French vs. Chinese Food

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chinese is better than french at pretty much all tiers of quality up to like 4 star restaurants, where french food is severely [censored] delicious

[Aloysius]

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Dids says:
addmittedly I need to try more authentic chinese

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Shanghai-nese FTW - you will not be dissapointed! I dated a Chinese-American girl who was *very* into her people's food for many years so I got to try alot of stuff... some of the best food I've ever tasted is Shanghai-nese cuisine.

I am not sure what people are defining as "high end" - really the best distinction in my mind is "authentic" vs. "Western-ized" - some of the best Chinese food I've had was super, super cheap (in the States and of course in China).

That being said I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] French food and would be hard-pressed to choose between the 2 (tho prolly Chinese cause of the variety).

-Al

[Kneel B4 Zod]

as a Jew who travels a lot to France for work, I have a lot of experience with both cuisines.

French food: it's not by accident that more expensive restaurants are French or French fusion than any other cuisine. Also, sometimes people don't realize that some really basic dishes are typical French. Steak frites is a hunk of steak and french fries!! You also get to have it with great wine and then great cheese at the end. Totally simple, and totally awesome. Then there are some great simple and hearty stews and such, and the different regions of France have some interesting variety with seafood that you wouldn't normally associate as "French".

of course, there is also escargot and bone marrow and stuff like that.

Chinese: ok, I lied, I've only had Western Chinese food, but I was basically raised on it. I crave it a lot, and it's kind of a guilty pleasure b/c so much of it is fried and coated in heavy sauces that you're not really sure what you're eating. My ex used to make homemade Kung Pao a lot, which was really simple and delicious and more like I picture authentic Chinese food to taste like.

The only 'real' Chinese food I've had was Dim Sum and I couldn't stomach it, and I eat almost everything.

so, they are both good for different cravings I have.

edit: a Chinese friend from B school had his wife cook our group like 15 dishes one night. It was great, but I had no idea what a lot of it was, and her English was pretty bad, and his wasn't much better.

also, blue. this one shouldn't need an explanation.

[The DaveR]

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as a Jew who travels a lot to France for work, I have a lot of experience with both cuisines.


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This is one of the funniest lines I've read.

[Scary_Tiger]

To recap, blue and Chinese, especially real Chinese.

Edit: And it's Gau in Massachusetts/RI/NH/ME, and Tso in NY/CT/VT. My understanding is Tso is much more prevalent in the rest of the country. But I just order General "Gow"'s chicken here in Massachusetts, and General "So"'s chicken most other places. Usually General's Chicken gets the message across. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[punkass]

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The only 'real' Chinese food I've had was Dim Sum and I couldn't stomach it, and I eat almost everything.

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[RiverFenix]

Wasnt there a Sean Penn movie where he goes on a rant about this?

[fmxda]

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The only 'real' Chinese food I've had was Dim Sum and I couldn't stomach it, and I eat almost everything.


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Dim sum is fscking awesome, no idea why you eat everything besides that.