What is your favorite Chinese takeout menu item?

[kanerf]

I love a good fried rice and pork egg rolls. Pork spring rolls too when I can find them.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

The town where I grew up had a phenomenal Chinese restaurant and beef chow fun was the specialty. It's pretty much impossible to find here unless I want to drive into the city and put in an advance order with one of the two places I've heard of that make it. Moo goo gai pan is another fave, but I only know of one place in the area that has it on the menu, and it's actually a Chinese buffet (a good one) that's over an hour drive. None of the place up here make good egg foo young, so that's also a no. So, my average go-to for take out where we live (not necessarily all of this, but it's what I've come to trust)...

- Egg rolls/spring rolls
- Dim Sum/potstickers/steamed dumplings
- Crab rangoon
- Some kind of lo mein (usually beef or pork)
- wonton soup
- sweet and sour chicken

 

[TippyThomas]

Is "most of them" an option?

 

[CynBeth]

Usually when we carry in Chinese food we get some different dishes plus veggie egg rolls and white and fried rice to have for 3 or 4 nights. We alternate but tend to have Chicken Chow Mein, Beef Lo Mein, either Orange Chicken or Lemon Chicken, and either Beef with Vegetables or Chicken with Vegetables. Sometimes get Moo Shoo Vegetable or something else. I also am one who likes duck sauce on my egg roll.

 

[lynxstch]

Sweet and sour shrimp or orange chicken

 

[LilyWDW]

Crab Rangoon
Hot and Sour Soup
Cashew Chicken
Sweet and Sour Chicken

 

[SandyinMonterey]

General Tso Chicken and pan fried dumplings.

 

[lovin'fl]

I like steamed dumplins and, either, shrimp lo mein or Kung pao chicken or szechuan shrimp.

Husband likes crab rangoon and, either, sesame or generals tso or orange chicken.

 

[NYCgrrl]

What is your favorite Chinese takeout menu item?

Oh dear, guess I can’t say everything .

Right now I’m loving Singapore mei fun and red braised pork. I’m apt to change my mind at the drop of a noodle

 

[Deb]

Are you going to make me choose?

wonton soup
har gow
shrimp with cashews
pineapple fried rice
beef or chix with broccoli
lo mein or mei fun

I could keep going

 

[DodgerGirl]

Where I live it is very hard to find a good Chinese restaurant and when I do get Chinese food I LOVE pork chow mein and steamed rice and when I was a little girl I was crazy for pork fried rice but now I prefer steamed rice because i'm not a vegetable fan. But my dad loves sliced barbecue pork and I also eat prawns as well. My mom loves egg rolls and she gets them sometimes. Growing up as a child I ate a lot of Chinese food and my family would try to find good Chinese restaurants and if we found we'd liked that restaurant would be our go-to Chinese restaurant. But it seems that Indian restaurants are now becoming popular now and are driving out the Chinese restaurants as well as the Japanese restaurants and I can't figure that out because Chinese food is very popular still and there should be more Chinese restaurants in cities today

 

[NYCgrrl]

But it seems that Indian restaurants are now becoming popular now and are driving out the Chinese restaurants as well as the Japanese restaurants and I can't figure that out because Chinese food is very popular still and there should be more Chinese restaurants in cities today

In part, the reason is cyclical or generational. One group of immigrants arrive with limited or unlicensed skills, pool their funds together and open a business like a restaurant. Older family members work there while younger members attend school. Often times they go to college starting different professions and eventually their parents or grandparents retire and a new set of immigrants arrive to buy the original business.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I love a lot of different things (some more authentic than others) but if I have to pick just one favorite, it is probably crab rangoons.

 

[MillauFr]

I love the XLB soup dumplings and the Dan Dan Noodles.

 

[Kitty 34]

My DH loves Chinese cuisine and me; I like the fortune cookie.

 

[maxiesmom]

Cashew chicken with fried rice.

 

[Minnesota!]

Chinese is my least favorite Asian cuisine - so I usually end up with cream cheese wontons. However, MN-style chow mein (pictured) hits at times. I have been told that what has been served here as Chow Mein is nothing like what other areas of the country have. Ours is like a thick gravy, TONS of celery and water chestnuts, mushrooms, meat of choice (or not), no noodles. Served over rice, topped with the hard chinese noodles. I see most places serve it with thin noodles as the base..? Never have seen that here.

If a place has veggie chow mein, I get that. But, I usually ask if we can go for Hmong, Thai, or Vietnamese if someone is craving Asian.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I enjoy shrimp cow mein, beef and broccoli, pork and other fried rice and shrimp egg rolls.

 

[RedAngie]

Sesame chicken or shrimp
Genersl Tso chicken
Various lo mien

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Mongolian beef with broccoli added instead of just onions.
Egg Foo Young
Shrimp with mixed vegetables.
Mushu Pork.
Foil wrapped Chicken.
Mei Fun.