Chickity China the Chinese chicken...

[DMKA]

What do you typically get when you go Chinese food?

Me? I usually get some form of sweet and sour chicken with fried rice.

[Shoeberto]

Emperor/General Tso's/Tsu's/whatever Chicken. I've seen it named so many different ways but generally it's always delicious. And fried rice, of course.

It's usually better at sit down type places though. Buffet-type places tend to make it nowhere near spicy enough so it's basically just sesame chicken with the slightest pinch of spiciness.

[Sergeant Hartman]

Only thing I like is rice with curry sauce and prawn crackers, and some spare ribs every now and then.

[Ouch!]

Emperor/General Tso's/Tsu's/whatever Chicken. I've seen it named so many different ways but generally it's always delicious. And fried rice, of course.

Also hot and sour soup, although that's generally a hit or a miss.

[Comet]

Sweet and sour chicken balls and egg fried rice.

[Jess]

If it's a takeaway, then chicken chow mein or sweet and sour chicken with egg fried rice.

If I'm in a sit down restaurant then peking duck in pancakes with spring onions and hoi sin sauce. nomnomnom.

[blackmage_nuke]

Fried Rice

[Iceglow]

If it's the chineese around the corner from me I go for their chow mein dishes, chicken, veg or prawn doesn't really fuss me this is because they do excellent chow mein so, so, so good! The sweet and sour there is nice but I often get a veg chow mein and chicken balls with sweet and sour sauce rather than a sweet and sour meal. If I'm in the buffet place on Shaftsbury Ave in Central London (MW buffet, it's owned by the same guy who owns the smaller and cheaper Mr Wu's in Wardour street but has more dishes to choose from and less cramp environment) I like to have a variety of things these include; pork char sui, pork/chicken sweet and sour, battered sesame bread, thin noodles with veg and prawns all manner of dishes I try to have a bit of everything, apart from their fruit jelly, because tbh I don't like jelly much and I'm no fan of chineese style jelly either. There's also the excellent place up in Birmingham where us EoFF crazy people went last year, I don't recall what I ate there, but the food was to die for I remember that! Next meetup we manage in Birmingham we're going back there for sure!

[Big D]

Beef and black bean, usually. Or anything with mushrooms.

[mooglebunni608]

Scallion pancakes are a must. And I really like sweet and sour chicken or pork <3 so I tend to get that a lot. <33 I really wish the Chinese places around here served more varied stuff, but whatever. It still tastes yummy <3

[fire_of_avalon]

Orange or sesame chicken.

[Parker]

Sweet and sour chicken balls, fried rice of some kind, duck with beansprouts, foo yung and a pancake/spring roll. Good takeout food.

[Tallulah]

Something sweet and sour, something with cashew nuts, or beef in oyster sauce, always with special fried rice. On occasion I might get sesame prawn toasts, seaweed, or spare ribs.

[Hambone]

Emperor/General Tso's/Tsu's/whatever Chicken. I've seen it named so many different ways but generally it's always delicious. And fried rice, of course.

Also hot and sour soup, although that's generally a hit or a miss.

Win.

[Parker]

I am pretty sure all the meat used by the takeaways where I live is low grade and maybe from other animals than those written on the menu but I don't mind it tastes good.