hmmmm....Food!!!! What we like to eat!

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Damingli85 said:

Is this soy juice any of the following:
1. A blend of soy milk+anything
2. Is it a blend of soy sauce+anything
I can take the top one, but the bottom one is terrible. I mean I can drink vinegar straight but soy sauce? Terrible

Do you think they sell it in America? Because there is a Chinese supermarket about 10-15 miles from my place and if they do get imported then I am going to go find a bottle or two.

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It is #1. It's not ordinary soy milk, which is "dou Jiang" in Chinese. Its Chinese name is "dou zhi" I don't think they sell it in the States, but it won't hurt to check it out.

With my Shanxi gene (my mom), I agree with you 100% on the vinegar part. However, with my Shandong gene (my dad), I would have to disagree with you on the soy sauce part. Soy sauce adds so much flavor to dishes. One simple dish I've tried when I was little was boiling water+soy sauce+sesame oil+chives. My dad made it for my sister and me when my mom was out of town one time (doesn't that sound familiar? ). It's pretty much like drinking diluted soy sauce. It was actually not bad.

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To drink soy sauce in the same amount as my vinegar intake, it is going to take some time. It is just too salty.

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Has anyone ever used Plantains in a Chinese dish?

Plaintains can be best described as a small banana, eaten green as well as ripe

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Hmm? I don't know about other regions, but I don't recall any Cantonese dishes (directly from Guangdong, not involving Nanyang/South East Asia dishes with Cantonese roots) that involves banana let alone plaintain, except maybe some desserts.

And isn't a plantain usually bigger than a banana and often consumed when black?
Maybe plantains refer to a different banana elsewhere, or are you talking about the emperor's banana?
Here, I've seen people throw their black plantains into the microwave and eat it that way.

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sumdud said:

Hmm? I don't know about other regions, but I don't recall any Cantonese dishes (directly from Guangdong, not involving Nanyang/South East Asia dishes with Cantonese roots) that involves banana let alone plaintain, except maybe some desserts.

And isn't a plantain usually bigger than a banana and often consumed when black?
Maybe plantains refer to a different banana elsewhere, or are you talking about the emperor's banana?
Here, I've seen people throw their black plantains into the microwave and eat it that way.

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I brought some the otherday that came from the Phillipines and it had a few Western recipes with the promo brochure. I wasnt to impressed with the dishes and the plaintains sorta tasted like a sweet potato.. The brochure says you can eat them strait when the skin turns black.

THey were smaller than a regular banana.

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bladerunner said:

I brought some the otherday that came from the Phillipines and it had a few Western recipes with the promo brochure. I wasnt to impressed with the dishes and the plaintains sorta tasted like a sweet potato.. The brochure says you can eat them strait when the skin turns black.

THey were smaller than a regular banana.

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I've seen both types, both small ones and big ones. I think they taste the best when you cook them, NOT eating them straight. Plantain is actually good with savory flavor. fried plantain tastes pretty good. Now think of it, ANYTHING fried would taste good

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Heres the Menu for my wife and her groups welcoming to Beijing university , organised by some dept in the University.

Actually it reads like the No5 Dinner Combo for 10- from the Golden Phoenix ( (My local Mom and Pop Chinese Restaurant) but the food tasted quite different to what it tastes like here.

It was held in the Chegze Room Yiyuan Restaurant.

Appertizers

Vegetable Salad
Shredded Goose
Marinated Bran Dough with Peanuts and Black Fungus
Crispy Fish in Hangzhou Style
Jelly Fish Mixed with Turnip
Sauced Beef

Main Dishes

Steamed Bass
Sauteed Shrimps
Bo Ya Tower and Weiming Lake Made of Food
Fired Chinese Brocoli
Beef Stew with Taro
Cumin Mutton
Sauteed Sweet Corn with Pine Nuts
Apple with Honey and Osmanththus SAuce
Scalded Broccoli

Soup
Wild Edible Truffles Soup

Staple Food
Pan Fried Bun Scallion and Chilli oil
Glutinous Rice Balls Stuffed with Coconut and Sugar

Sadly the beverages only consisted of scented tea, Cola Sprite
NO licquor

I arrived for a 7day stay after My wife was there for a month to see how she was getting on, ( Shes gotta another 3months there) during which I had 2meals of peking Duck. The rest of the time my eating consisted of Macdonalds, (sadly there was no apple pie, its substituted with some bean curd thingy). KFC's. and Pizzas, with the occassional Chinese Yoghurt which was pretty good.

Never Tried this Soya Drink as recommended by Vesicles but I went to a Pharmacist, and bought some sleeping potion, for my plane trip back, and hopefully to prevent Jet Lag. The stuffed looked and tasted like Soya Sauce, I took some and slept for about 9hrs

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not sure if this has been asked but has anyone tried dog meat? i tried it once...it doesnt really taste that good

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bladerunner said:

I arrived for a 7day stay after My wife was there for a month to see how she was getting on, ( Shes gotta another 3months there) during which I had 2meals of peking Duck. The rest of the time my eating consisted of Macdonalds, (sadly there was no apple pie, its substituted with some bean curd thingy). KFC's. and Pizzas, with the occassional Chinese Yoghurt which was pretty good.

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I don't believe this! You were there for 7 days and the only Chinese food you had was Peking duck?????? :nono::nono::nono:

You know how much we dream about going back and enjoy some authentic Chinese food? Man, you can just pick a store and walk in and tell them you want their best and enjoy. I am so disappointed......

OK, enough of the jokes. I truly wish you could have chance to enjoy more authentic Northern Chinese food.

bladerunner said:

Never Tried this Soya Drink as recommended by Vesicles but I went to a Pharmacist, and bought some sleeping potion, for my plane trip back, and hopefully to prevent Jet Lag. The stuffed looked and tasted like Soya Sauce, I took some and slept for about 9hrs

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I'm actually glad you didn't try it since it has the potential to ruin your entire trip Yep, it tastes that bad, according to my mom.

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vesicles said:

I don't believe this! You were there for 7 days and the only Chinese food you had was Peking duck?????? :nono::nono::nono:
You know how much we dream about going back and enjoy some authentic Chinese food? Man, you can just pick a store and walk in and tell them you want their best and enjoy. I am so disappointed......
OK, enough of the jokes. I truly wish you could have chance to enjoy more authentic Northern Chinese food.
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My wife who is staying at the international hotel on campus, was getting tired of eating Chinese Food on campus,so I humored her desire to eat European when we were together. Anyway if the authorities will allow her to change her ticket I might join her at the end of her studies and have an extended look in China and then indulge food wise, if I know what to order.
In a way I hope they wont because I really want to go to the Shanghai World Fair

Really surprised she couldnt get her MAC hooked up to the University internet connection so I managed to use someone elses to go online and we ended up buying a LENOVO Laptop for her use

Made the mistake of producing my video camera when visiting T.A. M. Square
and was immediately accosted by beggars. One particular beggar who I felt really sorry for was a elderly woman with her son who had absolutely no eyes.
I was prepared to give her more, but I was uncertain on whether she was genuinely the mother, or they had an arrangment as professional beggars.

Eitherway because he was sightless she could have done him out of the extra money, if I decided to be extremely generous.