100 Chinese Foods to Try Before You Die

Okay, here's another list from Appetite from China!

1. Almond milk- mmm so tasty on a cold winter day
   
2. Ants Climbing a Tree (poetic, not literal, name)
3. Asian pear
4. Baby bok choy- flavors soups so well
   
5. Baijiu
6. Beef brisket
7. Beggar's Chicken
8. Bingtang hulu
9. Bitter melon- I grew to like this
   
10. Bubble tea- I dunno why they don't it this in LA
    
11. Buddha's Delight
12. Cantonese roast duck
13. Century egg, or thousand-year egg
14. Cha siu (Cantonese roast pork)- 1.5 lbs can be stretched to at least 3 meals per person, great way to save money!
    
15. Char kway teow
16. Chicken feet- none of my friends like it except me, so more for me!!
    
17. Chinese sausage
18. Chow mein
19. Chrysanthemum tea
20. Claypot rice
21. Congee
22. Conpoy (dried scallops)
23. Crab rangoon- huh what is this?
    
24. Dan Dan noodles
25. Dragonfruit- I love this stuff!
    
26. Dragon's Beard candy
27. Dried cuttlefish- mmm its like fishy jerky, hehe
    
28. Drunken chicken
29. Dry-fried green beans
30. Egg drop soup
31. Egg rolls
32. Egg tart, Cantonese or Macanese
33. Fresh bamboo shoots
34. Fortune cookies- sold too many in high school for CSF (remember those days Susan!)
    
35. Fried milk
36. Fried rice
37. Gai lan (Chinese broccoli)
38. General Tso's Chicken
39. Gobi Manchurian
40. Goji berries (Chinese wolfberries)
41. Grass jelly- I ate this instead of regular Jell-o when growing up
    
42. Hainan chicken rice- I love this stuff!!
    
43. Hand-pulled noodles
44. Har gau (steamed shrimp dumplings in translucent wrappers)
45. Haw flakes- everytime my family went to get "thuoc bac" there'd always be a few thingys of haw flakes in the bag for me :)
    
46. Hibiscus tea
47. Hong Kong-style Milk Tea- I want to try the real thing someday!
    
48. Hot and sour soup- JJ makes the best!
    
49. Hot Coca-Cola with Ginger- what?! This sure sounds like a chinese thing though...drinking beverages hot and making it "warm" with ginger
    
50. Hot Pot
51. Iron Goddess tea (Tieguanyin)
52. Jellyfish
53. Kosher Chinese food
    
54. Kung Pao Chicken
55. Lamb skewers (yangrou chua'r)
56. Lion's Head meatballs
57. Lomo Saltado- this is chinese?
    
58. Longan fruit- I had it in Vietnam though, haha.
    
59. Lychee- same as above
    
60. Macaroni in soup with Spam
61. Malatang
62. Mantou, especially if fried and dipped in sweetened condensed milk
63. Mapo Tofu
64. Mock meat
65. Mooncake (bonus points for the snow-skin variety)- i looooove mooncake
    
66. Nor mai gai (chicken and sticky rice in lotus leaf)
67. Pan-fried jiaozi
68. Peking duck- mmm
    
69. Pineapple bun
70. Prawn crackers
71. Pu'er tea
72. Rambutan- mmm, I like it even better than lychee
    
73. Red bean in dessert form
74. Red bayberry
75. Red cooked pork
76. Roast pigeon
77. Rose tea
78. Roujiamo
79. Scallion pancake- you know me too well, yes I did pick out all the scallions
80. Shaved ice dessert
81. Sesame chicken
82. Sichuan pepper in any dish
83. Sichuan preserved vegetable (zhacai)
84. Silken tofu
85. Soy milk, freshly made- yes at Noodle House...too bad they aren't in business anymore
    
86. Steamed egg custard- at Phoenix
    
87. Stinky tofu
88. Sugar cane juice
89. Sweet and sour pork, chicken, or shrimp
90. Taro
91. Tea eggs
92. Tea-smoked duck
93. Turnip cake (law bok gau)
94. Twice-cooked pork
95. Water chestnut cake (mati gau)- yummy! too bad no one ever eats this when I order it at a group dim sum meal. I feel bad ordering stuff no one really shares, haha.
    
96. Wonton noodle soup
97. Wood ear
98. Xiaolongbao (soup dumplings)- Tasty!
    
99. Yuanyang (half coffee, half tea, Hong Kong style)
100. Yunnan goat cheese

Woohoo, 73 out of 100! Not bad. Jenta, what was your number? Must be higher esp since you lived in China that summer! Let's see how I do on the vietnamese one. To be continued...