Do you mean Chinese or American Chinese?

For American Chinese, I'd say Mu Shu anything is my favorite. It's shredded pork (or other meat/fish/poultry), cabbage, bean sprouts, scrambled eggs, woodear mushrooms and garlic with a savory sauce of rice wine, soy sauce, toasted sesame oil and other flavorings. It's served in crepes with plum, oyster, or duck sauce. Kind of like Chinese burritos.

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As for authentic Chinese, it's still pretty rare in the U.S. One thing I remember eating in a college town where one of the restaurants had been reviewed in the Singapore food magazine was a black soybean appetizer. It was black soybeans in a clear, piquant sauce that certainly had rice wine vinegar in it, but I don't know what else. It was excellent, and I'd have gladly made a whole meal of it. The fish that followed it was also good, but much more complicated--it involved star anise and orange slices, among other things.

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