Does Chinese cooking smell bad?

[HamburgerBoy]

No, Chinese food smells great.

 

[essasin]

The only thing that may have an unslightly odor maybe the wontons. The filling and dough sometimes has a distinct smell but even then i wouldnt call it bad. Your roomate is def close minded. I would bring home some fermented tofu or some durian fruit and ask her if it stinks

edit: The dishes you described some really good to me

 

[Aquaman]

You need to show her you "lap cheung" 🙂

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[shinzwei]

If chinese food smeels wierd why do mexicans and blacks always go to a chinese buffet?

 

[DVK916]

You know what really stinks though, Korean food. Kim Chee smells worst than dog ******. Really digusting stuff those Koreans eat.

 

[HamSupLo]

hey OP, take a stand for your chinese brothers. don't let some white chick diss our cooking. i'd probably go berserk.

"for you, rice nothing. but for us, rice just like my father and mother"

 

[0roo0roo]

you cleaning the stove/cook surfaces adequately after cooking?

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: iamtrout
So my roommate's pissed off at me because she absolutely can't stand the smell of my cooking. She's even gone so far as to declare our kitchen a TEMPORARY kitchen, not to be used for real, everyday cooking... Since I'm Chinese, I suppose my food has odors that she's unaccustomed to.

There are all the dishes I've made so far:

1. Rice - regular white rice in a rice cooker, 50/50 long/short grain mix
2. Boiled meats in pot or pressure cooker. Sometimes meats like oxtail and tongue.
Water + Rice Wine + Soy Sauce + Ginger + Green Onions + Meat -> boil until tender and eat with rice
- is this dish weird? My parents cooked this way all the time. It's plain and simple but filling.
3. Pot Roast.
Chuck + Water + Potatoes + Carrots + Onion Powder + Paprika + French Onion Soup -> Crock Pot 10 hrs or pressure cooker 1hr.
- can this smell bad?
4. Wontons - homemade and frozen
Boiled
5. Reheated meats in the microwave from the Asian grocery store like roast pork and roast duck.

Again, I'm very very modest in what I can cook, and this is literally all there is. Can this small sample smell that bad to get my roommate pissed off? She's going on about she has to *tolerate* it every second of her existence. She even says she *tries* to live over at friends' houses to get away from the smell, and that it's taking a toll on her friendships too...

WTF?

You can come cook here any time you want.. Chinese cooking smells freaking great...
and im just a whiteboy but chinese is one of my fave in the entire world.
tell roommate to get over it..

 

[Pepsei]

what you need to do is use the power of all asian foods that smells and drive her away.

you start off with a plate of stinky tofu with korean kimcee
then papaya salad with fish sauce
curry beef with GM corns and peas
a side of natto
end with durian slices

 

[EngenZerO]

sometimes...

 

[sao123]

I think you should teach us all to cook chinese and we can tell for ourselves if it stinks.



Fried rice
chicken lo mein
chicken w broccoli
general tso chicken (spicy)
egg roll
sesame chicken

 

[Schadenfreude]

No offense, but after that whole catfish debacle, I think I'm going to hold off on siding with one person; but what do your other friends think? I'm assuming you have other friends who actually come over, to, you know, interact with and stuff?