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Takeaway Chow Mein
#1
Takeaway Chow Mein
Alright, so. Just made my first attempt at chicken chow mein. It went well, really well but not by takeaway standards.
I added in a dab of msg to see if it would make a difference and while it did the taste was nowhere near as good as the China China down the road.
I suspect theres an ingredient I don't know about in the marinate. Any ideas as to what it might be?
I googled the shit out of this but got very little.
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#2
RE: Takeaway Chow Mein
vinegar?
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RE: Takeaway Chow Mein
Rice?
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#4
RE: Takeaway Chow Mein
Tincture of opium?
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RE: Takeaway Chow Mein
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#6
RE: Takeaway Chow Mein
I know what you mean. One of my main dishes is black bean sauce but Chinese dishes from the local take-away seem to have the shiny, glossy texture. I've heard that comes from soy beans but I'm not sure.

I throw in sesame oil, rice vinegar and either soy sauce or fish sauce for the salt.

Not that I can eat out any more because my husband suffers from an allergy to gluten and soy sauce normally contains gluten. I was a big fan of Thai food.
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#7
RE: Takeaway Chow Mein
Unfortunately, there is more than just the ingredients, and their proportions, to cooking.  There is the order things are done, and the temperature and duration of cooking, etc.

You might want to look at cookbook recipes for Chinese food to see if you can find something to your liking.

Regardless of what you find in cookbooks or recipes online (make sure you pay attention to techniques that are used), and regardless of whether it will be better or worse, it will not be the same as the takeout from your local restaurant unless you use the same ingredients in the same proportions made with the same techniques.  To learn that, you would have to see what they do in that particular restaurant.

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#8
RE: Takeaway Chow Mein
Nothing ever tastes the same as take away food. Some people consider that to be a good thing, but not with Chinese. Chinese is always better from a restaurant, I think.
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RE: Takeaway Chow Mein
(October 12, 2015 at 3:10 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: [Image: cute-cat-cute-kittens-9820698-456-417.jpg]

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(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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#10
RE: Takeaway Chow Mein
Hard to tell what you're missing without knowing what you used.

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