China Garden Restaurant-Houston's Best Chinese since 1969

Chinese Food Guide What can you expect to eat in a real Chinese restaurant in Beijing ?  Well, for the most part, its nothing like the Chinese food you've come to expect in your local Chinese take-out back home.  This is the real deal.  However, most menus are completely in Chinese and daunting even for someone who's studied Chinese for many years.  To help you out, we've prepared this handy guide for your convenience.  You can memorize the pronunciation using our audio clips, or just print out, cut into pieces and hand to your waiter. Beijing Roast Duck or Peking Duck as it was once referred to.  The specialty of Beijing.  Slices of mainly roast duck skin with plum sauce, spring onion strips and little pancakes. Hot spicy diced chicken.  Green peppers and boneless chicken in a hot gravy. Hot spicy diced chicken.  Red peppers, boneless chicken with roasted peanuts in a hot gravy. (usually not quite as spicy as Lazi Jiding) Really spicy, deep fried, bite sized chunks of chicken including bone.  Often so much bone that there is not much meat content left, but varies from place to place. Strips of beef brought to the table on a sizzling hot iron platter. Sometimes pepper flavored, sometimes has a tomato flavor. Whole fish sliced and boiled in a very spicy oil and water mix with red chillis.  Chillis are usually fished out of the soup mixture at your table before you start eating. Pork shredded and cooked in a Beijing special sauce.  Served with some kind of tofu sheets to make little parcels with. Flattened, boneless chicken breast, bread crumbed and deep fried.  A bit like what the Australian's call a chicken schnitzel. Boneless lamb pieces, no sauce as such, more of just a light seasoning. Sweet and sour pork tenders. Sweet corn and pine nuts. Lettuce in gravy. Some kind of Chinese lettuce variety. Spinach cooked with egg.   Another kind of green leafy vegetable, cooked plain. Plain boiled white rice. Egg fried rice.