Chinese Food in Japan

what is the taste of japanese people?

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

Hehe there's a Chinese place a block away from my house. Best Chinese in the city.

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

I really don't notice the quality in Chinese Food, they're all the same I guess, but definitely it's good in HK

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.

Wait you taste Chinese Food in Penang...

Theres food from all over the world here, but the Chinese food is good here too.

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 ^-^.

Hong Kong ^^ and Toronto.. or the area around it. Because there's a huge Chinese population round there.

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

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

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. ><

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 >.<

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.

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...

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...............

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 ;_;

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...

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 ^^;

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.

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.

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.

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 >_<

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

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.

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.

I have to agree with you on Hong Kong having the best tasting Chinese Food. ^_^

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.

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.

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 ^^;

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.

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 ^^;

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...

I've never had anything else to compare it to... but Chinese food is delicious here, and very often it's nicely priced too. ^^

That reminded me of how the American food in Japan tastes better than the American food in America. Chinese food is gross here.

... there's only one place to eat chinese food around here.... and it's not very good anyway...

Anyone tried "Bak Kut Teh"?

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!

Somehow chinese food is just not authentic unless it's from countries where majority of the population is chinese.

Chinatown in Soho is the best place to go in London, unless you have the money for one of the expensive places like Hakkasan.

(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

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.

ooo is that mapo tofu? my favouite *drools
but honestly, singapore food are either too oily or dry. homecook food's the best!

This post is making me hungry LOL ^^;

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.

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

i hv chinese food.. almost.. everyday..

Tacoma, WA, had the best Chinese I've tried in the U.S...^_^

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?

Chinese cuisine has a lot of great foods, but one of the most prominent is the Xiao Long Bao. Definitely unique and tasty!

Best place to get chinese food is in chinatown in downtown Toronto and cheap too.

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!

well the best chinese food here is in china town. :))

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. :]

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.

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

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?

^.^ anyone else think that Kagami looks so cute in that picture?

"But the Chinese food here has been modified a lot to match Japanese tastes "
I have heard that this modifying happens a lot and also with other nations foods. When you want to try the real thing, you have to visit the country.

Hong Kong is THE place for me, though local Chinese is very good as well thanks to old-chinese families here. Can't wait for my return trip to HK this December (Happy Garden! just outside Marco Polo).

i have 3 here ^^ 2 are good but one is not so good ... we have a Chinese buffet, and the regular but then we have another place but they fry about everything i don't like Chinese food deep fried, the best would be a sweet sour chicken it has, chicken, pineapple, rice, sour sauce, lobster meet, vegetables, and the spices and everything else lol cant thing of everything on it lol but it is big ^^ id say around 12 inches long and 5 in high ^^ or so lol...then the buffet is the best!! ^^

I think Toronto has the best Chinese food places compared to any other western cities/countries...they are pretty close to HK standard imo

I agree that HK definitely has great Chinese food. I'd have to vouch for authentic Chinese food here in Toronto. Having lived in both places, I'd have to say the food here in TO is pretty much on par with that in HK, although of course in terms of sheer accessibility (24/7) and variety of choice, HK is definitely the way to go.

Lots of chinese food places here that are very good since we have china town, and a very large chinese population

I agree, the best Chinese food is to be found in Hong Kong, where the chefs still have pride in their cookery.

Chinese food here in the states has alot more of rich thick sauces than I think would be found in china. Lots of fried food. When I was younger I asked for butter for my rice at the chinese restaurant (thats how we ate it at home) and they laughed at me. Lol.

Chinese food here in the states has alot more of rich thick sauces than I think would be found in china. Lots of fried food. When I was younger I asked for butter for my rice at the chinese restaurant (thats how we ate it at home) and they laughed at me. Lol.

I have to say Hong Kong as well!!!!!!
So good!!!
Love the food there!!!

Would have to nominate my Grandmothers house. =P Normally though, I have to go to Chinatown in NYC to get my hands on some good Chinese. I live out in the burbs and the only "Chinese" restaurants around here are staffed by anything but Chinese people.

2 miles down the street. There is a place called "China Town" thats the name of the restaurant. No buffet, and everything is fresh. None of the flash frozen reheated crap you find in most places. just go early for the hot and sour soup, as the night progresses it gets a kind of burned flavor from being heated so long.

Makes me wonder why anyone would voluntarily eat chinese food... Not sure how it is outside of China, however the "real thing" is just a sluggy mess full of bones, fat and MSG.

I'll stick to my Tonkatsu and Curry :p

NYC Chinatown isn't bad. There are plenty of choices and some of the places are really cheap too compared to the rest of NYC's restaurants and bars. I prefer noodle soup places and the occasional dim sum instead of the standard sweet + sour chicken and general tso's fare.

Lately in NYC, but more specifically in Queens and Brooklyn there's been a lot of "HK Tea House" places supposedly serving Hong Kong style food. I haven't been back to Hong Kong since I was very little so I'm not sure of the comparison but I'd imagine that they don't make many baked spaghetti or rices...or do they? It's ok though because I really love the Curry Chicken w/ rice, though you can get that anywhere...they makes it so yummy. In fact I had an order today.

Bubble Tea also seems to be explosive in frequency of store openings in the last 2 years...

"Golden Village" area in Richmond, BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Village_(Richmond,_British_Columbia)
Crystal Mall in Burnaby, BC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Mall_(British_Columbia)
Richmond, always seems to be the place to go for food, there's just so much selection.

I would like to eat at one of Chen Kenichi's restaurants.

I find the best chinese restaurants in Los Angeles are generally in Alhambra/Monterrey Park/San Gabriel area. You can get great cantonese, hunan, sichuan and islamic chinese there. Mostly cantonese, but you can probably find all varieties there. Theres some pretty good places in LA proper. I would recommend Maos Kitchen in Venice. Its got great propaganda decor, but the food is of different areas, and generally not very oily. So it may not be "authentic" but its very good. The service varies there. Theres also a pretty decent place in the Sawtelle shopping center called Hong Kong Kitchen. Its very affordable and good for typical chinese fare. San Fran is known for great chinese, but I havent sampled enough. Victoria Island in BC had great Dim Sums. The chinese food was definately different in Japan.

Id recommend finding a good Korean-Chinese. Its better than most regualar chinese places. I heard Indian-CHinese is great too..

I haven't eaten Chinese food in a while.. so I've forgotten the name ^^;
We have many Chinese and Korean restaurants here, even Yakiniko!

> The best Chinese food I've had is not in Shanghai or Beijing but in Hong Kong.

check this out:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/index.htm

In my region, some people think that Panda Express is authentic Chinese food.

Is that a 麻婆豆腐？（マーボ・ドウフ）（Mabo Doufu)??
I love those things they're soo good.
I don't know any really good Chinese Restaurants around my place, but
I love Chinese food in general. They're good!!!

The best chinese restaurants in Amsterdam, The Netherlands are definitly
Nam Tim / Nam Kee ;)

Ppl said Vancouver has the best chinese food (outside of China) in the world. Give me a call if you come to Vancouver for Chinese food. =]

I tried Chinese food in Yokohoma. I thought it was good (including Japanese style upside down bowl fried rice), but it didn't felt like home. =( My home are SF/Bay Area, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou. =)

All I know is that there is a world of difference between commercial chinese food in the uk and commercial chinese i Hangzhou China. I love em both and they are both completely different. Try steamed buns in China cos you aint getting them in england!!

SF is not bad at the right places! I heard HK is the trend setter for new dishes new flavor and new style of chinese food. YKHM chuukagai is really good!

Yeap, eventhough I've from Singapore where the chinese food rocks, I would not be surprised that you think Hong Kong's chinese food is superb. To me, I place H.K. food in the category, cantonese chinese food. Its nice but I also love the Singapore/Malaysian category of chinese food too.

Looks tasty though. XDD