I didn't do quite as well on this one.
[ETA - I'm updating this after my 2 1/2 months in Indonesia & SE Asia. Unsurprirsingly, there's a lot to add.]
- Almond milk
- Ants Climbing a Tree (poetic, not literal, name)
- Asian pear
- Baby bok choy
- Baijiu
- Beef brisket
- Beggar's Chicken
- Bingtang hulu
- Bitter melon
- Bubble tea - my favorite
- Buddha's Delight
- Cantonese roast duck
- Century egg, or thousand-year egg - not so bad, actually.
- Cha siu (Cantonese roast pork)
- Char kway teow - Indonesia
- Chicken feet - a little chewy for my taste
- Chinese sausage
- Chow mein
- Chrysanthemum tea
- Claypot rice
- Congee - (aka bubur ayam, in Indonesia. Pretty sure I also had it at a Vietnamese pace in Philly once.)
- Conpoy (dried scallops)
- Crab rangoon
- Dan Dan noodles
- Dragonfruit
- Dragon's Beard candy
- Dried cuttlefish - no, but I saw a vendor with a cart of them
- Drunken chicken
- Dry-fried green beans
- Egg drop soup
- Egg rolls
- Egg tart, Cantonese or Macanese
- Fresh bamboo shoots - picked 'em myself in Laos
- Fortune cookies
- Fried milk
- Fried rice - the only Chinese food I'd eat until age 10 or so, when I discovered wonton soup.
- Gai lan (Chinese broccoli)
- General Tso's Chicken
- Gobi Manchurian
- Goji berries (Chinese wolfberries)
- Grass jelly - I think so.
- Hainan chicken rice
- Hand-pulled noodles
- Har gau (steamed shrimp dumplings in translucent wrappers)
- Haw flakes
- Hibiscus tea aka jamaica aka Red Zinger
- Hong Kong-style Milk Tea
- Hot and sour soup
- Hot Coca-Cola with Ginger -????
- Hot Pot
- Iron Goddess tea (Tieguanyin)
- Jellyfish
- Kosher Chinese food
- Kung Pao Chicken
- Lamb skewers (yangrou chua'r) - street vendor in Flushing
- Lion's Head meatballs
- Lomo Saltado
- Longan fruit
- Lychee
- Macaroni in soup with Spam - eew?
- Malatang
- Mantou, especially if fried and dipped in sweetened condensed milk
- Mapo Tofu - my current favorite thing ever
- Mock meat
- Mooncake (bonus points for the snow-skin variety)
- Nor mai gai (chicken and sticky rice in lotus leaf)
- Pan-fried jiaozi
- Peking duck
- Pineapple bun - (the Indonesian variety)
- Prawn crackers - krupuk udang, served at nearly every meal in Malang
- Pu'er tea
- Rambutan
- Red bean in dessert form - once, as a child, thinking it was chocolate - never again.
- Red bayberry
- Red cooked pork
- Roast pigeon
- Rose tea
- Roujiamo
- Scallion pancake
- Shaved ice dessert
- Sesame chicken
- Sichuan pepper in any dish - Sichuan pepper in every dish!
- Sichuan preserved vegetable (zhacai)
- Silken tofu
- Soy milk, freshly made
- Steamed egg custard
- Stinky tofu
- Sugar cane juice - with lemon in a Singapore hawker center
- Sweet and sour pork, chicken, or shrimp
- Taro like a cross between a potato and an apple, except delicious. Helped harvest them in a little village in Java.
- Tea eggs
- Tea-smoked duck
- Turnip cake (law bok gau)
- Twice-cooked pork
- Water chestnut cake (mati gau)
- Wonton noodle soup
- Wood ear - I'm pretty sure
- Xiaolongbao (soup dumplings)
- Yuanyang (half coffee, half tea, Hong Kong style)
- Yunnan goat cheese
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