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fantasycurse42

fantasycurse42

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It's 1200 degrees here so we ordered in, had Chinese food. Normally we order from a specific spot, but they're on vacation, so we tried something new. 

New place was great, much pricier, but you could taste the difference.

Curious of a few things:

1) Do you have different places you order from? Is there a price difference between them?

2) When ordering Chinese food, what's the typical cost per person in your house (in example; there are four of you, the order totals $48, $12 per person)?

3) True or false; cheap Chinese food has the ability to be as good as more expensive Chinese food?

 
1.  Yes.  Depends on what we want.  Some places have better eggrolls va egg foo yung vs boiled beef, etc. 

2.  $40ish for a family of 4 maybe more if we take out from a higher end joint.  

3.  You get what you pay for.  Higher end joints use better rice and cuts of meat.  

 
1) All the cheap Chinese places around here are the same so it doesn't matter but typically go to the same cheap place. (there is a cheap place near my work that is nicer than the rest though)

2) Not really sure. Mostly get lunch at the cheap place and it's dirt cheap for the specials. Had my son run out and get me a lunch special today. Enough food really for 2 meals and it was maybe $7

3) We have a really nice real Chinese place here. It's way better than the typical grab-n-go stuff. So, false.

 
1. Places that will deliver generally only vary in price by around +/-$3 (ie cheap stuff)

2. I don't order for deliver or take out, but $12 per dish/person sounds about right albeit a tad on the high end.

3. Very False. Find a Chinese seafood restaurant and see how much a abalone dish goes for.

 
We only get Chinese food maybe 4 or 5 times a year, always from the same place. Costs about $20 for the 2 of us.

 
I have a friend who is convinced that all the cheap Chinese restaurants are set up to spy on Americans under the guise of cheap food.  I'm talking about those places where they have the 12x12 pictures on he walk illuminated by fluorescent light.  Think about it, it's a perfect front, every town in America has one, so they never look out of place yet there are never any people who actually eat there.  

The same guy also told me that he is preparing for the apocalypse and that when it does, he plans to blow up all the credited in and out of Vermont, so he along with his vermontian bretherenr will finally rule the world 

 
1) had a go to place but seems something has changed so switching it up lately.  Will also grab different stuff for lunch 

2) maybe $10/person.  I usually order 2 meals (like general chicken with fried rice and egg roll) and maybe an extra pint of something.  Usually will feed 2-4 people plus lunch or dinner the next day

3) I don't think we have cheap / expensive tiers in Michigan.   There basically like Panda Express or whatever that's Fast Food Chinese,  mom and pop places, and PF Changs

 
1) Yes, but I certainly have a preferred spot.  The price difference is negligible.

2) Around $10 per person

3) Kinda true.  I'd lean yes depending on where you are.

 
mr roboto said:
Horrible. 

I wont eat fake Americanized Asian food. For that reason I don't eat Chinese. But Thai - I'm very much into Thai. 
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Twin cities area right?  Try the tea house in golden valley or grand szechuan in bloomiington for legit szechuan style cooking.  They have a menu for the round eyes and one with the good stuff.  Huang chung in dinkytown and hong kong noodle have good cantonese style food. Yangtzee in golden valley for solid dim sum. My mom is chinese and picky as heck and she said these places are pretty close.  We also visit hong kong every few years and these places are kind of comprable.  

 
snore said:
Twin cities area right?  Try the tea house in golden valley or grand szechuan in bloomiington for legit szechuan style cooking.  They have a menu for the round eyes and one with the good stuff.  Huang chung in dinkytown and hong kong noodle have good cantonese style food. Yangtzee in golden valley for solid dim sum. My mom is chinese and picky as heck and she said these places are pretty close.  We also visit hong kong every few years and these places are kind of comprable.  
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Evergreen is solid in S Minneapolis on Eat St

 
the moops said:
Evergreen is solid in S Minneapolis on Eat St
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Will have to check it out. So many places I want to try on eat street however I if I am in the area, I just automatically go to quangs. Its like they have a tractor beam pointed at my belly.  

 
snore said:
Twin cities area right?  Try the tea house in golden valley or grand szechuan in bloomiington for legit szechuan style cooking.  They have a menu for the round eyes and one with the good stuff.  Huang chung in dinkytown and hong kong noodle have good cantonese style food. Yangtzee in golden valley for solid dim sum. My mom is chinese and picky as heck and she said these places are pretty close.  We also visit hong kong every few years and these places are kind of comprable.  
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Thanks. :blackdot:  we will check these out. 

You in the metro?

 
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fantasycurse42 said:
1) Do you have different places you order from? Is there a price difference between them?

2) When ordering Chinese food, what's the typical cost per person in your house (in example; there are four of you, the order totals $48, $12 per person)?

3) True or false; cheap Chinese food has the ability to be as good as more expensive Chinese food?
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Living in the Styx, there's only one decent-ish place, we always order from there.

$12 per person is about right. But, then I always get an order of their chicken wings, because they are the greatest chicken dish I ever had. Battered and deep fried- perfect. I can eat a dozen, no problem.

I'd say False, depending on where you live. Couple weeks ago, my wife and I went to SF and had some great dim sum for about $35-40, which is cheap there. It was great. Little hole in the wall mom&apoptosis place. In big cities, cheap can still be good. In middle America suburbs, you get what you pay for.

 
Just checked out the Evergreen and Grand Szechuan menus.  I don't work far from Grand Szechuan so I'm gonna have to check it out.

 
I'm thinking some of you twin cities guys ought to do a chinese food cornhole

 
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I am a big fan of Chinese food. I reside in So cal--but I also am in Vegas a lot.  I almost always go to take out places when I go to Chinese restaurants.   When I get a "fix" for Chinese food--I generally find that it's the sodium that I'm craving.  I generally like to go to take our places where they have a lot of their food on display in warming trays so that I can see how the food looks in regards to the cut of meats, how the sauces that they are in look..etc..  I've personally found one constant when it comes to my satisfaction when it comes to eating this kind of food. If the food looks "too shiny"-I always go to a different restaurant.   Good quality ingredients should not need to be soaking in a shiny film of oil to taste good.   If the food is shiny--it's probably lower quality ingredients--and more likely than not--the food will be soo oily that you will get that heavy, drowsy feeling after eating it.   I find that one should be able to find great Chinese food pretty easily for less than $10-12 per plate for a take out place.   

 
fantasycurse42 said:
It's 1200 degrees here so we ordered in, had Chinese food. Normally we order from a specific spot, but they're on vacation, so we tried something new. 

New place was great, much pricier, but you could taste the difference.

Curious of a few things:

1) Do you have different places you order from? Is there a price difference between them?

2) When ordering Chinese food, what's the typical cost per person in your house (in example; there are four of you, the order totals $48, $12 per person)?

3) True or false; cheap Chinese food has the ability to be as good as more expensive Chinese food?
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No. One place 

$10/person 

False. You get what you pay for

 
On an adults only order, we probably spend between $15-$20/person. Egg rolls, maybe a soup, lo mein, ribs on occasion, plus a couple mains. Plenty of food leftover for the next day.

Plus it's not really a successful delivery order unless you've convinced the fortune cookie guy that there are more people eating than there actually are.

Your second question really depends on what you're going for. If I'm getting something heavily Americanized, like General Tsos, the cheap stuff can definitely be "better". Just like how a Big Mac can be preferred over a real burger on a particular day. 

 
I judge every chinese resto by their general tso chicken. 

if you cant pass that test, you're not worth my time/money

 
Important to note that my experience here in NY is considerably different from most (not all) locations. Namely, chinese food in general is better than in most places, especially say DC or LA (and don't get me started on anywhere in the south).  Hell, around here there is a full on underground economy whereby the staff for chinese places (from take out to full on restaurants) are transported in vans from Brooklyn and Flushing to their respective places of work. 

1) Do you have different places you order from?

A couple that we rotate. Some will do one or two dishes better than another but not a huge difference overall.

Is there a price difference between them?

Not really.  There are a few places that don't deliver which use better quality ingredients and go for a more upscale experience - the prices are greater but often worth it. 

2) When ordering Chinese food, what's the typical cost per person in your house (in example; there are four of you, the order totals $48, $12 per person)?

What it should be? 10 bucks a person

What it is? 15-20 bucks because we order way too much.

3) True or false; cheap Chinese food has the ability to be as good as more expensive Chinese food?

For some dishes perhaps. And the differential between ok and really good chinese is probably a smaller delta than with other cuisines... but again, the places where there is a significant increase in price and those places usually are more in house vs delivery, you can certainly tell the difference in quality. 

 
too many questions to answer.  have a cheap place near me but I'll drive the 15 minutes to grab Pei Wei over them any day.

 
Koya said:
Important to note that my experience here in NY is considerably different from most (not all) locations. Namely, chinese food in general is better than in most places, especially say DC or LA (and don't get me started on anywhere in the south).  Hell, around here there is a full on underground economy whereby the staff for chinese places (from take out to full on restaurants) are transported in vans from Brooklyn and Flushing to their respective places of work. 

1) Do you have different places you order from?

A couple that we rotate. Some will do one or two dishes better than another but not a huge difference overall.

Is there a price difference between them?

Not really.  There are a few places that don't deliver which use better quality ingredients and go for a more upscale experience - the prices are greater but often worth it. 

2) When ordering Chinese food, what's the typical cost per person in your house (in example; there are four of you, the order totals $48, $12 per person)?

What it should be? 10 bucks a person

What it is? 15-20 bucks because we order way too much.

3) True or false; cheap Chinese food has the ability to be as good as more expensive Chinese food?

For some dishes perhaps. And the differential between ok and really good chinese is probably a smaller delta than with other cuisines... but again, the places where there is a significant increase in price and those places usually are more in house vs delivery, you can certainly tell the difference in quality. 
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I will be expecting at least 1-2 specific recommendations in NYC, we love Asian food and we tend to gravitate towards Thai however I would love some NYC Chinese food...the best I have ever had was actually the Commerce Casino in Los Ang where they do a strip steak Honk Kong style and the chef was from HK/NYC so I wasn't surprised it's the goods.

 
We are in a smaller, vacation city so not too many options.  There is, however, one good one - a NY-style chinese place (i.e. not traditional dim sum or anything). We usually order enough for dinner then at least a lunch or two.  My wife always gets an entree, I get this special shrimp friend rice thing (off menu order, it's spicy and huge). Then egg rolls and wontons or dumplings.  Comes to about 30 bucks with a few bucks to the take out girl. 

 
Ministry of Pain said:
I will be expecting at least 1-2 specific recommendations in NYC, we love Asian food and we tend to gravitate towards Thai however I would love some NYC Chinese food...the best I have ever had was actually the Commerce Casino in Los Ang where they do a strip steak Honk Kong style and the chef was from HK/NYC so I wasn't surprised it's the goods.
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you want REALLY good Chinese? Go to Flushing, queens. No kidding.  

Take the 7 train and have an authentic (or more authentic at least) sit down, or check out the asian food court at the mall (its unlike anything I've seen - like 25 different asian places, a lot of authentic really good options from noodles to seafood to yeesh, a ton of options. 

FWIW, Flushing is arguably the most vibrant part of the entire city.  Streets are HOPPING.  Oh, and residential rates on new construction rival some of the newer hip nabes in Brooklyn, it's crazy.

 
culdeus said:
Cavemen had a palate for msg, cornstarch, and corn syrup?
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Especially in the better places around here, they will have none of the first and not too much of the latter two.  With a number of options that have none of the above.  Whole fish dishes, sauteed options that are not breaded, various noodle dishes.

What I don't like is the proliferation of fusion places especially for higher end sit down dining.  How about great sushi, or great thai, or really good authentic chinese?  NAW, we will do ALL of it, just meh all across the board. 

 
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