[Connie_Smith]

Really love it

[100 monkeys]

I like Chinese takeaways in England. Not so much Chinese food The 2 are VERY different. The vast majority of the 1.4 billion poeple in China eat vegetable and root soup accompanied by rocks and bird feet.

That being said, some Chinese food is amazing, such as Szechuan food. Very nice.

[Ber]

I like some Chinese food -more the dry dishes than the stuff in sauce though.

[LostFool]

Chinese is OK but I prefer Thai and Vietnamese.

[Andrue]

I like it but don't go out of my way to eat it.

[Seamus Sweeney]

After Indian, Chinese is a close second. Nowadays the budget is a bit more lean - but doesn't stop me adding various cuisine from Tesco when I do the online shop. OK it's microwave meals, apart from the spring rolls in the oven - but their sweet and sour chicken dish for example, at £1.50, along with a couple of spring rolls is nonetheless mouthwateringly tasty.

When it comes to meals for one, Tesco really do excel in quality dishes in both Chinese and Indian, along with the extras if wanting as close to the real deal as possible.

[Alan1981]

I prefer Indian . Most of the Chinese takeaways aeound here tend to drown their food in cooking oil.

[chopsim]

I love Chinese food. I don't buy Indian food because it may say it's 3 chilli peppers hot. According to who? It maybe blow your head off spicy or not at all.

[pugamo]

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Originally Posted by Seamus Sweeney

After Indian, Chinese is a close second. Nowadays the budget is a bit more lean - but doesn't stop me adding various cuisine from Tesco when I do the online shop. OK it's microwave meals, apart from the spring rolls in the oven - but their sweet and sour chicken dish for example, at £1.50, along with a couple of spring rolls is nonetheless mouthwateringly tasty.

When it comes to meals for one, Tesco really do excel in quality dishes in both Chinese and Indian, along with the extras if wanting as close to the real deal as possible.

I only really like the M&S ones but for the price you might as well just get a Chinese takeaway.

[The Wizard]

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Originally Posted by chopsim

I love Chinese food. I don't buy Indian food because it may say it's 3 chilli peppers hot. According to who? It maybe blow your head off spicy or not at all.

The only currys I like are the ones I make myself and I really have to be in the mood to eat Indian food whereas I could eat Chinese food every day. Love it! Especially Cantonese dishes.

I also like sushi but not fussed on Thai food. Too many spices. I don't like anything hot. When I make a chilli it's basically a bolognaise made with peppers.

I have never understood this country's obsession with eating food that blows your mouth apart. I like to taste my food not have my tastebuds shot to pieces with a load of spices. Besides, I find Indian food extremely boring. It's basically curried everything and it all tastes and smells the same. Chinese is far more varied flavours and textures.

Why is it whenever you buy curries from Indian restaurants they never put half the crap that supermarkets chuck in their rice? Cardamom pods, cloves and bay leaves etc. Does my head in having to firk all that crap out of my rice and as the above post says, the heat guide is a joke. Go to Sainsburys and it says medium and it's like a Korma. Go to Asda and a medium will blow your head off. Best stick to making my own.

If I have a curry sauce I like it no hotter than the stuff they serve in the chip shop. Don't see the fun sitting there sweating your bag off, mouth on fire and eyes watering. How can anyone actually enjoy that?

[muggins14]

Yes, and I really miss it (it's not very healthy, nor very diabetic friendly!).

ETA: I once asked a Chinese woman how they managed to remain so slender when many of us would get so fat eating all this Chinese food, her reply was that 'you English' eat way too much of what comes with the rice, when we eat more of the rice and less of the sauces and additional fatty items She said do you really think we eat the food you eat, in the quantities you eat, when you have a Chinese meal/take-away?

Food for thought

[kitty86]

Both of us are massive fans of chinese takeaway and luckily after much searching have found a superb one 5 mins away from our flat. Due to the cost it is more a treat now.

When it comes to Indian it has to be grandmas own.

[FineFettle]

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Originally Posted by muggins14

Yes, and I really miss it (it's not very healthy, nor very diabetic friendly!).

Its not UNhealthy. Chinese do most of cook with Wok, which if you don't use too much oil, and get a good meat and veg balance, can be very healthy...and tasty.

[Seamus Sweeney]

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Originally Posted by pugamo

I only really like the M&S ones but for the price you might as well just get a Chinese takeaway.

Where I live next to the sprawling green fields of Notts, there's a shortage of variety unfortuneately. Average places for fast food delivery - apart from an Indian restaurant that does beautiful food, which they deliver - but by God they are pricey, and a very rare treat.

In terms of Chinese. Back in the 90's, a group of us from work popped into the famous Wong Kei on Wardour Street in Soho - and at the time, they had some group deal for afternoon customers, where it was all you could eat for £5 a head. The best Chinese food I ever had in my life for almost pocket change - even then.

[The Wizard]

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Originally Posted by pugamo

I only really like the M&S ones but for the price you might as well just get a Chinese takeaway.

I treated myself to an M&S food shop a few weeks ago and bought a load of their ready meals and thought for the price the quality was disgusting. Cheaper to eat out. I much preferred the Asda extra special equivalent and they are cheaper too. I think people must just pay for the name. Several of the dishes I bought ended up in the bin and the rest were just Meh! The portion sizes were smaller too. Their beef in red wine was literally like it was in red wine that hadn't been cooked out. The beef stroganoff was just in a bland creamy sauce and the rice was so frangrant it was like someone had poured perfume on it. Other dishes I tried were just bland, watery and tasteless. Was not impressed at all.

[minxymoo]

I love chinese food OP .in fact were having Chinese takeaway tonight.that will be chicken in garlic sauce for me and chicken in ok sauce for the other half.were lucky to have a really nice little chippy round the corner.

[pork.pie]

Rice on a bike... riveting opener!

Oh, and yes... occasionally.

[kitty86]

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Originally Posted by The Wizard

I treated myself to an M&S food shop a few weeks ago and bought a load of their ready meals and thought for the price the quality was disgusting. Cheaper to eat out. I much preferred the Asda extra special equivalent and they are cheaper too. I think people must just pay for the name. Several of the dishes I bought ended up in the bin and the rest were just Meh! The portion sizes were smaller too. Their beef in red wine was literally like it was in red wine that hadn't been cooked out. The beef stroganoff was just in a bland creamy sauce and the rice was so frangrant it was like someone had poured perfume on it. Other dishes I tried were just bland and tasteless. Was not impressed at all.

Why is it whenever you buy curries from Indian restaurants they never put half the crap that supermarkets chuck in their rice? Cardamom pods, cloves and bay leaves etc. Does my head in having to firk all that crap out of my rice and as the above post says, the heat guide is a joke. Go to Sainsburys and it says medium and it's like a Korma. Go to Asda and a medium will blow your head off. Best stick to making my own.

If you ordered pilau rice from the Indian in most cases it would come with those things in the rice.

[pugamo]

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Originally Posted by The Wizard

I treated myself to an M&S food shop a few weeks ago and bought a load of their ready meals and thought for the price the quality was disgusting. Cheaper to eat out. I much preferred the Asda extra special equivalent and they are cheaper too. I think people must just pay for the name. Several of the dishes I bought ended up in the bin and the rest were just Meh! The portion sizes were smaller too. Their beef in red wine was literally like it was in red wine that hadn't been cooked out. The beef stroganoff was just in a bland creamy sauce and the rice was so frangrant it was like someone had poured perfume on it. Other dishes I tried were just bland, watery and tasteless. Was not impressed at all.

I'm not a fan of ready meals in general, but their beef in black bean sauce was nice.

The Asda deli curries from the counter now you mention it are very good. I had a lovely beef in black pepper curry from there once.

[muggins14]

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Originally Posted by FineFettle

Its not UNhealthy. Chinese do most of cook with Wok, which if you don't use too much oil, and get a good meat and veg balance, can be very healthy...and tasty.

Oh absolutely, I have a stir-fry often, I rarely think of it as Chinese food to be honest, it just tastes like stir-fry when I do it It's not something I'd ask for if eating out at a Chinese or having a take-away

I was thinking more of your meat laden in hoisin sauce or sweet & sour, that sort of thing (as in Chinese takeaway, especially). That's partly why I added

Quote:

ETA: I once asked a Chinese woman how they managed to remain so slender when many of us would get so fat eating all this Chinese food, her reply was that 'you English' eat way too much of what comes with the rice, when we eat more of the rice and less of the sauces and additional fatty items She said do you really think we eat the food you eat, in the quantities you eat, when you have a Chinese meal/take-away?

Food for thought

to my post

[The Wizard]

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Originally Posted by kitty86

If you ordered pilau rice from the Indian in most cases it would come with those things in the rice.

Personally I don't like Indian style rice as they never seem to serve the soft long grain rice like they do in Mexican or Chinese restaurants. Even when it says plain boiled rice it's still boiled pilau rice which I find always tastes hard and undercooked. Whenever we've had an Indian takeaway we've almost always made our own rice or called next door to the Chinese for some egg fried rice.

However on the occasions I've had it from an Indian restaurant it's always come served without any of that crap in it. No Indian I've been to whether it be in Stoke or Newcastle or Liverpool I've ever had a cardamom pod, a clove or a bay leaf in my rice so why do supermarkets insist on doing it? I think it totally ruins the dish. I have to sit there trying to firk it all out else you really don't want to be eating a clove or a cardamom pod. Trust me it's disgusting.

[pork.pie]

Complaining about the things that provide the flavour, it's a strange world.

[The Wizard]

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Originally Posted by pork.pie

Complaining about the things that provide the flavour, it's a strange world.

Leaving stuff in dishes that isn't really edible is what I find strange. You wouldn't make a cup of tea and leave the teabag in it would you?

There's not really any need to put all that rubbish in rice. The flavour should come from the main dish when mixed with the rice. You don't see the Chinese or Japanese or Spanish do it. So why do supermarkets always insist on fragrancing rice dishes by chucking in a load of stuff that you are not actually supposed to swallow? I wish they would stop doing it. If I wanted rice that tastes like perfume I'd splash my missus's Jean Paul Gautier on it.

[sweh]

I LOVE Chinese food. It's a standard cuisine I have whenever I travel because it's guaranteed delicious no matter where in the world I am.

[muggins14]

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Originally Posted by The Wizard

Leaving stuff in dishes that isn't really edible is what I find strange. You wouldn't make a cup of tea and leave the teabag in it would you?

Well I do, quite often, but that's just me being forgetful