Welcome to the Good Chinese Food Guide. Chinese cuisine offers unlimited options created from the wok. Health conscious meals include lots of vegetables, fish, and lean cuts of meat as well as sushi. Slivers of salmon or butter flied shrimp on sticky rice and including California rolls prepared by sushi masters from fine restaurants. The Good Chinese Food Guide is the best place to find authentic Chinese food dining options and menu choices.

WHAT IS GOOD CHINESE FOOD…
Chicken Cashew – chicken with cashews in a brown sauce.
Chop Suey - vegetables and meat in a brown sauce.
Chow Mein - stir-fried noodles with chicken, beef, pork or shrimp.
Crab Rangoon - fried wontons stuffed with crabmeat and cream cheese.
Egg Drop Soup- chicken broth with scrambled egg ribbons
Egg Foo Young - chinese-style omelet with a brown sauce.
Egg roll - fried and stuffed with cabbage
General Tso's Chicken –chicken with ginger, garlic, sesame oil, scallions
Kung Pao Chicken - authentic spicy Sichuan dish
Lemon Chicken - chicken seasoned with lemon
Lo Mein - pan fried noodles with vegetables and meat.
Mongolian Beef - stir-fried with scallions in a brown sauce.
Moo Shu Pork - thin flour pancakes with vegetables.
Orange Chicken - chicken seasoned with orange.
Peking Duck - the trademark dish of Beijing
Sesame Chicken - chicken in a sweet and spicy sauce.
Shaobing - a flaky baked or pan-seared dough pastry.
Sweet and Sour Pork - seasoned with a sweet and sour sauce.
Wonton Soup - wonton dumplings served in broth
Zongzi - rice wrapped in bamboo leaves with a savory or sweet filling

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The Fortune Cookie…
The Fortune Cookie is a delicate, crisp cookie made from flour, sugar, butter, vanilla, and milk which is baked around a fortune, a piece of paper with words of wisdom. The message inside may also include a list of lucky numbers and a Chinese phrase with translation. Fortune Cookies were invented in California and San Francisco and Los Angeles both claim to have invented them in the early 1900's.

THE FACTS ABOUT MSG…
MSG - Monosodium glutamate is a sodium salt of glutamic acid, It was discovered and patented in 1909 by Ajinomoto Corporation in Japan. MSG is a naturally occurring amino acid that stimulates specific receptors located in taste buds, which induce one of the five basic tastes referred to as "savory" or "meaty". It is produced by fermentation of starch, sugar beets, sugar cane, or molasses. Used in Chinese restaurants, it is now more often found in many of the most common food products consumed in the US:
- Most canned soups
- Most beef and chicken stocks
- Most flavored potato chip
- Many other snack foods
- Many frozen dinners
- Almost all US-originated fast foods
- Seasoning mixtures for instant noodles.

MSG symptom complex - Because MSG is absorbed very quickly it could spike blood plasma levels of glutamate. Glutamic acid is in a class of chemicals known as excitotoxins. It is also known that the glutamate ion is important in memory retrieval in humans. The Food and Drug Administration classified MSG as a "generally recognized as safe", but that reactions of brief duration might occur in some people. An unknown percentage of the population may react to MSG and develop MSG symptom complex, a condition characterized by one or more of the following symptoms:
- Burning sensation in the back of the neck, forearms and chest
- Numbness in the back of the neck, radiating to the arms and back
- Tingling, warmth and weakness in the face, temples, upper back, neck and arms
- Facial pressure or tightness
- Chest pain
- Headache
- Nausea
- Rapid heartbeat
- Difficulty breathing
- Drowsiness
- Weakness

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