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Cantonese snails / periwinkles [split from L.A. board]
Chandavski mentioned something about the Fujian province being the poorest of the poor. But can you actually get periwinkles in the shell in LA?
Cantonese snails / periwinkles [split from L.A. board]
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Animal_Care/Snail_shells_with_round_or_oval_openings
It doesn't list the periwinkle with the Pacific Ocean just the Atlantic. Could this be the answer to why this dish isn't served on the West Coast?
Cantonese snails / periwinkles [split from L.A. board]
Notmartha you must be correct, the snails in NYC Chinatown look exactly like periwinkles so they must be.
Cantonese snails / periwinkles [split from L.A. board]
I just found out snails in NYC Chinatown are in fact periwinkles.
Snails w. Black Bean Sauce
Clinton, thats exactly the snails I'm talking about!
I'm very excited to take many of the recs that you all have given. But is the SGV actually LA?
Snails w. Black Bean Sauce
Well there is no disagreement that Chin Chin and the like aren't anything special. But I can also say that the general average Chinese restaurant in the NYC area is better than the general average Chinese restaurant in LA. Is this really disputable? I'd like to hear what average places in Hollywood/BH area are up to snuff. The hot and sour soup usually used too much vinegar, the chicken used is usually dark meat and so on.
As for more speciality restaurants I will hold of any more broad generalizations until I try some of the restaurants listed above.
Snails w. Black Bean Sauce
Thanks for the responses. But to you Angelinos who have eaten Chinese food in NYC, do you feel its better in a general sense in NYC? LA has great Mexican, Korean, Thai and Japanese - better and more interesting menus than NYC. I'm going to try some of the places recommended above, but I still get the sense I won't find Chinese food (and Italian) as good as NYC.
Snails w. Black Bean Sauce
I'm going to try some of those. Thank you.
But have you ever heard of or had snails with black bean sauce in LA?
Snails w. Black Bean Sauce
I'm a native New Yorker and grew up going to Chinatown in Manhattan - but now I live in LA. There is a dish, Snails with Black Bean sauce that I cannot find in LA (or SF for that matter).
Does anyone know why this dish isn't offered in LA? It seems the complexity and detail of NYC Chinatown cuisine: Flounder in bird's nest shell, lobster with ginger and scallion, lo-mein with mee fun noodle, even the desserts such as mixed nut square and black bean pie and many many more aren't offered in LA. Yes I've tried LA's Chinatown and it really doesn't offer this type of detailed menu.
And on another level the Chinese food in LA just isn't as good. Chin Chin, PF Chang's and Xian offer some decent general Chinese food, but for the most part the Chinese food in LA is sort of disgusting and Americanized, which doesn't make sense cause there is such a big Chinese population. You can go to almost any Chinese restaurant in the NYC area and you can at least get a decent bowl of Hot & Sour soup.
I'm not trying to be a snob, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this.
