Which North American Chinese food is strong? Foodie Captain Tears Busy-Foodie Squad

Team leaders from various cities of the Food Squad had a conference call again last week.

as predicted……

A good show:

First, the people who criticized Los Angeles were too demanding,

Then the group mocked the people in the Bay Area for not knowing;

Eat less in Chicago, eat less in New York

……

To sum up, there are four words: making a mess.

Therefore, in the mindset of "single torture is not as good as torture",

Last weekend the team sent a Weibo:

Which North American Chinese food is wrong? Which city is strong?

Everyone responded enthusiastically in the comments:

Tear out the attitude,

Tear it out.

To sum up, everyone seems to mean:

"On quality Vancouver first,

On diversity first in Los Angeles;

Well other cities ...

Sing a song "Coolness" together. "

Indeed, although the North American Chinese restaurant industry has

Are creating the fastest period of development and expansion in history;

But the development status of each city can be said to be "different."

The captain of the detachment meets,

It is as if a group of "historical traversers" are sitting at a table:

Some cities have finally stepped back to modern times and to the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen,

Some cities have finally entered the 21st century,

More cities still stay in the 60s.

So in North America, these five places recognized as the most prosperous Chinese food,

Los Angeles, Bay Area, Chicago, New York, Vancouver,

Speaking in detail, the difference is actually huge!

Let's take a look at what the captains of the five places said:

【Los Angeles】

——Aunt 16, the captain of the Los Angeles squad

Although the Vancouver team twirled on Weibo and seemed to want to get rid of our big pheasant, but sitting in San Gabriel Valley, Monetary Park, Arcadia, Alhambra, Rowland Heights and many other high-density Chinese communities (aka food city) pheasant village There is absolutely no place comparable to diversity!

Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan and other eight major cuisines are as many as we can easily find in our big pheasants. This alone kills 99% of the cities in the United States!

Even the relatively niche food such as snail powder and coconut chicken can be easily satisfied by Chinese restaurants in Los Angeles. In addition to our pheasant village, which other city can easily list restaurants according to eight major cuisines? Ok?

Sichuan cuisine

Sichuan cuisine is one of the most popular dishes in Los Angeles.

In addition to the traditional style of "Taste Chengdu" and "Jinchengli", the Sichuan cuisine in Los Angeles also has "Shuaipot Spicy Crab", "Greek Cat Spicy Fresh", "Hanshe" and other Sichuan restaurants that take the new route . There are even authentic Sichuan restaurants such as [Meizhou Dongpo] and [Hot Bonsai Hot Pot] that have been opened from the country. Dongpo elbow fish, spicy pork, spicy chicken, boiled fish, saliva, chicken hair, blood and spouse, lungs, sadness jelly ..., not to mention more than 20 Sichuan and Chongqing hot pots (you do n’t know which ones in Shanji Village? Scan the QR code at the end of the article).

Not to mention, the Sichuan cuisine in Los Angeles definitely dare to say that it is the first in North America, without quotation marks.

Lu Cai

Although Lu cuisine is not as popular as Szechuan in Los Angeles, there are many places to eat it. [Lu Weiju] beef burrito, Texas Braised Chicken, [Qingdao Noodle House] noodles steamed buns, handmade dumplings, [Qingdao Renjia] leek fried sea intestine, etc., are all hometown flavors in Shandong. Although there are not so many choices, it is more than enough to get other cities.

Cantonese

In the pheasant villages that are full of Cantonese people, Cantonese cuisine is naturally one of the most capable dishes, not to mention that it also includes morning tea, a big killer for Chinese and American all-you-can-eat.

[Golden Triumph Palace], [Red House], [Peninsula Seafood Restaurant] morning tea, [Sanhe], [Shenjing] roasted meat, [rice fragrance], [Hong Kong Tea Restaurant] pineapple oil and eggs, [Kai Yue ’s Fried Niuhe, [Bali Ting] ’s Roasted Claypot Rice and Prunella Herbal Tea, and even [Qihua Bakery]’ s Hong Kong Milk and Egg Tart.

But to be honest, Cantonese cuisine ... Shanji Village said the boss, there is really someone to have the capital to snatch (the aunt 16 here tone slightly weaker, seems to have seen the 39-meter knife behind the captain of New York and Vancouver).

Benbang / Huaiyang Cuisine

The number of friends in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai shipping area has increased in the past few years. When I missed the snacks, I ran to the Chinese District.

[Shanghai No. XNUMX] Braised Meat and Hairy Crab, [Kang Kang Xiaomei] Fresh Meat Moon Cake, [Longxingji] Big Soup Bag, [Jufu Building] Pickled Duxian, Scallion Oil Noodle, Xiangyou Eel, Youth League. . . The friends in the postal area often go to these restaurants when they are having dinner. It is especially kind to listen to the waiters and aunts chatting in Shanghai dialect.

Fujian cuisine / Taiwanese cuisine

Los Angeles seems to have few restaurants that simply cook Fujian cuisine, and most of them take the fusion route of Fujian cuisine and Taiwanese cuisine.

Such as [Boiling point] desktop stinky pot, [California Seafood Pub] Buddha jumping wall, [Hao Da] super large chicken steak from Taiwan night market, [Sihai Soy Milk] rice ball, and countless Taiwan milk tea shops. From morning to night, from big to small, you want to eat everything.

Hunan cuisine

There are many spicy lovers in the pheasant village, and Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine are very popular. If you want to feel the sour and spicy flavor of Hunan cuisine, although LA can't make it XNUMX% authentic, but the degree of reduction is already quite good.

[Dong Ting Chun] bacon and ground chili eggplant, [small chili] chopped pepper fish head, [chili king] fried stir-fried snail meat and sour bean, etc., are all spicy and addictive. Xiang cuisine. Red pepper and pickled pepper are the taste of happiness.

In addition to the eight major cuisines, there are often stars in Chinese restaurants in Shanji Village. For example, [Meizhou Dongpo] that was flopped by Li An, Dong Qing, Feng Xiaogang, Xu Fan, etc., [Haidilao] that was flopped by Zhang Yimou and Huang Zitao, [Guishan family] that Zhao Wei flopped, etc. If the quality of the Chinese food in the village is not good, why do so many celebrities rush to eat every day ~

In short, to surpass the achievements of Shanji Village in Chinese food, other cities have to spend a lot of energy. After all, we can easily list a large number of restaurants by eight cuisines! If subdivided, even the cuisine of each province and city can be listed separately.

[Bay Area]

——Wang Ribs is a Meow Star, the leader of the Bay Area Team

A good friend of the pheasant village, a determined Californian warrior, and the immortal world technology center leader Wang Wang Ribs from the Bay Area said that although the Bay Area sits in the oldest Chinatown in North America, and there are a large number of Chinese people, the posture level is high , Per capita income is even more impressive, but ... Chinese food is hard to say ...

Chinese food in the Bay Area, say more or less. Despite the progress made over the years, I have eaten that delicious food every day, but when I look back, I still have to say: It is still far worse than LA Vancouver. Chinese food in the Bay Area does not work. (Awang, is it really good to be so sad?)

It may be that life is too boring, opened a delicious new store, all the friends (of course there are small teams to engage in things) all swarmed to eat. Waiting in line for a few hours, then come back to Tucao after eating: not tasty, not authentic, the waiter is not good, the serving is too slow, it is all deceiving, let it go. But the scene of popular new shops swearing while lining up will generally last 1-2 months.

The new store becomes an old store, and it is still hard to escape the fate of being punished. While saying, "What's so good about xxx, my god, this level is a scum in China!" While trying to wait for a meal, "I'm still xxx, it's delicious".

It is said that the code farmers in Silicon Valley have very low requirements for eating, but they are not necessarily ... It may just be that they have no time to choose a restaurant, have no brains to think about it, just find a house, pull it down after eating, and the main point is to be able to talk about things and fill the stomach. .

In the past, many people felt that the threshold for opening restaurants in the Bay Area was very low, and anything broken could survive. It is not necessarily the case now. House prices and cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area are among the best in the United States. I am determined to open a restaurant.

So in recent years, there are more and more types of restaurants in the Bay Area, and the quality is rising. Let ’s just applaud:

Yunnan cuisine

【Yunjia Town Crossing Bridge Garden】 In addition to the rice noodle crossing bridges that are available in Yunnan restaurants, there are also cream cakes and milk fans that are rare in the United States and even North America. The boss paid a large amount of money to transport them from Yunnan with other rare ingredients.

Sichuan cuisine

The Xinpai Sichuan Restaurant [Xiang Xiao Guan], which takes a refined and innovative style, has a fresh and tranquil taste, and the materials are not sloppy. The live fish of vine pepper is to be killed now, ensuring the freshness of the fish. The pepper and scallion loin slices are not too seasoned, but because the ingredients are fresh, they don't need to be covered with red oil to taste as good.

Hubei cuisine

Bean skin, noodle nest, hot dry noodles, Wuhan classic "premature" combination; pork ribs soup, pearl ball, squid, all have a strong hometown flavor; cumin beef bone, beer duck, lamb pot is also very consistent with the country The appetite of star people everywhere.

large and luxurious

(Picture from SF Weekly)

We also have tall restaurants in the Bay Area. The high-end Chinese private kitchen dish [Eight Zhangtai] opened by George Chen, the owner of Shanghai Roosevelt Steak House, is US $ 225 per person. The price is high, the ingredients are luxurious, and it is also a store that can raise the average Chinese food in the Bay Area.

All in all, maybe the Bay Area Chinese food is good because the foodies are all raised by the squad; then the Bay Area foodies will continue to work hard to improve the standard (more consumption) and eat as well as Los Angeles Vancouver in the morning.

【new York】

——Cat Head, Captain of New York

The cat head said: I would watch the pheasant and Dawen quietly pinch ~ (Aunt 16 said: Oh, you New York is behind the cardinals, Flushing is finally considered to be a "pilgrimage place" for Chinese people all over the United States. Where Sister Feng opened the light)

The cat nodded and felt reasonable.

The characteristics of Chinese food in New York are highly concentrated in Chinatown and Flushing, while the non-Chinatown area of Manhattan generally has a tendency to American taste. Therefore, it is very convenient to go out for food, just pierce the head of Flushing. Flushing is not as sparsely populated as in Los Angeles, with a few stores as a plaza; Shengzai stores have many tricks and 10 stores in 5 steps, and they have grown higher in recent years.

New York is basically dominated by Sichuan cuisine and hot pot, especially hot pot, which is completely surplus.

Sichuan cuisine

I was moved to the "Chuan Shan Jia" sour soup fat beef, the Chengdu style "Shu Alley" secret wind-blown meat and the nine-story pagoda chicken rice sprouts with Wowotou, [Daxi] seafood soup rice soup Wagyu sashimi, [Shang Fang] spicy beef tendon and spouse lung slices, [Chuan Ba Wang] boiling fish and spicy chicken, [Little Chili Sichuan Restaurant] red oil shoushu and red oil rabbit, old shop [ Old Chengdu] sauerkraut fish. . .

Hunan cuisine

[Xiangshui Villa] "A Bucket of the World", [Wangxiang Tower] Braised Turtle, Boiled Chili Preserved Egg and Chopped Pepper Fish Head, [So Xiangwei] Hunan Spicy Crab, Fragrant Duck Head and Stir-Fried Xueli Red, sour beans, bacon and salted egg yolk potato shreds [Tian Tian Xiang Shang]. . . I don't know how many "Sister Tuo" and "Man Brother" were fascinated by Flushing's Hunan cuisine ~

Hot pot / stew pot

Although we do n’t have [Haidilao] yet, the big chain stores [Little Sheep] and [Doulaofang] that are also from China are in Flushing ~ In addition, there is the authentic Chengdu hot pot of [香天下火锅] , Nanpai seafood hotpot of [Grandpa Uncle], lamb scorpion pan of [Lao Cheng Yipot], keel white soup pot of [Sheng Baixian], Nanpai steamed seafood pot of [Steamed Kung Fu], winter melon hotpot of [Bull Hotpot] , [Chuan Shuo] Sanpan Mercedes-Benz Pot and Butter Pan, and [Huang Jihuang] Sanju Braised Pot. . . I'm so hungry ~

Skewers

There are also many barbecue shops in New York, and it is convenient to roll a skewer at night.

[Friendship guest appearances] all reported by CCTV, Japanese, Korean, Northeast, Sichuan and Xinjiang all have! The treasure of the town shop Xinjiang red willow big lamb skewers, the fresh wood fragrance of red willow and the fat of the lamb are intertwined, delicious and delicious! [Laozhou Quanyang Restaurant] all kinds of lamb skewers and mutton soup, [partner barbecue] grilled eggplant, [Judian skewers] honey sauce wing skewers and grilled oysters, [Songlaixiang skewers] crescent bones and Grilled shrimp, super huge roasted leg of lamb from [Red Flame Tribe]. . . Late night long fat is easy ~

Because there are a lot of cuisines in New York countries, Chinese restaurants are very competitive, and many Chinese restaurants will attract attention through high-level decoration and creating Internet celebrity (gimmick) products. Because there are too many choices for customers, especially when everyone gathers in the new store in Fala (according to my observation that two are not exaggerated every month in 2017-18, this is still a big store that everyone can notice), so many restaurants are also struggling to support At the same time, various activities to engage in things to attract customers. Some restaurants caused heated discussion and crazy queues when they first opened, but the ones that laughed until the end were really delicious.

So you foodies in New York, we are making a lot of money.

【Vancouver】

——Shuner, Captain Vancouver Squad

Food News reports: "Vancouver fears the biggest winner of the battle".

I heard that many fans believe that Vancouver Chinese food is of the highest quality, and Shun Er smiled happily.

As a person who has spent three years in the East of the United States and three years in Los Angeles and three years in Vancouver, although there are many types of Los Angeles, the quality is indeed good in Vancouver. (Okay, the official stamped, the villagers of Shanji Village who are not satisfied can go to apply for a visa to buy tickets)

Los Angeles is more international, Korean food is very good, and Chinese food is also good for Sichuan cuisine and there are more restaurants. In Vancouver, Korean food is rubbish, but Chinese food is really nothing! Go! ratio!

And the Cantonese cuisine in Vancouver is really good, probably because there are more Cantonese people in Hong Kong, and even foodcourt is very good. The pheasant village above wanted to grab the first Cantonese food with us? ? We can subdivide the types in Cantonese cuisine ~

Cantonese cuisine

[Ayi abalone fin] sauce abalone, [Yutingxuan shark fin seafood restaurant] truffle dumplings, [Bao Yuexuan] winged pigeon rolls, [Peninsula restaurant] abalone sauce buckwheat king etc. Of high-end Cantonese food, not all Cantonese restaurants can make it ~

Cantonese cuisine and morning tea

Although morning tea is now available everywhere, it still takes a lot of effort to get really delicate and delicious. Vancouver's morning tea quality is definitely the highest in North America! Both new and old stores have their own strengths.

The char siu bao and durian glutinous rice dumplings (in advance reservation) that were opened in Vancouver in the XNUMXs at the Kirin Seafood Restaurant (reservation required in advance), the Matsutake shrimp dumpling emperor and black truffle simmered wheat in the [Yidong Restaurant], and the harbour in the [Harbour Restaurant] The first packet and golden three seconds, [Xin Ruihua] braised pigeon and mango pancake, [Hongxing Seafood Restaurant] roast duck and mangosteen beef . . I feel that I can be listed all day and night!

Cantonese cuisine · Sugar

[Sugar Hundred House] Vitasoy and ginger dumplings with red bean bottom, [Duo Mi] poplar nectar, [osmanthus] raw ground almond paste and ginkgo bean curd egg syrup, [Durian family] Mango black glutinous rice. . . Those who like sugar water will never be disappointed in Vancouver ~

Northern cuisine

In addition to Cantonese cuisine, Dawen ’s northern dishes are also good, such as large chicken, cold skin, pancake fruit, and mutton-related dishes (the mutton stove and mutton soup mutton hanging pan skewers and mutton skewers are good) ~

[Hao Ji Quan Yang Restaurant] Zhengzhou lamb hot and spicy soup and stewed whole lamb pot, [Suzaku Square] steamed meat buns, [taste Changan] oil splash noodles and battered noodles, [old Xi'an kitchen lady] sesame cold skin. Both are cheap and delicious northern dishes.

(From Vancouver LOHAS)

The level of Sichuan and Xiang cuisine in Vancouver is not very good, but when it comes to Cantonese cuisine, we are definitely the best in North America? Disobedience comes to fight!

[Chicago]

(To be added)

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"I'm going to xx to eat xx!"

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