Guys, I need your serious OPINION! I am designing a menu for a Chinese take away resturant.?

Question

Can u please suggest some dishes or combo. Do u think the ideal of healthy chinese dishes will work? like steam dim sum istead of fried spring roll.

My friends like any chinese dishes with sweat and sour sauce, and everywhere is selling the sweat and sour pork or similar dishes. Is that what people really like?

Answer 1

Dim sum is nice, but they usually charge a lot.  I like the recipe for the honey chicken in Australia.  It's different than the one in the US.  Maybe more chicken recipes for those who don't eat red meat.  Sweet & sour is nice, but sometimes the pork gets too chewy.  Good luck!

Answer 2

people like appealing food

fresh ingredients

tasty

less/no MSG

offer the spicy sauces/mustard/chili/etc

Answer 3

people like all kinds of different stuff...personally i dont like the sweet and sour stuff as much as plain old chicken with broccoli. maybe you should look at the menus at some other restaurants for ideas?

Answer 4

No gotta have fried too.  I love San Choy Bow

Answer 5

Try Moo Goo Gai Pan:

Chicken, Bok Choi, Water Chestnuts, Sugar Snap Peas, in a white gravy.

Answer 6

If you want to make money, forget about having a healthy menu.

Customers may not be smart, but a restaurant owner ought to be!

Answer 7

Why  not go and ask the chinese peopel that have stalls in food halls what is the most popular dishes? research is paramount for any new business

Here in WA noodles are really popular, those sweet pork ribs (the bright red ones) satay is a big favourite, chicken with cashew/vegetables/lemon/black bean always popular

It honestly depends on the chef, is he chinese?

Good luck with it all

Answer 8

There was a restaurant in San Antonio TX that served 3 different types of menus for their Chinese restaurant.

Korean and Mexican.  Look around at the neighborhood that you are going to open up in what kind of ethnic people are around there.  Can you cater to another group as well and expand your menu.

Answer 9

I do a dish i call it shock in a wok

i put the usual bean sprouts noodles and add soy sauce

5 spice ginger garlic spring onions and meat or fish of your choice

goes great with prawns or chicken.

If you like a kick add chillies

Answer 10

You are on the money. I avoid Chinese like the plague, because it's all western styled fatty versions. I only go to Thai, it's steamed, healthy and delicious. I search for Chinese that is healty, cause there are some great combinations of flavour there. Why don't you consider the growing premium market and have a really tasteful decor, dine in only and a great wine list?

Answer 11

i think sweet and sour is really popular. there is a chinese restaurant near me that has teriyaki chicken on their menu. however, they never sell it to me when i ask. they always say that they dont have it right now. i dont know that thats all about. however, there is a place by me that has a section on their menu called the Pacific Tastes or something like that. it has items that aren't strictly chinese... like the teriyaki chicken... some popular vietnamese and korean dishes. i'm not sure if your restaurant is going for straight chinese, but it is nice to find some other options on the menu as well.

i'm adding this:.. there used to be this one chinese place in my local mall that sold plain fried rice that had egg, peas and carrots in it... ive never found another place that will just sell you fried rice like that. when you ask for plain fried rice in some places.. they just brown up some rice and not put anything else in it.. i always thought it made a nice snack.

Answer 12

garlic prawns

beef curry

chicken & cashew

i could keep going

Answer 13

instead of fried spring roll, i prefer fried wanton much more...yummy! dim-sum is good & cha sao pao too! Beside sweet & sour pork, chicken and fish is delicious too...spicy & sour will be better..haha!

Answer 14

well, a lot of people do like sweet&sour pork, the usual stuff, deep fried anything, etc.  However, I do think a restaurant that leaned toward healthier Asian dishes could get quite a following if they are yummy and not just rabbit food.  I like steamed dim sum.  Pot Stickers can be made with just a bit of spray oil (like Pam).  Some other healthy but yummy dishes are moo goo gai pan, with white rice (or rice mixture, white, brown, wild), chicken satay, almond chicken (not the breaded, fried kind, the kind with steamed chicken breast), and ginger/lemongrass chicken.  Also, if lean pork is used (true, higher prices, but healthy food does tend to cost more) there's no reason sweet and sour pork has to be out, along with traditional barbecue pork.  Anyway, these are just some of the chicken ideas that I think would be popular.  And pork with chile paste, red wine, brown sugar and garlic with green onion and bamboo over wild rice is way yummy, but maybe not a take out thing.  I know if you had a place here with lower fat Asian food, I'd be ordering 2 or 3 nights a week.  Best of luck... -Rick

Answer 15

Well when I get chinese food I usually get jumbo shrimp and sweet and sour pork. I don't like chow mein, and I like white rice better then fried.

Answer 16

the dishes i prefer are:

sweet & sour pork

honey chicken

beef & black bean

a personally enjoy alot of medium spicy stirfries....along those sort of lines

Answer 17

Steamed is good.

I like salt and pepper squid. specially when it's not over the top salty.

I also like a really nice satay with crunchy bean shoots.