Chinese food is insanely diverse but if you had to pick one all time favorite Chinese dish, what would it be?

14 points kip707

红烧肉

Pork is life.

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3 points KiwieKiwie

Is it not too fatty? I find the porkbelly too fat sometimes when not rendering some of that fat.

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3 points kip707

Pork fat is a super food. 🫶

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1 points KiwieKiwie

🤭

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2 points themostdownbad

Some people like fatty meat, and that’s exactly what pork belly is

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1 points KiwieKiwie

Rich is probably a better word. I can’t eat too much of it. Meanwhile I could eat much more of Cantonese roasted pork belly.

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2 points holyman2k

If it’s well cooked and mix with rice it doesn’t feel fatty. It’s probably not super healthy, but what nice food is healthy

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1 points KiwieKiwie

Plenty 😅 Cantonese food for instance have plenty of healthy dishes. It’s not very heavy like Sichuan.

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2 points Lost-Barracuda-9680

With steamed white rice. That's it, nothing else.

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8 points Adorable-East-2276

Im a basic bitch. Mapo tofu and dry pot cauliflower and lotus root.

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8 points Everyday_sisyphus

Dan Dan noodles. I want to feel numb.

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8 points Available-Ad-5670

dry beef chow fun (cantonese style)

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1 points KiwieKiwie

Very delicious

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5 points o0-o0-

Ginger & Scallion lobster over yee mein.

Edit: Although there's one dish I've only had once in my life, and I still think about it from time to time: fresh small squid stir fried with yellow chive and FRESH straw mushroom - the levels of umami in that dish...

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7 points akari_i

Guo bao rou

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5 points mooncake0o0

刀削面

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5 points berantle

Hakka Moi Choy Khew Nyuk (梅菜扣肉) (in Cantonese: Mui Choy Kau Yuk), i.e. Steamed Pork Belly with Preserved Mustard Greens.

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2 points KiwieKiwie

I have heard this dish mentioned many times in tvb series although they never show what it looks like on screen lols.

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2 points YoItsThatOneDude

So good, it just falls apart and the zing of the pickled veggies just makes it great

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1 points KiwieKiwie

Will have to try it someday haha.

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3 points ingusmw

Cantonese 'riceless' hotpot (毋米粥)

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4 points anuser123

BBQ duck on rice

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5 points BullfrogEcstatic6312

NanJing KaoYa! 南京烤鸭

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2 points KiwieKiwie

What is that? Is it similar to Beijing one?

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1 points BullfrogEcstatic6312

Its the og one :) 北京人 took the reciepe and tweaked it a bit, and because its the capital (i guess) its name became more popular

I also really love 北京烤鸭 too tho

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3 points maximum-sheer-stress

Malatang

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3 points MissSunshine621

Hot pot 🍲,if that’s considered a dish🤣

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5 points KiwieKiwie

Dim sum 😌 I have many things to eat and pick from. Everything from congee, dumplings to stir fried rice and beef stir fried noodles, egg tarts etc.

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5 points damanoobie

Ayo that’s cheating, doesn’t count as one dish >:(

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1 points KiwieKiwie

🤣😅 someone said hotpot so I also wanted to cheat a bit.

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2 points YoItsThatOneDude

Truuuuuue, picking hotpot is cheating lol

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2 points vzzzbxt

Hot dry noodles, re ga mian, with an egg

Muslim noodles would be up there too

If I had to choose a non noodle dish then hui guo niu rou, or gong bao ji ding (bu yao hua jiao)

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1 points AboKolToom

What is a muslim noodle? Never heard of it before

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3 points Hussard

Lanzhou beef noodle prob!

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1 points YoItsThatOneDude

I prefer fried dao xiao mein, but yeah their noodles are always on point

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1 points thegmoc

Ramen for one. That's the Japanese pronunciation of 拉面, or la mian

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1 points vzzzbxt

The lamian from the Muslim restaurants

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2 points RealGrapefruit8930

Gan bian si ji dou

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2 points Lazy-Limit-8684

辣子鸡 is prob my all time favourite

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2 points NoCap2036

燒賣

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2 points Massive_Sky4589

Chicken feet in black bean sauce and anything else from a dim sum menu.

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2 points ohmamia

Steam fish Cantonese style

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2 points Radiant_Set_604

I like Fung Cheung

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3 points Uncannyguy1000

Yang Chow fried rice

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2 points Sharp-Asparagus3380

Yang zhou

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3 points DMV2PNW

Pretty much anything Cantonese.

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1 points Unusual-Dance5549

Mo gu gai pan

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1 points ambient_groove

八寶醬丁

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1 points bigcee42

I'm from Beijing, we love our pork meat pies.

Xian bing.

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1 points Szting

If you’re from Beijing then you mean xianr bing

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1 points bigcee42

Well yes.

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1 points Acceptable_Friend_40

Sichuan hotpot is peak

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1 points RoutineTry1943

Bak Kut Teh.

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1 points RockCultural4075

Dry pot

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1 points mengzhongmeng

螺蛳粉

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1 points dmnysxde

Braised beef/pork/chicken with potatoes (tastes good with all common meats)

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1 points hailbattle

𰻝𰻝面，肉夹馍

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1 points Hussard

Steamed egg for me.

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1 points poursmoregravy

桂林米粉

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1 points ElderberryNo6893

Sweet and sour pork 咕咾肉

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1 points notyourpersonalbin

Grilled Tilapia with my crickets as side dish I absolutely love the spicy insects

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1 points iamBulaier

Could be any of 100 dishes.

Dumplings

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1 points tokoprint

San Bo fan

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1 points drhip

Hotpot

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1 points crystalcastles879

Egg tarts and a good tea

Savory wise...I can't pick because there's an overwhelming amount of choices 😭

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1 points Sharp-Asparagus3380

So many Singaporeans here 🤭

Mine would be 毛血旺

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1 points Hairy-Button

Luo mai gai (glutinous sticky rice wrapped in leaves)

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1 points TokugawaTabby

臭鳜鱼

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1 points themostdownbad

Is picking hot pot cheating? Lol

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1 points Azsolus

湯包

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1 points Dizzy-Cucumber8498

馅儿饼

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1 points No-Afternoon3681

Jiaozi/hui mien (which im legitimate pissed i cant find in vancouver)

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1 points __BlueSkull__

Beef stew. My own method, combining a bit of Chinese style, a bit of Western style, and a bit of Borsh.

The beef needs to be lean or with only tendons, fat needs to be trimmed very well, then pan fried with wine, black pepper, and salt. The meat is to be seared to a bit beyond well done, all fat dissolved to the cooking oil, but not hard. A bit of sugar is used for flavor (maillard reaction).

The seared, fat-free beef is then stewed with veggies, my common pick being potatos, carrots, onions, Thai peppers, and half or quarter of a wombok or cabbage. The soup shall be flavored with Knorr's beef dense soup gel. The stew is finally flavored with white sauce (pan fried butter, milk, and light cream) for a creamy texture and Tabasco habanero for a fruity flavor, right before serving.

Sometimes I omit onions if I plan to also feed my pup with leftovers, otherwise the recipe is pretty stable and has not changed for years.

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1 points TeamFarquhar

Jiaozi

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1 points ComplexCoyote9950

I love so many of them but gota rep my hometown xiao long bao

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1 points hkbuff

煎饼

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1 points salty-all-the-thyme

小笼包

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1 points SignificantStock389

童子蛋

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1 points Geronimaa

Bai cai Zhu rou jiaozi

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1 points Zealousideal-Air8902

Sweet and Sour Pork.

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1 points Szting

炸酱面

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1 points Responsible_Advice70

内蒙锅茶烧麦

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1 points SurammuDanku

Mapo tofu

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1 points itzdivz

Twice cooked meat

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1 points Ok-Awareness4778

Probably Cheung Fun.

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0 points ThisPostToBeDeleted

Szechuan mung bean jelly noodles. Oh my god, the sauce, the texture. It’s so damn good. Dan Dan noodles are fantastic so is dry chili tofu.

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2 points Sharp-Asparagus3380

Sichuan

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