chinese food

My roommates decided to go run some errands and picked up some Chinese food for lunch for the apartment.

Never will you find a cheaper, better value food with bearable taste. $5 for more food than I should have eaten by myself. Chinese food is almost always cheap, almost always in MEGA sized portions, and almost always easy to reheat and enjoy later.

I won't exactly say that Chinese is my favorite by far, but I am fascinated by Asian cuisine. I had my first experience with Thai food a couple of weeks ago, and it was quite enjoyable. I am fascinated with the flavors, the style of cooking, everything.

My only problem with Chinese and other Asian delicacies is that apparently, we don't have the real thing here in the States. My roommate always tells me that American Chinese food is fake and no one cooks that way in China. My roommate being Chinese, I think I should take the opportunity to try to get him to teach me how to cook "authentic" Chinese food.