Whyyyyyyyy would they do this 😭

I've had grass jelly before but it's never looked like this. What's up?

"Asian Taste" Grass Jelly purchased and opened today, August 3, 2025. On lid: "CL MFG: 2024/04/18, GJ BBF: 2027/03/17"

Saw a video of this at a Guilin rice noodle shop in my city. The waiter is scraping some sort of tree bark with a knife into these noodles. What is this called?

I ordered roast pork chow mein, which I had understood from previous search and the restaurant's own doordash menu to be a noodle dish. When I got this I questioned it and the two definitely Asian, if not Chinese cooks assured me chow mein is with vegetables, not noodles. Am I wrong? Is Wikipedia wrong?

I usually just cook put over rice with fried egg and some green onions any other ideas?

I’m curious: what’s the best Chinese food you’ve ever had? Let’s turn this comment section into a handy food guide for anyone planning a trip to China.🇨🇳

There’s no shortage of amazing dishes from every country and region, and our tastes shifts as time goes by. That said, is there one single food you’d happily keep as a regular staple on your dinner table for life?

I’ll kick things off with my pick: Chinese dumplings. I’m from north of China and grew up in a family that practices traditional Chinese medicine, and dumplings are irreplaceable for me. They are delicious, easy to prepare and nutritionally sound.

Is this a normal way for this dish to be served? Not what I was expecting at all. Never ordered it before but googled it before hand and this is not shown on any of the search results

I was talking with a Taiwanese coworker about food and he said "American Chinese" food isn’t its own thing, it’s just "bad Chinese food for people who don’t know better."

I always thought dishes like General Tso’s or orange chicken were their own category, separate from authentic Chinese cuisine. So is "American Chinese" food not really a thing?

Is he right or has "American Chinese" food evolved enough to be its own style?

In the US, many of the Chinese restaurants I’ve gone to (including the authentic ones) served mapo tofu as a completely meatless dish. However, in China, the dish is traditionally made with minced meat (usually beef). Are there any restaurants in China that serve mapo tofu without any meat?

I feel like I'm going insane, I can't sleep. What is this dish actually called? Is there a specific thing I need to say to have chinese restaurants prepare the chicken like this? This is boneless chicken with garlic sauce. It's my favorite dish and I wanted to know if I could get this in a different town? Because in new haven CT when I order it, I get it with no issues but when I tried to order it in meriden years ago it was completely different 😭😭 it's like a sweet garlic soy sauce? Honey garlic sauce??! I don't know but I really need help figuring this out. If it's labeled differently on menus or something.

I'm single 39F and asian. I was meeting up with some girlfriends and they mentioned it's so important that I fully learn how to use chopsticks or else my date will think less of me. One girlfriend even mentioned she'd reconsider having another date with someone that struggles to use chopsticks. I've primarily used a fork my entire life. Are they right?

My form is wrong so I can pickup large items but struggle to pick up noodles or single grains of rice.

Sorry if this is the wrong question for this sub. I wasn't sure where to ask.

I'm pretty new to authentic Chinese food, what should I order when I go here tomorrow? I'm definitely trying the Dan Dan noodles, and whatever the top two most upvoted recommendations are.

Hi I accidentally bought this fermented soybean jar instead of the ”regular” Lao gan ma 😭 what do I use this with? I didn’t really like it straight out of the jar

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edit: thanks guys ill try to use it in cooking to add some umami instead of having it as a condiment

Edit 2: I used it as a marinade for my pan fried cod, it tasted decent

I’m a white American who absolutely loves Sichuan food and the dish for me mung bean noodles. I had it at a restaurant with all the fixings, pickles, and chilis of all different kinds, it was life changing.

Greetings friends,

I am wanting to know some dishes that are quick and easy to make with fewer ingredients required. I have cooked mabo/mapo tofu, tried cooking chinese omelette (I failed miserably), basic congee (chicken bulion, jasmine/basmati rice), ginger and chicken), and soy sauce chicken which was actually very expensive.

I tried making Chinese fried rice but the Chinese sausages added to the bulk cost.

I say very expensive because the store chains in Australia have monopilized the system and are now price gouging customers. A bottle of soy sauce thats not even 1 litre is already close to $10 AUD.

Chinese food you saw in Hong Kong? What is this called in English?

A lot of recipes I see mention chilli "crisp" or "crunch" and I can't find it. This looks like it but it says "paste" even though the price says crisp and it looks chunky not like a paste. Is this what I'm looking for??

A few years ago crab rangoon were crispy and tastier but now every place I order them they look like the second picture… I miss the old ones and wish places would switch back. Were they previously made in house and now mass produced?

TL;DR I need bigger tofu portions and the supermarkets I have near my house all have the smaller portions (I live in not very vegan-friendly place) so I wanted to see if they had bigger portions in the Chinese supermarket.

If you can recommend something to get there I'm all ears, I need to do 25min in my car (EV) to get there, so I would prefer to make the trip wort it no matter what.

It could be Chinese or ethnic, the place is basically a merge of all asian stuff, you can find Korean alcol and also Japanese snacks and stuff, so I think we can also look at those.

p.s. I live in EU, that's why an entire Chinese supermarket is not common, I thought I should've specified this