Why is it that any time you order something off of a Chinese menu, it'll be like 'blahblahblah CHICKEN' but when you get it 90% of it'll be some sliced carrots, green peppers, onions, celery and whatever else? Shouldn't it be 'blahblahblah VEGETABLE' (which is another item on the menu anyway) if that's the highlight? Why the fuck is everything some kind of vegetable stir fry and the only difference is the sauce and if it's noodles or rice?
>>22187496That's why you're supposed to just stick with orange chicken. They give you a big ass container full of orange chicken just like you asked for with no filler bullshit.
>>22187496obviously because meat is the premium ingredient here. vegetables are cheaper, rice and noodles are WAY fucking cheaper. get some kind of shrimp meal from a shitty chinese restaurant and it’s a travesty. you’ll be lucky to get 8
>>22187509orange chicken is for children
>>22187515Okay, have a nice time eating your adult vegetarian meal.
>>22187496Because the "blahblahblah" describes the vegetables that come with the chicken.
Why is it that any time you order something off of a western food menu it'll be like blahblahblah roast chicken, but when you get it 90% it'll be some mashed potatoes and green beans and gravy and a dinner roll and whatever else? Shoudn't it be blahblahblah vegetable?
>>22187524Not always. You can order "roast pork" and it'll still be 75% vegetables.
>>22187496They just don’t like you
>>22187529>things that didn't happen but you posted anyway because you thought it made a good point
>>22187496>>22187509>>22187510>>22187517vegetable are tasty and vastly improve the dish
>>22187537I don’t disagree, I love the vegetables, but a stingy restaurant won’t keep it balanced.
>>22187496Eat your veggies, lard-ass. The veggies are part of the meal. Choose something with a sauce, veggies, and style of preparation you enjoy.
>>22187542WHERES THE MEAT? I swear the Chinese government is trying to make us weak by withholding protein
>>22187542If it's supposed to be a vegetable dish, call it a vegetable dish. It's not about whether vegetables are good or not, it's the false advertising. It's like calling a ceasar salad a raw egg. Like yeah it's got a fucking egg in it but the highlight is the lettuce.
>>22187567>false advertisingyou cannot expect a chinese person to care about this lol
>>22187577Maybe not, but authentic chinese food tends to be more than just mixed vegetables with 6 small chunks of meat in it.
>>22187496jalapeno chicken + bbq pork combo is the only way to order mom & pop takeout chinese food. dip the dry pork in the leftover sauce and it's bomb. quit being a snob at fast food
>>22187578first result for an average meal in china on jewgle
>>22187583I mean yeah, this proves my point, you can see how the ratio is a hell of a lot less unbalanced.
>>22187586chinese people don't eat or expect meat to encompass 90% of every meal of every day like fatass americans do
>>22187589Anon the meal you posted at me has about as much meat as vegetable, then a large amount of noodles and broth, and some dumplings and sauce on the side. It is not 90% vegetables, which is what this thread is specifically complaining about.
>>22187586my point was it looks to be about 6 small chunks of meat with noodles, vegetables, and dumplings(?) lol
>>22187592>>22187591
>>22187591i'm not the anon who posted that. just trying to get through your falseflagging faggot opinion that the complaint you have is less about the cuisine and more about you being a fatass american that can't have your veggies unless the meat content rivals it, which is not how most asian cultures eat
>>22187595I'm a a skinny fucker who wants chicken when I order chicken, not a fuck ton of sliced bellpeppers and a couple chunks of onion. The mushrooms were good though. Like you have entirely misconstrued the idea of this thread to "American HATE all vegetables!" when the point is just that American Chinese food is almost always completely fucked on ratios. It's not like real Chinese food, and the issue isn't that it HAS vegetables, it's that the dish advertised as being meat-based is going to have a minimal amount of meat. If this thread subject said some shit like "German Chinese Food" you wouldn't be intentionally misreading it like this, guaranteed.
>>22187600> Like you have entirely misconstrued the idea of this thread to "American HATE all vegetables!" when the point is just that American Chinese food is almost always completely fucked on ratios. It's not like real Chinese food,>American Chinese food>It's not like real Chinese food,
>>22187602It's not. This pic here >>22187583 proves my point on that. Now you're making an argument that's equivalent to "American spaghetti is just like Italian spaghetti bolognese" or "American pizza is just like Italian pizza" which you know is a fat load of horseshit. American Chinese food is Americanized.
But guise we took Chinese food and impwoved it!
>>22187603>Now you're making an argument that's equivalent to "American spaghetti is just like Italian spaghetti bolognese" or "American pizza is just like Italian pizza"no my point is that you're a ignorant bordering on illiterate faggot that thinks chinese food should acquiesce to your tastes because YOU think something that has the word "chicken" or "beef" in it means that's all it consists of, when the rest 99% of the world who orders chinese food understands that's not the case, because asian food =/= people eating mostly meat every meal of every dayjust please slit your wrists. or at the least stick to your chicken nuggies and outback steakhouse if you can't handle veggies with your food unless the ratio is 10/1
>>22187615>Chinese food should acquiescence to your tastesMore like the thread is about how all Americanized, not authentic, Chinese food is just vegetable stir fry in sauce even if it claims to contain meat.>99% of the rest of the world99% of the rest of the world orders American-style Chinese food too?
>>22187546Follow the meat, anon.
The crazy part of this eating meat = being fat argument people keep trying to make is that meat isn't even that calorie dense, it's shit like carbs and sugar that makes people fat. The fucking rice and probably the sauce is the most calorie-dense part of anything Chinese.
>>22187624>it's shit like carbs and sugar that makes people fat.that contributes but so does eating a lot of refined fat with it too. breaded and deep fried oily meat with sugar sauce is pretty calorie dense.
>>22187626It's a pretty big leap to assume all meat is automatically fried.
>>22187509My local place gives you the fried meat chunks and then the orange sauce or sweet and sour or whatever it is on the side. I guess so it doesn't get soggy.
>>22187542>George likes his chicken spicy
>>22187628yea i didn't say it all is but that makes up a big part of what people are eating when they get chinese food
>>22187509>orange chickeng-tso or you're fucking up.
>>22187615nah, anon.you're the one in the wrong.their point was that it should contain more meat, not that it should be all meat.you're being a silly little faggot and need to remember that trix are for kids.
>>22187615trvke'd
>>22187615?>>22187496As a demichink, I've always been confused by Americanized Chinese food for this exact reason.. You get beef noodles in HK and that's pretty much all you get: beef and noodles. Small bits of yu choy/gai lan here or there and green onions but otherwise, no other veg. You order beef noodles in America and you get beef and noodles and broccoli and carrot and snow peas and onion and mushrooms and peppers and so on and so forth.I like Americanized Chinese food but it's very confusing that a culture which actively avoids veg would get restaurant food that has it injected into the dishes artificially like that. >>22187510Yeah, but you can just leave them out. Chinese meals have a main and 37 vegetable sides. Chinese American meals have all the veg in one dish, as though every menu item is cap cay (a stir fry of mostly mixed vegetables and some meat)
>>22187618>99% of the rest of the world orders American-style Chinese food too?Dream on.
>American Chinesethis is an oxymoron
>>22187777what is europe? a menage a troi?
>>22187777>this is an oxymoronNo it's not, it's just what Americans think Chinese food is.
>>22187777Checked, but if you know anything about chinese food, a lot of Chinese-American food is not as “inauthentic” as people tend to think. A lot of them come from cantonese banquet dishes but with much more sweetness and more meat
>>22187784>but with much more sweetnessTHIS is the reality of American Chinese food.
>>22187496My mom got a sesame chicken recipe from some gooks that owned a gook restaraunt. Shit is the cat's meow.
>>22187791Is that the secret ingredient? How do you cut the meow out of a cat?
>>22187496Get General Tso's. 99% dog 1% peppers.
>>22187911I’ve surprisingly never had general tso’s but I thought it was always chicken
>>22187496Learn to make it home. I mastered sweet and sour pork.
>>22187917All Chinese restaurants serve strays.
>>22187926I can make it at home but the sauces can be pretty work intense if you're making it from scratch. Real pain in the ass to do orange chicken for example. So sometimes you want to be lazy, which is why takeout exists in the first place.
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>>22187935where muh eggrolls nigga?
>order something beef>get 3 2" long strips of shoe leather
>>22187496Maybe your shitty chinese place does but mine is great.
>>22187622I love fat bitches so much
>>22187546I count like 20 pieces of meat there just on the surface and you can't see the rest of the bowlBoggles my mind that you would see that and cry that there is no meat
>>22187946Go away Corey you're an embarrassment.
>>22187515If you're feeding your children orange chicken you need to have your children taken away from you.
>>22187935I miss American chinese food so much. In Japan 中華料理 is just this kind of crap.Give me a big fucking soggy box of lemon chicken (they don't even use those little white boxes here!)
>>22189449that's really dramatic
