Following in the footsteps of The Omnivore 100, another blog developed this meme. Lets give it a shot. The rules are the same – bold anything you’ve tried.
- Almond milk
- Ants Climbing a Tree (poetic, not literal, name)
- Asian pear
- Baby bok choy
- Baijiu
- Beef brisket
- Beggar's Chicken
- Bingtang hulu
- Bitter melon
- Bubble tea
- Buddha's Delight [I may or may not have had this when I was really young – I’ll need to consult my mom >.<]
- Cantonese roast duck [SO gooood – could use some right now]
- Century egg, or thousand-year egg
- Cha siu (Cantonese roast pork)
- Char kway teow
- Chicken feet [mmm YUM]
- Chinese sausage
- Chow mein
- Chrysanthemum tea
- Claypot rice
- Congee
- Conpoy (dried scallops)
- Crab rangoon [I had to look this one up – sounds disgusting]
- Dan Dan noodles
- Dragonfruit
- Dragon's Beard candy
- Dried cuttlefish
- Drunken chicken
- Dry-fried green beans
- Egg drop soup
- Egg rolls
- Egg tart, Cantonese or Macanese
- Fresh bamboo shoots
- Fortune cookies [how is this Chinese? American Chinese I guess…]
- Fried milk
- Fried rice
- Gai lan (Chinese broccoli)
- General Tso's Chicken
- Gobi Manchurian
- Goji berries (Chinese wolfberries)
- Grass jelly
- Hainan chicken rice
- Hand-pulled noodles
- Har gau (steamed shrimp dumplings in translucent wrappers)
- Haw flakes [aww I use to LOVE this stuff when I was a kid – its kinda gross now]
- Hibiscus tea
- Hong Kong-style Milk Tea [craving right now.. SO yum]
- Hot and sour soup
- Hot Coca-Cola with Ginger [does hot coke with lemon count?!]
- Hot Pot
- Iron Goddess tea (Tieguanyin)
- Jellyfish
- Kosher Chinese food
- Kung Pao Chicken
- Lamb skewers (yangrou chua'r)
- Lion's Head meatballs
- Lomo Saltado
- Longan fruit
- Lychee
- Macaroni in soup with Spam
- Malatang
- Mantou, especially if fried and dipped in sweetened condensed milk [my bro’s fav]
- Mapo Tofu
- Mock meat [what does that mean?]
- Mooncake (bonus points for the snow-skin variety)
- Nor mai gai (chicken and sticky rice in lotus leaf)
- Pan-fried jiaozi
- Peking duck
- Pineapple bun
- Prawn crackers
- Pu'er tea
- Rambutan
- Red bean in dessert form
- Red bayberry
- Red cooked pork
- Roast pigeon
- Rose tea
- Roujiamo
- Scallion pancake
- Shaved ice dessert
- Sesame chicken
- Sichuan pepper in any dish
- Sichuan preserved vegetable (zhacai)
- Silken tofu
- Soy milk, freshly made
- Steamed egg custard
- Stinky tofu
- Sugar cane juice
- Sweet and sour pork, chicken, or shrimp
- Taro
- Tea eggs
- Tea-smoked duck
- Turnip cake (law bok gau)
- Twice-cooked pork
- Water chestnut cake (mati gau)
- Wonton noodle soup
- Wood ear
- Xiaolongbao (soup dumplings)
- Yuanyang (half coffee, half tea, Hong Kong style)
- Yunnan goat cheese
66/100 hmm… not too bad. But then I’m Chinese. There are a bunch of things that I’ve never heard of before on this list. Time to check them out =)
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