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What Is the Difference Between Orange Chicken and General Tso's Chicken?
Any one remember Gang Sue's Tea Garden?
Hi, I have very fond memories from my childhood of Gang Sue's Tea Garden, run by Gang and Violet Sue. Does anyone know where I might find one of their menus for nostalgic reasons? Thanks!
Lucky Danger, Chinese American Take Out in Pentagon City
Had takeout here twice (this is purely a carry-out operation) and there are some nice choices here. Tried the Orange beef, duck fried rice, catfish with pickled mustard, bamboo with leek, and omel...
Chinese Restaurants in the 19th Century
" . . . While gazing upon Chinese in the 'cheap cellar places' gave tourists a firsthand view of the working poor, elite eateries—generally located in upstairs apartments—were another favorite spot...
Korean-Chinese @ Lee's Garden | Marina - Monterey Peninsula
My reports on Chinese food from my home stomping grounds of Salinas and the Central Coast are few and far between. Mostly because I hate setting myself up for disappointment or paying higher prices...
I've been on a kick to find the best General Tso's chicken in Manhattan
I've been on a kick to find the best General Tso's chicken in Manhattan. My staples have been Wei West and Wonton Noodle Garden. I feel like I've had many trials in between, but so very few, if a...
Butterfly Shrimp with bacon in Ontario
Has anyone seen Butterfly Shrimp with bacon on a Chinese restaurant menu lately? https://thewoksoflife.com/butterfly-shrimp-bacon/
Cooking Sticky Rice in the Microwave
If you follow the Chinese-American tradition of serving sticky rice studded with lop cheong, Chinese bacon, ham, black mushrooms and other goodies as a side (or stuffed into) the holiday turkey, th...
Facsimile of Mariposa Cafe Roast Pork
Last night a group of us from Chowhound (a bakers group originally, now more a food cooking group) got together at Jeffs (our perfect host) to make Lamberts' and Bobbys' Steamed and baked pork buns...
Looking for recipe for Chinese garlic fried chicken
Does anyone have a recipe for Chinese Garlic Fried Chicken. Dave Wong's (Stoickton, CA) has the most best garlic fried chicken that I have ever had. Growing up around Stockton, it was a popular dis...
New Woey Loy Goey in SF Chinatown has re-opened!
Oh Woey Loy Goey, you scared me again! Chinese restaurants were hit particularly hard at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic and many shutdown even before the shelter-in-place orders. This restau...
Boston-style pork fried rice recipe
im from boston area all my life and chinese take out is my favorite food. i moved to the south and cant find comparable chinese food ANYWHERE. does anyone have a recipe for pork fried rice like the...
Mamahuhu by Chef Brandon Jew launches tonight in SF
Eater has the lowdown on Mamahuhu, a new Chinese-American restaurant, from Michelin-starred Chef Brandon Jew. Initially delivery only via Caviar starting tonight, the plan is to open the restaurant...
Cachanilla Chinese Restaurant: Comida China Estilo Mexicali in Pomona
One of the cool things about spending time in Ensenada is learning from a Mexicali-born chef about the influence of the Chinese in his home town. Mexicali has the highest per capita concentration o...
Closure of Lucky Lee's
Eater says it's "dunzo". Did anyone ever try it? Previous discussion of Lucky Lee's" https://www.chowhound.com/post/lucky-lees-framing-entire-cuisine-unhealthy-1082120
Chinese American food: a legit cuisine on its own?
This article pricked my interest. "The hyphenated diaspora foods Chinese created are frequently maligned as inauthentic or watered-down, a narrative that Peter Kim, executive director of Brooklyn's...
New York Style thick egg roll anyone?
Is there anywhere to find the thick skinned , 2 inch wide eggroll found in East Coast chinese places. so far All I have had out here are the skinny thin skinned ones? I like the really junky ones ...
Lucky Lee's framing of an entire cuisine as “unhealthy.”
" . . . I am not without sympathy for Ms. Haspel. She’s just a normal mompreneur who is trying to balance parenting and work while avoiding gluten, dairy, sugar, GMO oils, brown sauces, and anyone ...
Golden Gate Fortune Cookie May Close Due To High SF Rent
Another piece of my childhood memories is threatened. " . . . Chan doesn’t know how much longer he can keep the doors open. When his mother opened the store in 1962, rent was $900 dollars a mont...
The man who has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants, but can’t use chopsticks and doesn’t care for food
Ex-chowhound chandavkl is up to 7,300 Chinese restsaurants.
Good Americanized Chinese Near Downtown
Been searching for years without luck for what I fear is a dying breed and a great guilty pleasure: good Americanized mom and pop style Chinese food. Egg Rolls, Orange Chicken, Shrimp with Lobster...
