China Romance
General Discussion and Useful Links => The Campfire => Topic started by: brett on September 23, 2009, 08:12:16 am
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OK guys, now I am getting worried. I told my girl I like hotpot.
How hot is Sichuan Hotpot? Has anyone tried it? What if my prospective mother in law cooks it?
I mean, seriously, have you seen a hotpot? It seems to be mostly chillies floating in a bowl of chilli oil:
(http://www.chinaodysseytours.com/tours/pictures/22-days-Grand-China-Tour-with-Yangtze-Cruise/daybyday/chongqing-hot-pot2.jpg)
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It looks like something Qingqing would order :angel:.
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Brett,
To be perfectly blunt, ... it's Bloody hot (spicy) and if your anything like me ...throat burning!!
I don't and can't eat hot or over spiced food, they have never agreed with me, and also the fact that i just don't like them.
I have always preferred to be able to taste what i'm eating, if it's chicken i want to be able to taste chicken, if it's beef, that's what i want to taste too. With all this Chilly and curry and other hot spices, that's ALL you can taste, they could be giving you cat or dog, you wouldn't know because you cant taste anything but the spice's. Well, ...that's how and why the use of hot spices came about, ...to disguise bad and or rotten meat and veg.
All those that like this stuff, your more than welcome to it, I'll stick to being able to taste what i'm eating!! hahaha!!
David...
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Okay guys, calm down, there are many types of hot pot, not all are hot, some have a divider down the middle, on one side it's spicy and the other side is not, you just have to be carefull when ordering.
Now I have never been able to find a non-spicy hot pot in Sichuan, I think its one of the few that could peel the paint of a car, but I love it.
Brett, take plenty of Tumes with you, you'll need them.
Mike
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If I could get genuine, fiery, mouth numbing Sichuan hot-pot here....I would have it for 3 meals a day !!!!....Yummmmmmm !!
But it is not as hot as Bulgogi....Korean fire beef....more Yummmmm
DavidE
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If I could get genuine, fiery, mouth numbing Sichuan hot-pot here....I would have it for 3 meals a day !!!!....Yummmmmmm !!
But it is not as hot as Bulgogi....Korean fire beef....more Yummmmm
DavidE
David,
You got that right about Bulgogi. It is marvelous. Can't say I have ever tried Sichuan hot-pot but am willing to give it a go.
Shaun
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Its great. If you cannot eat spicy order yin yang hotpot which will give you a spicy and non spicy sides. Its actually not spicy at all since you dip the food in the bowl of sauce in front of you after taking it out of the pot. The bowl of sauce cools the food down and add some more flavours to the food. I can eat spicy food without a problem so its might not be spicy to me.
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If I could get genuine, fiery, mouth numbing Sichuan hot-pot here....I would have it for 3 meals a day !!!!....Yummmmmmm !!
But it is not as hot as Bulgogi....Korean fire beef....more Yummmmm
DavidE
David,
You got that right about Bulgogi. It is marvelous. Can't say I have ever tried Sichuan hot-pot but am willing to give it a go.
Shaun
Shaun
If you like Bulgogi....you will LOVE hot-pot :icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:
DavidE
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I love spicy food hhhmmmm That hotpot looks scrumptious
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I love spicy food hhhmmmm That hotpot looks scrumptious
You are therefore in for a REAL treat mate ....hot woman, hot food...paradise :icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:
David
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I second that, about Korean food, I've worked many time's with Korean contractors on projects in Asia and the Middle East. I know that i don't like hot spicy foods but i'm always willing to try something ONCE!! The dish i remember most about Korean food is Kimchi, fermented pickled cabbage. God does it stink, and tastes just as bad too. The Koreans eat this stuff for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Believe me when i say, ...you cannot get too close to Koreans after a meal. They literary stink of this Kimchi, it's so strong it oozes out of there pores, as well as there breath. Almost everything I've tasted of Korean dishes is mega hot, very similar to Thai Dishes.
There is a green paste that the Koreans are particularly keen on, They often mix it with soy sauce on the table ...i tried this paste (which they call green mustard) it killed every taste bud i have, i couldn't taste another thing after trying this green paste on a king prawn, Never Again, ...absolutly Never Again!! hahaha!!!
David....
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Korean food is hot. Perhaps the green paste is similar to Japanese wasabi? I can't get enough of that stuff!
I have been upping the number of chillis I cook with, but somehow I don't think anything can prepare me for authentic Sichuan cooking:@.
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I agree with David, I have never tasted anything that I liked about Korean Food. My wife has a paste that she likes and had me try it, my god, i had to spit it out. Here in China they have Korean BBQ restaurants, but that is just a name, they do havea few Korean dishes but mostly usual fare.
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Sichuan food is hot...so is Hunan food. Just a heads up to any brothers heading over there. It is damn tasty though!
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I just don't understand, how anyone can honestly call hot spicy dishes, ..Tasty!!
You can only taste whats making them hot, the rest of the ingredients are just textures, certainly no taste to them. Even if you can recognise them, there flavour has been eradicated by the hot spices, which was the original whole idea, of the use of Hot spices. To totally hide the taste of the food!!! ...hahaha!!
David....
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If God told me I could only eat food from two different nations for the rest of my life my choices would be Chinese and Mexican.
Love that hot stuff. Don't much care for the second time it burns though.
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David, don't go to Fujian then, every thing my wife cooks is spicy HOT.
Shaun, I know what you mean about the second time burn or the one at the exit for that matter.
Man there is some good eating, the hotter the food the better.
David, I like sweet Kimchi, and I love wasabi, and sometimes I like to eat things that the wusses eat ( Nonspicy ) :icon_cheesygrin:
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To make a hot spicy dish....
Take 60 small red chilies...the ones the Thais call "Tom Thumb"...the hottest in the world.
Wearing latex gloves and a face mask...VERY essential, whatever you touch after handling them with bare hands will BURN (ouch in private places )...remove all the seeds...keep them.
Discard the red outer pulp.
Shallow, dry fry the seeds only until roasted...dont breathe during this process or you will cough for 4 days !!
Grind the roasted seeds and use as the base for Korean Bulgogi paste...
Heaven :):):)
ps...David50...dont the Poms regard the height of spicy food as putting some vinegar on fish and chips ?????? (haha...just joking)
DavidE
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David, don't go to Fujian then, every thing my wife cooks is spicy HOT.
David, I like sweet Kimchi, and I love wasabi, and sometimes I like to eat things that the wusses eat ( Nonspicy ) :icon_cheesygrin:
David, you sound so tough in the letters, and now you are just letting us all down with your soft weak stomach. I will have to take time to recover from this revelation.
After having been in Japan for 4 years, I also like Kimchi, wasabi, sushi, all of course with a good Sapporo Beer. I think one of the deal breakers with XiuRu was in her second letter when she asked if I knew what Kimchi was and if so do I like it. Yes to both and we are still talking.
Buzz
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Buzz,
Don't let the fact that i don't hot spicy foods fool you, i'm still tough as old nails!! ...haha!!
As for the Kimchi, your all very welcome to the stuff, just don't come breathing anywhere near me. God how any westerner can eat fermented pickled cabbage i will never know!!
I suppose after eating that green paste, it wouldn't matter what you ate, cause you sure ain't gonna taste it ...hahaha!!!
David...
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David, have you ever seen a Korean person bothered by mosquitoes ?, no, do you know why?, its because of the Kimchi, they don't like the smell either, hell even I don't like the smell but it tastes good.:icon_biggrin:
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Guy's,
I am easy to spot in a Mexican restaurant. I am the guy with a fork in my left hand and a white towel in my right. Beads of sweat breaking out on the top of my head and if my children are with me they are laughing at me. It may look silly but I don't care I am in hog heaven eating the hot stuff loving it.
I imagine the first time Pinky sees me eat hot food would be in her restaurant. I will break out in a sweat and she will wonder what is wrong. Should I play it like someting is wrong or should I laugh and grab a towel? That will be a fun evening.
Shaun
I wonder if they have good Mexican Restaurants in Changsha?
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You guys are all nuts? Why put yourselves through with something that burns when it's going in, sits in the stomach giving pain and has the same burn going out?
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Vince,
I don't experience the pain in my stomach. For me it is a way of life. I have been eating hot food since childhood. Growing up on the border between the US and Mexico we had live in maids. They cooked and cleaned while mom and dad worked. The burn going out doesn't happen unless you eat seeds. Seeds burn! not quite as bad but they burn. Do you remember the Cheech and Chong routine about this and church back in the 70's?
Just thinking about 35 years later it makes me laugh.
Shaun
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Mike,
The further you get away from Mexico the stranger things get. My mother lives in Oklahoma just south of Tulsa and one of the Mexican Restaurant also has Italian and Chinese.
My favorite Mexican dish is Charo. Oops I mean Chile Relleno. It is muy bueno!!! It is a long green chile split open stuffed with cheese sometime ground beef to and fried in a egg and flour batter. My mouth is watering right now!!!!!
Several years ago back in the stone age I went to a Pizza and Mexican restaurant and saw they had them there so I ordered a plate of them. Jalapenos wrapped in a corn tortilla with red pizza sauce on it. The worst thing I have ever tasted. I can't imagine one being in China but it would be fun to look and try. :icon_cheesygrin:
Maybe I should open a Mexican Restaurant there!!!!!
Shaun
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I think you can probably find a restaurant of most nationalities in Shanghai and Beijing if you look for them.
In others areas of China it will depend how big the city is and what sort of overseas tourist industry they have. Remember that China's tourist industry is growing all the time, and if there is one thing the Chinese are adept at, is seeing business opportunities.... hahaha!!
There are certainly English/American type restaurants in most major and minor cities... Thank god!!! lol!!
David....
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Beijing or Shanghai will be stuffed with Western restaurants. Hell, even Yichang has a Pizza Hut now.
McDonalds are everywhere on the planet, but they usually do a few local specialities.
While I was in Tokyo's Akihabara district last year I noticed that a couple of Turkish guys had opened a kebab place, I thought that was pretty cool.
Asians seem very fond of Italian cuisine - the ladies love it.