How Chinese am I?
remember the top 100 must-try Japanese food list i posted some days ago? well, apparently someone made a top 100 list for Chinese food here. now, im Chinese who grew up in an asian country so i must have eaten quite a few on the list, right? well, im going to find out now. :P those with ✓ are what i've eaten and those with ♥ are my favs and are highly recommended. ^^
- Almond milk
- Ants Climbing a Tree (poetic, not literal, name)
- Asian pear ✓
- Baby bok choy ✓
- Baijiu
- Beef brisket ✓♥
- Beggar's Chicken
- Bingtang hulu
- Bitter melon ✓
- Bubble tea ✓♥
- Buddha's Delight
- Cantonese roast duck ✓
- Century egg, or thousand-year egg ✓
- Cha siu (Cantonese roast pork) ✓♥
- Char kway teow ✓
- Chicken feet ✓
- Chinese sausage ✓♥
- Chow mein ✓
- Chrysanthemum tea ✓
- Claypot rice ✓
- Congee ✓
- Conpoy (dried scallops) ✓
- Crab rangoon
- Dan Dan noodles
- Dragonfruit
- Dragon's Beard candy ✓♥
- Dried cuttlefish ✓
- Drunken chicken
- Dry-fried green beans
- Egg drop soup ✓
- Egg rolls ✓
- Egg tart, Cantonese or Macanese ✓♥
- Fresh bamboo shoots
- Fortune cookies ✓
- Fried milk
- Fried rice ✓
- Gai lan (Chinese broccoli) ✓
- General Tso's Chicken
- Gobi Manchurian
- Goji berries (Chinese wolfberries)
- Grass jelly ✓
- Hainan chicken rice ✓
- Hand-pulled noodles ✓
- Har gau (steamed shrimp dumplings in translucent wrappers) ✓
- Haw flakes ✓
- Hibiscus tea
- Hong Kong-style Milk Tea ✓♥
- Hot and sour soup ✓
- Hot Coca-Cola with Ginger
- Hot Pot ✓
- Iron Goddess tea (Tieguanyin)
- Jellyfish ✓
- Kosher Chinese food
- Kung Pao Chicken
- Lamb skewers (yangrou chua'r)
- Lion's Head meatballs
- Lomo Saltado
- Longan fruit ✓
- Lychee ✓
- Macaroni in soup with Spam
- Malatang
- Mantou, especially if fried and dipped in sweetened condensed milk ✓♥
- Mapo Tofu ✓
- Mock meat ✓
- Mooncake (bonus points for the snow-skin variety) ✓
- Nor mai gai (chicken and sticky rice in lotus leaf) ✓
- Pan-fried jiaozi ✓♥
- Peking duck ✓
- Pineapple bun ✓
- Prawn crackers ✓
- Pu'er tea
- Rambutan ✓
- Red bean in dessert form ✓
- Red bayberry
- Red cooked pork
- Roast pigeon ✓
- Rose tea ✓
- Roujiamo ✓
- Scallion pancake
- Shaved ice dessert ✓
- Sesame chicken
- Sichuan pepper in any dish
- Sichuan preserved vegetable (zhacai)
- Silken tofu ✓
- Soy milk, freshly made ✓
- Steamed egg custard ✓
- Stinky tofu ✓
- Sugar cane juice ✓♥
- Sweet and sour pork, chicken, or shrimp ✓
- Taro ✓
- Tea eggs ✓
- Tea-smoked duck
- Turnip cake (law bok gau) ✓
- Twice-cooked pork
- Water chestnut cake (mati gau)
- Wonton noodle soup ✓
- Wood ear
- Xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) ✓♥
- Yuanyang (half coffee, half tea, Hong Kong style)
- Yunnan goat cheese