Ten Best Main Dishes/Foods in the World

Hey guys, hope my cousin and successor isn't pissing you guys off too much... he sure pissed me off tonight, taking my money in our family's thanksgiving hold'em game...

While I have some spare time... I think I should talk about my favorite topic: FOOD!!!

My Ten Best Dishes/Foods in the World

10. Peking Duck--crunchy, can be sweet or sour depending on the sauce, and clogs my arteries? And duck soup is real nice too. Plus, I love the way you get to assemble your food by hand with duck--gives a great degree of flexibility and personal choice, which is real cool in food.
9. 皮蛋瘦肉粥--if cooked well (not too salty, no MSG please) then this is a great and flexible dish that goes well as an appetizer, quick brunch, or snack, or even can replace congee that usually accompanies a traditional Chinese dinner.
8. Baked rigatoni with sweet/spicy Italian sausage drenched in creamy alfredo sauce--when I worked in New York, there was this little Italian place below my apartment that served this stuff, for only like $6 per plate. It was so good...creamy, doughy, meaty, spicy, rich (as only NY food can be)... and they were open 24 hours, 6 days a week; brings back memories of pulling 18 hour days at my i-banking firm, and getting back to a nice, hot home-cooked italian meal at 3 in the morning. So good.
7. 水煮鱼... If you don't know what this is, you haven't spent time in Beijing at all. This is one of the best winter foods ever--nothing gets you through the dreary, gray, polluted winter like a warm bowl of oil, chilis, and hearty chunks of fish. Although I wish the fish had less spines... and I wish the restaurant gave you two antacids to go along with the food.
6. Caviar--hands down so good it's crazy--I have to agree with Ivan here; the collapse of the USSR was a good thing in that Russians could export more of this good shit to the rest of the world. Although Finnish burbot is pretty good too. Have you ever put caviar on croissants? GOOD. GOOD. GOOD.
5. 铁板黑椒牛柳... tender beef in a great sauce with black pepper and bell peppers. As I found out while growing up in SoCal, bell peppers are a perfect counterpart to beef and black pepper just adds that extra kick that I love so much. And plus, it's barely 15 RMB per portion in the restaurant below my current apartment, and only takes like 10 minutes to order. awesome.
4. 羊肉串... a delicious, easy to prepare, and cheap food. Very good when I have ten minutes to cook and five minutes to eat, plus holds its flavor pretty well. I buy these uncooked and fry them myself. nothing like the guiran to bolster and guide the rich, musky flavor of lamb meat.
3. Beef wellingtons/other good forms of filet mignon... some people like the rib, and others prefer the porterhouse/T-bone or sirloin, but in my humble opinion, the filet mignon is still the undisputed king of beef. And I love it, especially when it's cooked to rare or medium rare, and then left alone, served fresh, or sprinkled with some good spices...
A Beef wellington is a filet mignon wrapped in a pastry crust, swimming in a pate de foie gras. Quite simply, gluttony at its finest.
2. 梅菜扣肉... meaty mei cai on steamed in a bowl on top of some fatty pork (preferably belly meat a.k.a. 五花肉）. So rich, so nice, goes with rice and mantou...so rich, so delicious.
1. 涮羊肉--I am a semi-purist in terms of this dish. Sorry, I don't want beef, no pork, and I'll whack you if you order chicken. The only meats I will place into that pot are beef tripe and mutton. Jins and jins of it. And screw that wussy "yuan yan" pot with the spicy and non-spicy halves. The only way to cook is the good way, which means lots and lots of chili paste with spices that go well with spicy food, in lots of lamb stock and with blood mixed in. Also, freshly slaughtered lamb is definitely preferable to pre-frozen lamb rolls. Once, me and a few colleagues went for a KTV/swimming/sauna thing, after which we ate about 5 kilos of mutton cooked this way. Add some tsingtao beer to wash this down, please, along with noodles to cook in the pot once we're pretty much full of lamb meat, and you have a great meal.

I think my eating habits are the most unhealthy of anyone here.

Anyhow, this is as drunk as you'll see me on the forum.