What's your favourite Chinese takeaway dish?

RandallFlagg

I lamented a while back that Chinese takeaways don't taste like they used to, BBQ ribs not in the same deep red sauce, sweet & sour sauce lacking pineapple chunk and carrot strips and too sweet, some chop suey lacking water chestnuts, pancake rolls only a 3rd the size they used to be etc,

Despite this nostalgia, I still enjoy a good chinese takeaway. I like beef chow mein with the lovely burnt tasting noodles, pork balls, crispy shredded beef, kung po chicken, yung chow fried rice among others!

What's your favourite dish?

PS guess what we're having for dinner?

Guitar_Slinger

Salt and pepper chips!  Wasn't around in Liverpool when I grew up, but all the takeaways there do them these days, so it seems.

Otherwise, we've given Chinese food a miss for years because it all went a bit meh where we are in London, for the same reasons made by the OP.

Drew_TNBD

Don't really like Chinese food tbh.

chillidoggy

Toss up between Kung Po chicken or Singapore Noodles. I used love the pork balls but our local no longer does them.

lukedlb

Fried shredded beef in spicy sauce. Last time I had it was almost 20 years ago. It remains the food of gods. 

bingefeller

Chicken fried rice.

guitarfishbay

I have a reaction to MSG so I avoid most Chinese Takeaways these days.

BRISTOL86

Pork chow mein and shredded crispy chilli beef. 

RandallFlagg

guitarfishbay said:

I have a reaction to MSG so I avoid most Chinese Takeaways these days.

Do they still use it? 

Dominic

Char Siu Bau  or Prawn Cheung Fun for Dim Sum
  Hokkien Char Kway Teow  for street food

cruxiform

slacker

Hong Kong Sweet and Sour Chicken.  Long boring story to follow. 

Many years ago before I had ever been to a Chinese takeway or restaurant  one of the Mums in the youth group I went to would make sweet and sour chicken. I loved it. So when I started going out with my now wife she suggested a restaurant in Stanmore. So I ordered my favourite, sweet and sour chicken. I got served with these chicken balls with the sauce between the chicken and batter. So I thought that this was proper sweet and sour. 

So fast forward many years and I ordered sweet and sour hong kong style from my local takeaway. It's exactly as I remembered Mrs Ms homecooked version. So for years I thought she wasnt making it properly and I was a Philistine for liking it but it was the proper job. 

TonyR

Kung Po Chicken or Chicken Curry

Hoof

Sweet and sour chickens balls with egg fried rice.

RandallFlagg

Dominic said:

Char Siu Bau  or Prawn Cheung Fun for Dim Sum
  Hokkien Char Kway Teow  for street food

Oooh, get you, don't see these on my local Chinese Delight menu.

guitarfishbay

RandallFlagg said:

guitarfishbay said:

I have a reaction to MSG so I avoid most Chinese Takeaways these days.

Do they still use it? 

Yes and also some restaurants, plus it's in other commercial foods like certain flavours of Pringles and Doritos.

I think most people are fine with it though, just some people get a reaction to it and of course that means the media go crazy over it. 

mike_l

What I can eat from the Chinese is pretty much limited to sweet and sour chicken or pork in batter (no sauce) and plain rice, so them.
It's rare I'll eat a Chinese or any takeaway these days.

Hertz32

Deep fried shredded chilli beef with a side of Duck meat noodles. Anyone in south bucks can rest assured that Ken's Beijing do the best shredded chilli beef I've tasted. 

capo4th

Deep fried squid garlic and chilli, crispy duck, shredded chilli beef. Beef with ginger and spring onion with a special chow mein, a few prawn crackers and a couple of quality bottled lagers.

Drew_TNBD

Why was my post LOLworthy?!

holnrew

The local takeaway where I lived in Somerset did crispy chicken. It was like strips of chicken deep fried in batter then had a sweet and sour sauce poured over. Never mind bacon, if anything could tempt me from vegetarianism it's that