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My favorite would be the jiaozi (dumplings) we would make every Sunday when I was growing up. A close second would be za jiang mien...which I'm sad to say I haven't had in years.

Mongolian beef (spicy)

chinese string beans!

great site!

mu shu pork is pretty sweet

hmm...dau fu fa, served cold. Oh yum! Oh, and the black vinegar-ginger soup with pig feet/knuckles and boiled eggs. I don't know what it was called, but a friend made a pot for me after the birth of my first child. It tasted amazing to me at the time.

Tea smoked chicken, so fragrant, delicate and succulent!

Eggplant noodles with e-fu sauce. Sigh.

My favorite would be pork dumplings in spicy broth, and almond cookies.

Clams in Black Bean Sauce

Xiang Luo Bu Si (Sounding Radish Slivers) and General Tso's Chicken (Fuschia's version is amazing!).

Any super spicy lo-mein, really spicy!

Beef and bitter melon in black bean sauce over rice. Lots of garlic and black beans, please!

My dad's homemade jiao zi (dumplings). No doubt.

I'm another fan of Sichuan dry-fried string beans, but I think my favorite dish is the bean curd skin rolls (Sin Chet Kuen) we get at dim sum.

My mom's scallion flatbreads--Cong You Bing. Hers are yeast raised. I've never seen any like hers in any restaurants.

now that I've left China after living there for a year, I have to say I really miss having liang pi all the time in this warm weather...

I had a friend in high school whose mom made these delicious rice flour balls with red bean paste inside. They were like jin deui, but not deep-fried and not rolled in sesame seeds. In any case, they were delicious. I love mapo dofu also...and mu shu vegetables...

roast duck...yum

Roast duck with rice. Heaven.

I love any kind of boiled dumplings and there was this one restaurant in the Hongmiao district of Beijing that had the most amazing gong bao tofu - it was fried and crispy, with spicy sauce and crunchy peanuts. They also did a really good basi (caramelized) banana.

I truly enjoy beef and broccoli take-out.

when i lived in berkeley, i used to adore a dish called sweet rice en crock that was served at a taiwanese restaurant downtown. it had black mushrooms and slow cooked pork in a dark sauce on top of a mound of sticky rice. it was soooo delicious! i used to dream of ordering ten and eating them all by myself.

there was another restaurant in albany, the next town over, that had amazing spicy shrimp and sauteed chicken livers with scallions.

somehow that salad i just had for dinner isn't cutting it anymore.

Nothing new: crispy duck skin in moo shu pancakes with green onion and a little bit of hoisen sauce.

Though, I have to admit, I also love stuffing my face with garlic noodles (chop sticks only. No forks.)

any kind of braised pig offal!

Plain bok choy in garlic sauce.

pork dumplings with soy sauce and ginger. Yum.

Cyercita,

I'll have to ask my mom. I don't think she uses any recipe though.

Pork Lo Mein and Sichuan Green Beans!

MMMMM.... you win sum, you dim sum.....

Sorry, mind was grazing at the dim sum cart again....

I luv taro fritters... and pretty much any dumpling.... oh, and the pineapple duck fried rice at the Mayflower in Sacramento.....

So hard to choose, but here are my choices (at least for tonight):
-- xiao long bao from Nanxiang Dumpling House in Shanghai
-- my mom's fish or duck
-- dou jiang from a (can't remember the name) stall in Taipei that was so thick that a layer solidified after every sip
-- oyster pancake from anywhere in Si Ling Ye Shi in Taipei
-- lamb with cumin
-- da bing from street vendors in China
-- really, any street food in China, especially if it comes with carbs or is on a stick!

I guess it's a tie between pot stickers, Peking roast duck and prawns in black bean sauce. Oh, and Singapore noodles.

Being Chinese, I think my automatic response should be, "Ahh! EVERYTHING!" But if it has to be one, it's got to be the xiao long bao from Shanghai that are so filled with soup that the dumpling wrapper sags.

Shrimp with scrambled eggs
steamed chicken

Keeping in mind that my experience with Chinese food is limited to fairly mainstream North American restaurants, my two faves are vegetable shao bing (à la Roll and Dough in NYC) and hot-and-sour soup. I once ate four large orders of that soup in two days - actually, that was last week.

I only know the name in Shanghai-nese, and I guess the transliteration would be xiao long bao, small dumplings that are steamed and fried; the bottoms are super-crispy, there's scalding hot "soup" inside along with a meat filling, plus the normal bun wrapper on the top half - everything you could ever experience in a dumpling!

Tea-smoked duck

Orange beef.

I love chinese food especially in the cold seasons!
I like to start of with some flaky scallion or chinese pancake with a touch of hot sauce for dipping. Then continue on with some hot egg drop soup where the egg strands are extra long and slurpy. Next, for the main dish I like the spicy mau-po tofu with pineapple fried rice; the spiciness of the tofu complements the sweetness of the pineapple so well! Finally, I like to finish off with some sweet and creamy almond tea.

xiao long bao - the soup dumplings

As terribly pedestrian as it sounds: General Tso's Chicken.

Really though, I love it ALL.

Suan La Chow Show (Szechuan dumplings) from Mary Chang's restaurant in Cambridge, MA.

Yikes! Too hard to choose. As a whole, I'll take a big dim sum brunch over any particular dish, but I guess my current favorite single dish lately is General Tso's chicken made from from Fuchia Dunlop's amazing Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook recipe.

salt & pepper crispy prawns with hot peppers

Because it's oh so tasty, and it reminds me of the restaurant my family owned growing up, my uncle's beef and tendon noodle soup. No other recipe anywhere comes close with the perfect balance of spice, tomato, and star anise. I was over the moon the last time I went home to the Bay Area and found that my uncle had dropped off a huge pot of it for my sisters! It had been YEARS!

Chicken lo mein, and really anything that gets spicy and szechuan. And any Chinese food eaten with my family on Christmas eve is a winner.

Aui Zhou chicken is the best at a schezuan place. For hole in the wall Chinese I pick chicken with broccoli .

Roast Pork Bao.

Coincidentally, it is shark fin soup at a hilltop restaurant in Shinjuku, Japan that my friend takes me to every time we visit. *swoon*

Currently, it's la zi ji, the dry dish of fried chicken with lots and lots of dried chili peppers. Zippy!

It's a toss up...

Hay Wrapped Fragrant Ribs

Or

Steamed Frog On Lotus Leaf

mmmm

shrimp in garlic sauce

I love me some salt & pepper shrimp!

QUIT KILLING ALL THE DAMN SHARKS FOR THEIR FINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm still a sucker for pot stickers.

Shahe fen, aka 'Chow Fun' is my favorite 'go to' item in a Chinese restaurant, when they are obviously catering to American taste buds. Other that that I think cocks combs usually taste pretty good.

Steamed dumplings with ginger sauce

Wowzer, to pick one favorite, hahaha , that is hard !!! lol
I love hot & spicy fish and soup filled dumplings YUMMMM
Pamela

Deep fried tofu with pepper-salt

char siu bao

i cannot pick just one. Green onion pancake, taro coated duck, string beans, and deep fried soft tofu.

Peking Duck... hands down.

general tso's chicken.

my husband only likes kung pao chicken, but it has to come from Ding How in baltimore. he won't eat it anywhere else.

hot and sour seafood soup.. not too adventurous, but so good.

San Shan Jan Pong Noodle Soup at Eastern Lights in Durham, NC. Spicey, lots of seafood, and noodles you will want to write home about.

Roasted duck, chicken, ribs, char siu, squid, etc. anything that's hanging in the window when you enter- it goes great with everything (rice, noodles, porridge) and by itself as well. Yum!

Any kind of crispy whole fish. If that's on the menu, and I can convince a few other people to share it with me, I'll get that every time.

Steamed dumplings, General Tso chicken, Beef Lo Mein

Soup dumplings

peanut sesame noodles, like they used to make 'em at the Chinese restaurant of my childhood. finding them again (the restaurant has closed) is my white whale . . .