^

Chinese cuisine is pretty broad lol ><

OMG. i had some Chinese food from a shop that specialized in szchechuan cooking??... sechuan.... szechuan?? i dunnno... some $hit like that but OMG it was fkn NICE!!!!

but after that i felt like i was $hitting fire ><

it was soooooo spicy lol ><

^holy crap! u seirous? isn't sichuan close to thailand?

no idea man lol ><

i should check it out ah ha ><

No real favorites here, but from that list, i'll pick Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, and Indonesian cuisines.

I love Japanese food and I think sashimi is one of the best things on earth. Love it and also love it in salad as well. But I have gotten sick before but still I go out and eat sushi all the time !!

I would go with Chinese.

More to choose from. ^^

sashimi...aaahhh...drooling

Nobody can beat Pho. Get that straight people.

^ Pho is good. Used to eat it once a month. But a big part of the charm about Vietnamese food is the low price. Pho used to be $3.50 a bowl in the Valley but now it is $4.75. So I don't eat Pho much anymore. At that price, I'd rather get Ramen.

Heard Vietnamese food is still really affordable in other parts of L.A. that's good.

ive never heard of a lot of food..pho is one of it

Chinese is definitely the best one much more diverse , I heard the Vietnamese dish "Pho" was invented by the Chinese

it's just a variation of a Chinese dish

A bowl of Pho here is about $7.00.....so feel happy with $4.75

and I heard that pad thai, sushi, and kim chi were invented by the Chinese too, right?

sweet jesus .... $7.00

a bowl of pad thai 30baht (1.00$)

last time.. in oc pho was just $2 & its open late..maybe theres so much viet restaurants in oc.. they had to lower it to beat the competition

Any dish of Viet food from a typical Viet restaurant here ranges from around 6 to 8 dollar.

But many go above to 9-10 dollars and some go below to 4-5 dollars.

Edit:
Hm on the topic, I didn't have good experiences with Thai food. I looked for some authentic Thai restaurants with good reviews but the food there disappointed me. I ended up leaving behind half of the all the food I ordered because I couldn't eat them. The good thing about Thai restaurants is that their customer services are so nice! I like their attitudes. They greet you when you walk in, always say something kind and polite to you instead of the simple "what do you want?" questions. When they give you your meal, they would wish you enjoy your meal and check back once awhile to make sure you're enjoying their food (though the last part can be make you feel a bit uncomfortable sometimes). It's totally different from the customer services in Viet restaurants around here where things just go like: "What do you want?" "I want lah lah" "Ok here". *Eat*

I got one experience with Indonesian food and it was pretty good (The food I had was satay and some dish whose named started with "Nasi"). Though the service was kinda bad. I was very hungry when I stepped into the restaurant and the lady let us wait for like an hour before serving food to us (compared to about 10 minutes of waiting I often have in regular Viet restaurants in Little Saigon). I understood that they needed time to make the food but waiting just drove me mad especially when I was very hungry (the lady was talking on her cell phone for a long time, and it took them like 15 minutes just to bring us cans of coke then another 10 minutes just to bring us some bowls, then some spoons and forks...). So I didn't go back to that Indonesian restaurant again. Still looking for some Indonesian restaurant with better services so I can try more of their food.

My experience with Japanese food was pretty bad. I tried to eat sushi many times at different places but I still couldn't swallow it. Once I tried some "Miso noodles" and it was like the worst noodles I've ever head. I know many people like Japanese food but unfortunately I haven't had a good experience with it. Still looking for some reputable Japanese place to find out.

Chinese food are everywhere. I used to like it, but recently I think I just grew out of it. Maybe too much Panda Express lol. I think I like the Chinese food outside the Canton region. Cantonese food are a bit overrated (well for one thing, they are often a bit too salty for my liking and sometimes they're quite oily, maybe it's just the restaurants.)

I've only had Korean BBQ once and it was pretty good. At least I liked it.

Never had any experience with "real" Filipino food and Indian food (aside from the ones served at my campus food court, but I know they are not real Indian food, more like Americanized versions lol).

^ Chinese fast food is garbage. I can't believe you can stomach it. It's not real Cantonese food anyways. Real Cantonese food is very light.

Yeah, Chinese food is pretty broad.

^ No, I was talking about the Chinese food I had in Chinese restaurants in general, like Seafood Cove for example, but maybe it's just the restaurants, I don't know about homemade Chinese food.

Panda Express was just among the things made me sick of Chinese food recently. I never ate Panda Express until the past few months when I didn't have time to drive for like 30 minutes to some Asian community for food, so I just had to settle for the Panda Express place on my campus. At least it's a good alternative of chicken nugget, burger and fries, which I usually have when I'm lazy.

another favorite asian food is Filipino foods, one of my favorite restaurants is a place called "KUSINA NI TESS" in San Francisco, the food is already cooked and you just tell them what you want, it's kind of set up like Panda Express, but the food is better more like filipino home style dishes.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/kusina-ni-tess-san-francisco

Aww in San Francisco That means I can't try. Any good Filipino place in Southern Cali?

are you a member of YELP? do a search and you will find lots of Filipino food places in southern Ca

http://www.yelp.com/biz/bahay-kubo-restaurant-los-angeles

BAHAY KUBO restaurant

2330 W Temple St
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Neighborhoods: Silver Lake, Westlake

(213) 413-4804

in Los Angeles looks like a nice place to eat with nice reviews

^ No. No good restaraunts in Ca

First, Filipino food varies a lot so each cook is different. Saying that, what I've experienced is it's oily and doesn't taste like Asian food. It taste something more like American food with coconut milk.

Some good stuff is:

eggrolls
banana sauce
vinegers
pork barbecue on skewer
milkfish with garlic and vinegar
Purple yam stuff
Dry powdery chocolate

start with this and then try others stuff.

philippine dessert dish



typical lunch plate with pancit, rice, adobo chicken

let me guess: halo halo!

living in the Philippines most my life.. to my standards i would say No too..

yeah cooking varies from region to region or house to house

in manila.. we usually share food with our neighbors.. one of my neighbor cooks everything sweet like its dessert... then my next neighbor cooks everything spicy like they eat chilis for dessert!
i guess some of her cooking is similar to these except these dont even have the spiciest chilis or use that much



heres one pinoy restaurant in CA..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQngeansG6Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxwAdy1oKjg

^ Oh. I forgot to mention the deserts are great.

The 2 restaurants on the vids were from San Fransisco, your up in the Bay area?
Just asking since I thought you were in L.A.

^no i visit nocal. though.

on pinoy food some people would say the food looks good & taste good but then when they ask what it is.. it kinda kills it.. because the filipino would say oh its cow tongue , pig intestines etc & they go ew haha

next time try sizzling sisig made from pig head lol but theres other varieties beside pig head even like tuna etc,
ive seen it in some pinoy restaurants here in socal.. its not like in the pi.. but some are pretty close like the made to order ones. or ask your filipino in laws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSFKMlYv8w0

^I think I've had about every common Filipino dish there are. LOL.

It is surprising to find out what some of the dishes are made out of. I think one was blood sausage or blood something. I don't remember that well but it was surprisingly edible.

But then again I really shouldn't be saying someone else's food is odd, I'm Japanese, we eat raw horse meat and poisonous puffer fish!


My favorite Filipino dish: Filipino Barbecue and egg-rolls

That restaurant should close down, period. You can't operate a restaurant like that, no excuses.
'Nasi' just means rice, so it could be anything for what you had lol. I assume nasi goreng? (goreng means fried)

My fav. are still the Balinese pork roll (Anthony Bourdains fav!), satay with rice cakes and the Padang cuisine.

But for being unbiased. the best Asian food comes from India, no doubt! I love all their curries!

nom nom nom

For the Chinese cuisine: I'm fed up with that, I eat it daily ugh.
Yam cha on the other hand is still great!

haha nice.. i cant believe cow tongue or pig head are the "common" dishes serve in US Fil restaurants lol no wonder its not that popular
the common dishes btw are those that exist in all parts of the PI.. many regional cuisine dont make it to US menus.. kinda how i dont see raw horse meat on the menu too i guess lol you can say 'odd'... you can take a blue jiggly Jello somewhere & they might say 'odd' or ew
i dont like how almost everything on a stick is just called bbq.. sometimes preparations & taste vary differently

blood? haha i think thats "dinuguan".. very popular among wannabe vampire white people too ...j/k

is that translation? it looks like a whole sentence or maybe "warning label:may cause severe....." ???

No that wasn't it. It was white rice wrapped in some leaves with chicken and hm...I remember dried salted fish (don't really remember whether it came with the satay or the rice), some corn...I think there were some more but I just forgot (mostly because I didn't know what they were). The chicken was especially good! Also I think the wrapping leaves made the rice tasted much better than usual (if not, it was probably because I was hungry lmao). I also remember these little white squarish thing that seemed to be made up of smashed potato but it didn't taste like the American smashed potato when I had it so I wasn't sure what it was. I think it came with satay (if not, it could come with the rice).

Oh I got combination satay (pork, beef, goat, chicken, something else, it was 5 or 6 kinds of meat) but ironic enough, with the exception of chicken whose appearance is easily distinguished by its yellowish color, I couldn't tell the rest. I knew they tasted differently (some I liked and some I didn't) but I couldn't tell which one was pork, which one was goat and so on.

Naw, it's direct:"pork intestine & blood slow cooked stew"

BTW, have you ever tried Sushi? Many Filipino's haven't so I've introduced it to many out here where I live.

Ive tried "Dinuguan" from several different filipino restaurants and some places use different parts from the pig

some use lots of pig stomach in their blood stew and some cooks use other parts

is a Filipino savory stew of blood and meat (typically stomach, intestines, ears, heart and snout) simmered in a rich, spicy dark gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili (most often siling mahaba), and vinegar

Wrapped in leaves (banana?) must be a 'pepes' dish, chicken is ayam, so I guess nasi pepes ayam? lol. Hmm the dried/fried salted anchovies, isn't that widely available in SEA, even in Vietnam or so I thought? The satay is usually one dish. I don't know anything about a square figured mashed potatoe haha. Your discription sounds like it's a bad place for Indonesians But good for the unknown, at least.

Duuuude for real? I've never met a person in my life that didn't know what sushi is. I mean, next to pizza and burgers, sushi comes next!! Teriyaki, teppanyaki, tempura, etc is a different story.
Chuka wakame... ebi.. taki... inari.. tobiko & ikura gunkun NOMMM!
I really wanna try fugu, but I'm scared that I'll end up dead XD

Just a question, is that dish with blood a national dish of the Phils / Widely available throughout the Phils? Do catholic Phils don't care that's forbidden? (just like my moslem friends that eat pork etc :P)
Well I eat anything except that ^_^ blood is a no-no for me, no matter how delicious and aromatic the dish smells :P

This dish is so popular in the Philippines that you will find it at just about any occasion, from simple family gatherings to weddings. I would say it's kind of like a national dish of the Philipines, since it's so popular

Muslim Filipinos do not eat dinuguan since it would be against Islamic law to eat pork, but most other filipinos can eat it

oh i see

how weird.. japanese restaurants are one of the more popular in PI maybe after american & chinese.. .. oh yeah but every time i go.. i don't know which one to order since theres like 100 different kinds




most meat that you eat have blood anyways... so beside the quantity.. whats the difference, since you already ate it before

it probably predates islam & christianity in the region so its a classic austronesian dish, i think the dish might had been more popular in indo before.. because the non-muslim Bataks of Indonesia have a similar dish to Dinuguan.. there wouldn't be pigs in every corner of indo.. if the people there never ate pigs

Recipe : http://cateringbatak.com/resep-makanan-batak-saksang/


btw you won't even know its blood unless we tell you i usually do that to my friends... i won't tell them what exactly it is till after they eat.. lol

That's a misconception. e.g. the fluid in steak is just the juices of meat, that absorbs the color of the meat. In a slaughterhouse the skinned dead animals are hanging on a hook to leak some excess blood. So the meat from the supermarket/butcher usually do not contain blood. Afterall, don't you wash your meat before you cook?

Ah so it's a dish when we were all still animist cool. I don't know much about the Batak tribe and what their dishes are but the recipe indeed indicates that you need pig blood for 1 kilo of pork. One side of the fam is from the island sulawesi and I do know that some other tribes there eat blood as well. And I know for sure that I ate blood in Bali it was good (I didn't know it contained blood lol) and in my innocent younger years I ate blood sausages. Anyway, He can't blame me if I didn't know, so serve me whatever Pinoy meal is superb but don't tell me the ingredients! hahaha
Oh, my personal experience, you can get pork in almost every city/village, you just have to know where. I don't think it's allowed in the province Aceh where the Sha'ria law applies.
Pork is sooo good. But I eat all kinds of animals.

Of topic but... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDA_4DKrbM someone talked about pork intestines and it reminded me of this funny old video

i dont wash it..so i can taste the bloooood.. jk

eating blood is in your genes! lol... many ethnic groups in sulawesi came directly from the Philippines & speak languages belonging to philippine type languages. maybe you also have blood eating filipino in your genes!

so non muslim bataks in aceh cant eat their dish? or sharia only applies to muslims?

lmao first time ive seen that video.. was that real?

filipinos cook the beef well