Do you only eat chinese take out? Or do you prepare chinese food at home?

United States
December 5, 2008 6:59pm CST
Do you only eat chinese from a take out restaurant? Or do you prepare chinese food at home yourself? I absolutely love chinese food. However, I do not have the slightest idea on how to cook chinese food so I have to settle for take out only! My favorite is general tsou's chicken over a bed of fried rice.
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• United States
6 Dec 08
I love chinese but like you I have no idea how to begin making it. Someone once tried to show me how to make a dish and I couldn't get it right no matter how many times I tried. They need a cooking chinese for dummies book!!!
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• United States
6 Dec 08
I would most definitely buy that book!
@bbydollz (114)
• United States
6 Dec 08
I absolutely love Chinese food, and over the years I have learned how to make egg rolls oh and egg drop soup. It really is not that hard to make those at all, now the general tsou chicken is a whole different story I haven't the slightese Idea. I am not to fond of take out Chinese, but I will go to a restaruant and sit down and eat all the Chinese food that I can.
• United States
6 Dec 08
Agreed. I love going to a chinese restaurant which offers a buffet and eating all I can!
• China
10 Dec 08
I'm Chinese~ Welcome to my country,my mom is very good at cooking~~ Hoho~I believe that's the typical Chinese food~~:)
@kellys3ps (3723)
• United States
6 Dec 08
I have never prepared Chinese food at home - I have only eaten Chinese food at restaurants.
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@toddsarm (766)
• Canada
10 Dec 08
I only eat chinese from a take out restaurant
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
2 Jan 09
My wok gets about as much use as my pasta pot. Those are the two pots that I use the most. Chinese foods are easy to make. Egg rolls or wan tans are a pit of a pain to make because I have to make the rappers from scratch. They don't sell them in my town. It's inconvenient, but not the end of the world though. I get good at cooking because of the limited ethnic foods.
• United States
6 Dec 08
I do make chinese food but sometimes just order if we really need to eat and we don't have the convinience of time and place. We stayed in a hotel for a month when we relocated to another state. We ate outside most of the time.I often than not find myslef into chinese or japanese food, well mostly chinese food. We can call if we feel lazy to go out. It was just one call away and I love chinese food..
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@kunking (1118)
• China
6 Dec 08
hi,marcialoyd! certainly i often prepare chinese food at home coz i'm chinese.. i'm glad to see u love chinese food and actually they are healthier diets with lower fat, lower calories than most food..sorry i don't know what general tsou's chicken is...is it a fried chicken? i would recommend the sauted chicken cubes with chili and peanuts...that's what i am fond of.... hope u enjoy ur chinese food..
@Anne18 (11029)
6 Dec 08
We eat take out but not very often, sometimes we buy frozen chinese food from the supermarket, I can cook sweet and sour chicken and rice at home but I do cheat and get the sauce out of a tin or a packet
• China
6 Dec 08
love chinese food too..btw ,im chinese ,lol there so many ways in cooking food. chicken over a bed of fried rice named jirou chaofan
@LaurenInLA (2270)
• United States
6 Dec 08
I love Chinese food but I'm not a good enough cook to make it so that it tastes as good as Chinese takeout. My Grandmother was the best cook that I know and she attempted to make Chinese food once and it was awful. I really wish that I could find some good authentic recipes because I know that restaurant food has a lot of fat and sodium in it.
• United States
6 Dec 08
I have only ate at the restaurants, but it's something I've been meaning to try at home. I know there are recipes on www.foodnetwork.com but I just haven't gotten around to it.