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Favorite American-Chinese Cuisine

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  1. Lil Pun

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    What is your favorite dish to eat at an American-Chinese restaurant? I am talking about those places with the buffets that have everything from chicken nuggets to General Tso's chicken on them not the authentic Chinese/Asian cuisine places.

    I like chicken & broccoli, Hawaiian chicken, General Tso chicken, and sesame chicken.

    In my town the best places to get these are:

    Imperial - best chicken & broccoli and egg rolls I have ever eaten

    Dragon & Phoenix - Hawaiian chicken rules there

    Hong Kong/Dragon City - best General Tso and sesame chicken around

    How about you?
     
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  2. Davidoff

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    Sweet and Sour Chicken from Pei Wei is good stuff IMO..
     
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  3. MR. MEOWGI

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    Oriental Gourmet in Clear Lake. I eat there almost every weekend, it's walking distance from my house.

    avocado rolls
    tuna sushi
    summer and spring rolls
    they have this lightly battered baked shrimp that rules
    fried cream cheese puffs
    wonton soup
     
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    I'm actually not the biggest fan of Chinese food, but I LOVE egg rolls and fried rice. Whenever I go out for Chinese, I usually get just egg rolls and fried rice, although I love this one item called beef on a stick. The beef comes with one of those fire crystal things, and it's awesome after toasting the beef over the open flame. A couple of the few regular items I like is spicy beef or chicken, any kind of lo mein, and peanut chicken is pretty good, also.

    Sweet and sour anything pretty much sucks donkey balls...
     
    #4 A-Train, Aug 9, 2006
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    Ever been to a Chinese Buffet place that has stuff like Enchiladas, etc. also? Those places always worry me... :eek:
     
    #5 DanzelKun, Aug 9, 2006
  6. MR. MEOWGI

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    What's funny is that I notice a lot of Asians eating the American food.
     
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    General Tso chicken
     
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    Where is this?

    I like General Tso and Hunan Beef and just plain fried rice and sweet and sour shrimp which I get at August Moon in Dallas...I also love Pei Wei...I usually get the Dan Dan Noodles and lettuce wraps and I'm good...The Sweet and Sour shrimp rockes...
     
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  9. Lil Pun

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    Jonesboro, AR. It's about a 10 hour drive northeat of Houston. If you are a die-hard Chinese fan come on up but I am sure you can find better down there. :)
     
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  10. Buck Turgidson

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    General Tso Chicken

    Found a new place recently - 3 6 9 Cafe next to the Half Price Books & Specs Discout Warehouse on Westheimer & Montrose. Eaten there 3 times I think, everything we've had has been great. Family-owned place, talked to the guy a bit & he's very nice. Gave us free ice cream. General Tso's is very spicy (jalapenos as well as chilis, awesome). Definitely recommend it for cheap lunch or takeout/delivery.
     
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    I've never had General Tso's Chicken from anywhere that I didn't LOVE. I think it's impossible to screw that dish up.

    There was this little place on Braeswood that had the BEST Lemon Chicken I've ever had. The chicken was so tender, you could cut it with a spoon and the lemon sauce was so good, you wanted to just drink it straight.

    Compared to that, I've never had any real good lemon chicken.
     
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    I am Chinese and my favorite American-Chinese food iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis NONE.

    If I have to, I will order the black pepper chicken/beef, Gongpao chicken (peanut chicken as one poster mentioned), or orange chicken from Panda Express. But you can get those things in China as well, although not as popular as here. They are not exactly Americanized Chinese food.

    Fortune cookie, on the other hand, must be an American-Chinese invention. In China, we have the stuff that wraps the paper as cookies. But you don't see fortune cookie there.
     
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    anybody been to that luck village buffet on dairy ashford. that place is off the chain.

    At Kim Son, which I believe is korean, they have this squid and green vegetable dish like a spinach in this brown sauce that I love.

    egg foo yong for chinese and mongolian beef, chicken, or shrimp.
     
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    General Tso at China Star by Univ of Hou is great
     
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    Kim Son started out Vietnamese. Now it has gone so much towards Chinese that it is hard to call it Vietnamese anymore. Additionally, some of them are owned by Chinese now so will even have (mediocre) Dim Sum (the one in Sugar Land for sure).
     
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    I eat a lot more Vietnamese (pho and springrolls) than anything else.

    When we get Chinese, I usually get Beef & Broccoli with steamed rice and egg drop soup.
     
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    potstickers, i suppose.

    i really don't eat much "chinese" food. i prefer vietnamese, korean, japanese, thai as far as food from that (huge) region of the planet goes.
     
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    Honey Glazed Lemon Chicken.

    Nothing can match it.
     
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    Orange beef
    General Tso chicken
    Sweet and sour anything
    broccoli/shrimp combo

    I am a chinese buffet w****.
     
    #19 AntiSonic, Aug 9, 2006
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    BWAHAHAHAHAA!!!
     
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