Why do most take-out Chinese restaurants taste the same?

The menus are all very similar, and the food tastes very similar at most of the small, take out chinese restaurants. It’s almost like they’re all one big chain, but they’re all mostly family owned, with different names. Why is this?

Do they all have the same supplier or something? Read more

What makes the vegetables from chinese restaurants kind of gooey?

Alright, an oddly phrased question, I know. But basically, I notice at a lot of chinese restaurants that the vegetables that you might get on top of your cantonese chow mein (among other dishes) has a fairly clear, slightly gooey sauce that they seem to be tossed in. I love Read more

How can I find quality vegitarian recipies?

I’m a very strict vegitarian. I won’t eat anything even cooked with meat, or anything that has something that might have something in it an animal had to die for.

I’d really like to know what to cook for myself. I can find the raw materials, but so many recipies Read more

How do Chinese restaurants have 140 different menu items?

I am curious about this. How do Chinese restaurants have so many different dishes to offer? I know they have a variety of beef, chicken, shrimp etc, sauces and seasonings, and vegetables. I am just amazed by how quickly they can make up whatever you order. Do they prepare a Read more

recipies?!?

Can I please have like a lot of recipies? Like 30 and almost all from a different catagore?! The won that comes closest to 30 WIth a lot from different catagories like salads and meet dishes and desserts and pastas and so on gets best answer! And be creative please Read more