09/21 18:59
(excluding china) canada's chinese food (dimsum) is one of the best , singapore's is also nice not that oily, also here in the philippines if you know the right place coz chinese food here is very common
(ID #308829) Posted on 2008/09/21 19:01
I've always been perfectly happy with the Chinese food I've had in Japan. I've eaten in a number of places including Yokohama's Chinatown, also one of the airport hotels at Narita, and several more local restaurants in the suburbs of Tokyo.
(ID #308831) Posted on 2008/09/21 19:01
ooo is that mapo tofu? my favouite *drools but honestly, singapore food are either too oily or dry. homecook food's the best!
(ID #308855) Posted on 2008/09/21 19:36
Part human, part student, 100% loser
This post is making me hungry LOL ^^;
(ID #308870) Posted on 2008/09/21 19:46
Photographer/Night Auditor
There really isn't any good Chinese places where I live it's all generic and tastes the same. But the best that I've had so far was in Seattle in the International district.
(ID #308878) Posted on 2008/09/21 19:53
Mechanical Engineering student
I like eating Chinese foods. My favorites are Chinese fried rice, wanton noodle soup and Chinese fish fillet. There are a lot of Chinese restaurants here in the Philippines. It's probably because we have close ties with China in the past and today and the fact that a lot of Filipinos have Chinese blood like me. If this is the case, I think that Chinese foods here taste like authentic Chinese food in China. I don't really now. I haven't been to China yet x_x
(ID #308894) Posted on 2008/09/21 20:15
i hv chinese food.. almost.. everyday..
(ID #308928) Posted on 2008/09/21 21:35
Tacoma, WA, had the best Chinese I've tried in the U.S...^_^
(ID #308935) Posted on 2008/09/21 21:56
Student, Gamer, Part-time EFSF Pilot
Thank God, in Portugal (or at least in the area of Porto) the chinese food is good and pretty much sticks to the conventional preparations. My favorite restaurant around here is an oriental one (it has japanese, chinese, korean and some thai food) is owned by a chinese family and is called Furosato (home away from home?). Last time I went I ate some Teppanyaki and I tought it was pretty close to Chow Mein... Was it supposed to?
(ID #308941) Posted on 2008/09/21 22:10
Chinese cuisine has a lot of great foods, but one of the most prominent is the Xiao Long Bao. Definitely unique and tasty!
(ID #308972) Posted on 2008/09/21 23:10
Best place to get chinese food is in chinatown in downtown Toronto and cheap too.
(ID #309035) Posted on 2008/09/22 00:22
Come to Singapore man! Food haven!! Haha. Chinese food is everywhere. From very cheap to very expensive. Those who come to our sunny (but very hot and humid) island should try the hawker centres (outdoor, sheltered food courts w/o the aircon). Have tsz char (a few dishes w rich / noodles). Cheap and GOOD!
(ID #309101) Posted on 2008/09/22 01:13
part-time professional part-timer
well the best chinese food here is in china town. :))
(ID #309112) Posted on 2008/09/22 01:25
There's a lot of Chinese restaurants here. The ones in the upscale casinos are actually the worst places. There's a Chinese and Korean district down here, and they have some -really- good Korean food. I haven't stopped by the Chinese places yet. Even in this town, it's really hard to come by good Japanese food. Can't wait to finally go to Tokyo... all your pictures of food are making me want to jump on a plane right now. :]
(ID #309121) Posted on 2008/09/22 01:39
For those planning to go to Hong Kong, avoid tourist-orientated areas such as Tsim Sha Tsui and go for the restaurants in more local areas or areas highly recommended by the locals, and you won't go wrong. This is quite true for pretty much any other places and countries.
(ID #309169) Posted on 2008/09/22 02:53
Born and raised ABC in San Francico always heard of great food 'back home'. finally got my change during Christmas and New Years 2007-2008. fabulous food every where (Tsim Sha Tsui), but it seemed that truly original dishes don't exist (dishes i had heard about when i was a kid). instead 80% of the time was really about great American values (KFC, McD's, Starbuck's, Circle K, etc.). even went all the way to Aberdeen (Jumbo was a bust). it seemed like peppered or chili-ed food was the standard fare everywhere. the real pleasure was taking the big chance on the mid-night street vendors at 2 a.m. in the morning! that' eatin'. yum.
(ID #309209) Posted on 2008/09/22 03:53
There are a lot of places to get Chinese food around where I live, but I can't say if any of them are better then any other. They all taste the same, and not very authentic, from what I've heard. I did go to a nice place in California. E^D
(ID #309188) Posted on 2008/09/22 03:10
a female demon possessed a guy body but end up controled by guy's "burning desire"...
well, I'm Hakka people there, I've no comment about sweet Chinese food there because usually Hakka people loves saltier flavor food. I think Cantonese people love sweet food, isn't it?
(ID #309189) Posted on 2008/09/22 03:13
