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purefit
15 yrs ago
Does anyone know of any chinese delivery places that does american style chinese food?
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American style? You are in the wrong place, my friend.
Kind of reminds me of an American tourist who walked up to me in Nathan Road a few years ago, and said "Where's Chinatown, buddy"?
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Oh come on madtown. It is relatively easy to tell if some people are American, at least with pretty high probability. They tend to be rather characteristic. If nothing else, the way he casually approached someone and the use of the expression "buddy" are dead giveaways.
Don't get me wrong. I like the US (lived there for 6 years) and I like most Americans I have met. They just tend to have certain distinctive characteristics that are fairly easy to recognize.
As for the OP's question, I have never heard of such a place. In fact I have never seen American style "Chinese" food outside North America.
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Ed
15 yrs ago
I seem to recall that there was a place opening in Hong Kong that was to serve western style chinese food... cant recall the source...
I also know that one of the big restaurant groups in HK were bouncing around this idea a few years ago - dont think they acted on it though
Bring on the chicken balls in orange sauce!
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Madtown,
He looked like an American, dressed like an American, and spoke like an American. So I assumed that he was an American. He might have been a very good actor, of course.
No offense intended.
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Ktong
15 yrs ago
Hi Purefit you could try American Peking on Lockhart Road, very westernised Chinese. Not sure if they deliver though I'm afraid
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Thank you all for the recommendations!
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Incidentally, some years ago RTHK aired a programme on Hong Kong's culinary heritage. According to the programme, that great gweilo dish, Sweet and Sour Pork, was actually devised in Hong Kong.
To balance things up a bit, I worked with a chap from Australia (he was British by birth) who absolutely refused to eat at local restaurants. "I hate Chinese food", he said. Given the huge diversity of Chinese cuisine, I was totally flummoxed.
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I would second the recommendation re:American Peking on Lockhart Road. The peking duck is delicious a la western style (not like the slightly bitter Beijing 'traditonal one' which does not suit my taste) but needs a reservation, and the sweet n sour pork is also really good. Am pretty sure they don't deliver but its a great boisterous atmosphere.
Woods99 your post gave me my belly laugh of the day.....totally cracked me up.....too funny for words!
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Lagrue,
The "Chinatown" incident was the only genuinely funny thing that ever happened to me when I was living in Hong Kong. It happened a long time ago, not long after tourism was opened up again (the late seventies), and that is one reason that I am sure that the man was an American.
I cannot recall exactly what I said to him, but I was aware enough of my civic responsibilities to be nice to him, and not take the mickey. I probably suggested to him that he go to have a look at Mongkok, or somewhere equally "Chinese".
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American Chinese food is not the same as what HKers refer to as western style Chinese food. American Chinese food includes things like sweet and sour pork/chicken balls, egg foo yung, kung po chicken, gai deng, moo goo gai pan, chow mein, chop suey, egg rolls, etc.
I think HK diners that serve westernised Chinese food serve things like baked rice, baked spaghetti but not those that are found in the US.
Personally, I have not found any US style Chinese food served here. Don't think I have ever seen an egg roll in HK.
BTW Americans are very easy to spot, especially those from the noth east and the south. They dress very casually - think Gap, Banana Republic, Polo, CK, and underdress for the weather. Usually quite friendly and open and will chat up anyone. "Y'all", "buddy", "pal". "chief" - use of those terms is a dead giveaway. If they shake our hand and pat you on the back, and finally if they stand with their feet wider than shoulder width apart with the fingers in their jeans, those are also giveaways.
Americans will also tell you the city and most likely the state that they are from. eg a Canadian will not say he is from Timmins, Ontario but an American will say he is from Charlotte, North Carolina and usually refer to his college alma mater - eg "Home of the Fighting Irish/Gamecocks/Trojans.
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ecareken was it really necessary to cut and paste an entire American restaurant menu? You never wrote your reason or how this relates to a "living in or moving to Hong Kong discussion" forum.
I do not see many people ringing from HK to order # S18 - Although I wonder, do they deliver?
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The longer the menu, the worse the food.
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Madtown,
As I said in a follow-up post, I did have a short conversation with him. Again, as I said earlier, this event happened many years ago, at a time when people who looked like Americans were invariably Americans (or perhaps Canadians, but he did not have a Canadian accent).
Are you inferring that the whole story is made-up? If you are, you are calling me a liar, and I resent that.
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Ed
15 yrs ago
http://mistysroadtrips.com/__oneclick_uploads/2009/09/dim-sum.jpg
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Ktong
15 yrs ago
Do you mean Dim Sum Mrs Smith?
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As Mrsmith wrote it is a fast food item predominantly made from cabbage, flavours and meat that is defined as 'other meat'. Not too sure what this means. I assume this is not your normal beef, chicken, lamb or pork but 'other meat'.
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Ktong
15 yrs ago
Well you learn something new everyday, thanks for that
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Woods99, I can see how the scenario played out with the american stranger. I don't think it is all that crazy to have him believe there is a little chinatown tucked away somewhere in the city, just like back home. I think one develops pre conceived ideas because of where we grew up/lived in the past.
I remember visiting the states in the early 90s with my family, and trying to order a pizza with loads of toppings, just like we were used to in Australia and was confronted with a HUGE bill at the end of it, because as the guy explained to me, in the states and in his restaurant, people usually just had a single topping e.g pepperoni with tomato base and cheese. I remember even though I was just a teen at the time thinking that americans were total phlebs, when in fact it was me who hadn't got out much!
Anyway i think your experience was one of those really funny moments in life! Enjoy and thanks for sharing.
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The apocryphal American wasn't necessarily that clueless. Singapore does have a Chinatown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Singapore
Perhaps he was looking for a neighborhood with a dense concentration of ornate, beautifully constructed, and well-maintained temples or familial clan halls or something of that nature.
HK is a thoroughly Chinese city but (to a visitor) most of the buildings here fall into two general classes appearance-wise: modern steel-and-glass construction and run-down-looking cement-on-rebar jobs. Neither sort gives off a strong "traditional Chinese" feel if you're a tourist.
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But this person was IN China - you do not see anyone in Singapore asking to be taken to 'Little Singapore" or "Singapore town".
Singapore is not in China. In Singapore (an independent country) an area predominantly accommodated by Chinese could be called Chinatown, however in HK (China) it is an ill-thought out question to be asked to be taken to Chinatown, it is all China.
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The whole question of the "Chineseness" of Hong Kong is an interesting one, as is the widespread loss of historical remnants.
In fact, I did start a thread about this, a few years ago, but it died a slow death.
Of course, Hong Kong was far more "Chinese" when I first moved in, the late seventies, there were still godowns at North Point, only one harbour tunnel, the Lion Rock Tunnel was just open, the airport was still at Kai Tak, of course, the old Repulse Bay Hotel was still there, in all its colonial glory. Oh, I could go on.
There were still plenty of relics of WW2 around - there probably still are, if you go looking for them.
Anybody looking for the equivalent of "Chinatown" could have gone just about anywhere in the colony.
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