Indian restaurants

[idler]

Oriental Palace is the best Chinese this side of China.

When we were in China 90% of the food was rubbish.
It's certainly nothing like the Chinese food here.
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The Chinese food we have here isn't Chinese that's why. You'd never find any of it in China.

We did find similar and our favourite was Szechuan, nice and spicy.
Most of the other offerings were bland.
We travelled from Shanghai up the Yangtse to Cheng Du,Xian and Beijing so we tried food in different areas of China.

[SydneyRover]

Oriental Palace is the best Chinese this side of China.

When we were in China 90% of the food was rubbish.
It's certainly nothing like the Chinese food here.
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The Chinese food we have here isn't Chinese that's why. You'd never find any of it in China.

We did find similar and our favourite was Szechuan, nice and spicy.
Most of the other offerings were bland.
We travelled from Shanghai up the Yangtse to Cheng Du,Xian and Beijing so we tried food in different areas of China.

Food from northern China is blander, not that I've been but there are some local restaurants here from that area.

[ravenrover]

I've worked in China 3 times, several weeks at a time in Beijing and in Outer Mongolia. The food served in chinese restaurants over here would be unrecognisable over there. They have lots of vegetables, meat of any kind is quite expensive over there, but the food away from the tourist spots is wonderful lots of flavours. In Mongolia I had the best lamb ever, and I don't normally eat lamb. A full lamb had been boiled to remove the excess fat and then slow roasted, it fell off the bone and was delicious. Lots of Duck restaurants and no western food except in the hotel. Mindst you I did have the worst taste of food there, Camels Hump it was a gelstinous mess but out of curtesy you had to try it, never again.

[idler]

To be fair we went with Wendy Woo tours and they looked after everything. The only thing was they bussed you to whichever restaurant you were having your meal in so you weren't choosing your eatery.
The four nights on the Yangtse boat was nice food though.
Some of the food on the stalls in the street looked a bit rough though. There were some things like cooked large rats heads with two massive teeth at the front.😳