#71

I reckon Chinese food is the best type of food to buffet on.
If I was going to go to a Chinese buffet I would have:

  • duck pancakes
  • Sui mai
  • mini spring rolls
  • crispy chilli squid
  • crispy chilli beef
  • mushrooms
  • seaweed
  • lots of Hoi sin and satay sauce

I really miss the Chinese buffet round the corner from my flat in oxford where you could fill up a box for a fiver.

Also, the Chinese food in China was the best local food I’ve had in any country. Would go back just for the food.

Marked it a 9 because takeaway doesn’t work as well the next day as leftover local Indian does.

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#72

The Manchurian Crispy Lamb from the Jade Fountain in Sawston is probably the most delicious single dish I’ve ever had from a restaurant in this country

#73

So many bad opinions ITT

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#74

9/10.

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#75

Sorry should have given you advance warning this thread was coming so you could plan your essay.

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#76

Special chow mein
egg fried rice
spring rolls (mini veggie)
prawn toast
prawn crackers
cheeky chips if someone else is with me

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#77

Firm agree with this.

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#78

some of the best parts.

literally me:

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#79

Had an amazing spicy szechuan tofu thing the other day. Just chillis, chilli oil, tofu and rice. Perfect.

This place in Nottingham is amazing too ;

I was put off by Chinese food for a while as it turned out my shitty hometown actually had a really good Chinese takeaway, so when I moved to Nottingham a lot of places I tried (including restaurants) didn’t hit the spot.

#80

Pigs ears served in the same style as pulpo a feira is one of the best things I’ve eaten in Spain.

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#81

As others have said, bit hard to judge because of the huge diversity. Of course, when I was in Beijing…

If we’re going on UK Cantonese style it’s a 7, but it can easily vary from 5 to 9.

I honestly quite like the Chinese chippy style where you get half rice, half chips. Think this might be a NW England thing though?

Poll: half rice, half chips

  • Normal
  • Abhorrent

0 voters

#82

used to have pigs ear, olive oil and pimenton toasted sandwiches a lot after one of my classes last year <3 on par or better than bacon sangers.

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#83

Never really understood people who go all squeamish about liver or patΓ© or whatever but will happily tuck into a steak or ham.

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#84

Just chips. Salt & chilli chips.

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#85

I always ADORE chips from a Chinese takeaway.

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#86

Chinese takeaway - objectively 1/10, but sometimes I crave it.
Dim sum restaurants in the UK - 6/10
Dim sum restaurants in Hong Kong - 8/10
Hot pot (both Sichuan and Cantonese style) - 9/10
The TV’s homemade mapo tofu - TEN OUT OF TEN
(Taiwanese bubble tea - also 10/10)

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#87

Would choose Indian, Pizza, Mexican over it.
I take it we’re not including Vietnamese either which is slightly better imho

#88

Is Vietnam in China? Well, is it?

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#89

Spice bag

  • Yes
  • No
  • What?

0 voters

#90

Only a 6 from me. Could well have been a 7 or maybe even an 8 if a) China Town II, just round the corner from me, hadn’t closed last year. I haven’t found another decent Chinese takeaway close to my house, and also b) I hadn’t had an absolutely TERRIBLE Chinese meal in a restaurant in Spain (or maybe it was France) about 10/15 years ago. I subsequently found out that while a lot of our takeaways seem bad, on continental Europe back then they were terrible. Also, at least one point docked off for MSG.