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Originally Posted by CRXguy
Ummm, that's fake Malaysian.
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Face it, most ethnic restaurants around these parts in some one way geared toward serving the western palatte and therefore are fake or offer less daring or unique cuisine.
Real Chinese Food for dinner -> you really shouldn't try unless you have a huge amount of people because it's designed to be served banquet style and you can only appreciate all various dishes when you have a lot of people. It can also be very expensive with interesting things like Shark Fin soup, abalone, etc.
The reason why there is so much "fake" chinese food designed for the western palatte is that it's been designed to suit the "complete individual meal" idea of western convenience.
IE: when you go out for dinner, you order lets say, the steak. You might get a salad, some pasta on the side, and that's it. The guy next to you orders his own individual meal, maybe the Chicken or something.
Fake Chinese food really is organized into feeling like a portion that fits into a limited "individual" meal. You get your bit of rice, meat (ginger beef, pork, etc.), maybe some noodles, a handful of brocolli, etc. And you're done.You've had your variety and it feels like a standard meal.
Real Chinese food isn't supposed to be eaten that way. It's comes in large portions over various courses served slowly over time and to many people and you share it communally. More like old European style banquets.
I really don't know what to suggest to you except bring a large group of people and ask them for one of the many course set dinners that should be on the chinese menu (often there are two) and get them to explain them to you. I can't recommend any specific dishes because they won't be "complete" and will need to be complemented by other things and it will just snowball. . .
Still, being Chinese, I prefer western food like ginger beef haha.
