Sesame oil

[walrus]

I can honestly say the best food I ever ate was in China. The layered flavors are amazing. I brought home a couple recipes one of which required “champagne vinegar” I’ll be honest I didn’t even know there was such a thing but it’s flavor profile is nothing like “vinegar”. So that particular dish used champagne vinegar and sesame oil along with 15 other things. When I sat down to eat it I almost laughed how good it was. Never before had I cooked something with such layered flavors. Of course I lost the damn recipe but damn that shit was good, pretty much on par with “true” Chinese cuisine which is much different than the many small Chinese restaurants all over the us, which I have to say aren’t horrible, just not real

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Good points walrus. I wish I could try some of that champagne vinegar. I used to buy from a Chinese store in Chinatown in Malaysia a kind of Chinese vinegar called Chinkiang.... It was really delightful. I also really love fish sauce that brown colored sauce you get from Vietnam or Thailand it really enhances dishes.

Ask for Chinese restaurants in the US, it is just like you say: while I was teaching a class of 29 mainland Chinese students back in Kuala Lumpur, I printed out the Chinese menu from my local Chinese restaurant in New Jersey which had the dishes in Chinese and in English

I will always remember for the rest of my life I can never forget when I called on some of the students to read the names in Chinese of the dishes on the menu!!! The entire classroom was laughing and completely mystified about what all those dishes were because they had never heard of any of those before and swore to me that they don't even know what it is and they don't have it in China

You know nonsense like general tso's chicken hahaha unbelievable

[walrus]

Good points walrus. I wish I could try some of that champagne vinegar. I used to buy from a Chinese store in Chinatown in Malaysia a kind of Chinese vinegar called Chinkiang.... It was really delightful. I also really love fish sauce that brown colored sauce you get from Vietnam or Thailand it really enhances dishes.

Ask for Chinese restaurants in the US, it is just like you say: while I was teaching a class of 29 mainland Chinese students back in Kuala Lumpur, I printed out the Chinese menu from my local Chinese restaurant in New Jersey which had the dishes in Chinese and in English

I will always remember for the rest of my life I can never forget when I called on some of the students to read the names in Chinese of the dishes on the menu!!! The entire classroom was laughing and completely mystified about what all those dishes were because they had never heard of any of those before and swore to me that they don't even know what it is and they don't have it in China

You know nonsense like general tso's chicken hahaha unbelievable

To be fair though in Boston, NYC, and many areas around the country it is possible to obtain food very similar to what one would eat in China. In the “China town areas” and elsewhere. Just not at all the corner Chinese restaurants on every corner.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Yeah true I had some really authentic Chinese food in flushing Queens

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​a bat?

[NoSavingByTheBell]

​a bat?

Yep. A Covid 19 Sesame Bat.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Good points walrus. I wish I could try some of that champagne vinegar. I used to buy from a Chinese store in Chinatown in Malaysia a kind of Chinese vinegar called Chinkiang.... It was really delightful. I also really love fish sauce that brown colored sauce you get from Vietnam or Thailand it really enhances dishes.
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Ask for Chinese restaurants in the US, it is just like you say: while I was teaching a class of 29 mainland Chinese students back in Kuala Lumpur, I printed out the Chinese menu from my local Chinese restaurant in New Jersey which had the dishes in Chinese and in English

I will always remember for the rest of my life I can never forget when I called on some of the students to read the names in Chinese of the dishes on the menu!!! The entire classroom was laughing and completely mystified about what all those dishes were because they had never heard of any of those before and swore to me that they don't even know what it is and they don't have it in China

You know nonsense like general tso's chicken hahaha unbelievable

To be fair though in Boston, NYC, and many areas around the country it is possible to obtain food very similar to what one would eat in China. In the “China town areas” and elsewhere. Just not at all the corner Chinese restaurants on every corner.

Just curious, are you into hot pot?

[walrus]

Good points walrus. I wish I could try some of that champagne vinegar. I used to buy from a Chinese store in Chinatown in Malaysia a kind of Chinese vinegar called Chinkiang.... It was really delightful. I also really love fish sauce that brown colored sauce you get from Vietnam or Thailand it really enhances dishes.
U
Ask for Chinese restaurants in the US, it is just like you say: while I was teaching a class of 29 mainland Chinese students back in Kuala Lumpur, I printed out the Chinese menu from my local Chinese restaurant in New Jersey which had the dishes in Chinese and in English

I will always remember for the rest of my life I can never forget when I called on some of the students to read the names in Chinese of the dishes on the menu!!! The entire classroom was laughing and completely mystified about what all those dishes were because they had never heard of any of those before and swore to me that they don't even know what it is and they don't have it in China

You know nonsense like general tso's chicken hahaha unbelievable

To be fair though in Boston, NYC, and many areas around the country it is possible to obtain food very similar to what one would eat in China. In the “China town areas” and elsewhere. Just not at all the corner Chinese restaurants on every corner.

Just curious, are you into hot pot?

Oh snap I had my first true hot pot in Shanghai China with a lovely young couple who took us out to eat. They ordered everything, lamb, beef, chicken endless veggies with that spiced up broth. Damn that was good shit. I think I preferred the lamb but it was all delicious. Cool how you are kinda making it yourself. What a great couple they were. Friendly as hec and asked very interesting questions about the US. The gentleman kept saying “I love my country I just can’t take the government.” Sadly he passed away. I guess he was hitting the booze very heavy. I remember he had two beers with dinner but in China the domestic beers are the size of the big colt 45 bottles they sell in the bodegas. Anyway, memories just struck me but yeah hot pots are the shit.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

"Hot Pot in Shanghai"

by Walrus

The old gentleman and his wife
Took us out for hot pot
I'll remember this all my life
That dinner in that nice spot

The lamb was the best
But it was all really nice
I ate up all the rest
And the old man drank beer twice

[Beanz]

Used a little sesame oil for griddling our tenderstem broccoli yesterday. Jubbly.