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Message: [QUOTE="Travelman6, post: 2704778, member: 7597"] What is the best place that does authentic Chinese? I lived in China for two years and have yet to find a place that does Chinese food even close to some of the dishes I had in the different parts of China. I have found some decent/good places in the suburbs of DC in some of the smaller cities in the DMV. Most of the places I have been to in CT are just a sugary MSG mess, but I am open to trying a legit place next time I go back to visit family there. Well it really depends on where you were in China. I hated food from Chengdu and the general Sichuan region but food in Guilin/Yangshuo and the general Guangxi region was really good IMO. Wuhan (Hubei) kind of mixes the different sytles from multiple regions in the country, it can mix salty, sweet, spicy, etc. Guangzhou (Guangdong) is probably the region with food most similar to what Americans are used to/most similar to American Chinese. Food way up in the northeast in a place like Harbin (Heilongjang) for sure has a Russian twist in some of its dishes. If you go to Jilin you might find food somewhat related to Korean food. I found food in Hunan to be quite spicy. Some of the snacks and street food I had in Hebei province I could not find anywhere else in China, sadly, because I liked some of the street food there. You can also try Muslim Chinese food in a place like Xian but can have even more authentic versions of that in Xinjiang. There, for sure, is not a unified cuisine in a country as grand as China. I was not the biggest fan of food in Beijing or something like the Beijing duck but the city also does a decent job of including food from all around the country. Yunnan I was just in for 5 days but it reminded me of a healthier less sweet version of Cantonese with a lot of noodles and mushrooms. I found an Indian place I liked in kunming though so I ate there a lot. Where in China did you go? [/QUOTE]

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