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Q: If you had a top five favorite cuisine list, where would you rank Chinese?
Here's mine
1. Indian
2. Italian
3. Chinese (specifically Cantonese food)
4. Korean
5. Mexican
1. Italian
2. Chinese
3. American
4. Mexican
5. Malaysian
1. Italian
2. Thai
3. Chinese
4. American
5. Japanese
1. Wife and mother-in-law's Chinese food. Yeah, I hate the Monkey-in-law, but she can cook a mean dish. The wife has surpassed her now, but rarely cooks these days.
2. American food.
3. Italian
4. Mexican
5. Japanese 
1: American, seriously won't you rather have steak, lobster, turkey with dressing, caesar salad, sour cream
2: Italian
3: American Chinese
4: Greek
5: Chinese (and not all of it)
1. Aussie - as in BBQ's and roast lamb with roast vegies, crayfish and prawns.
2. Italian (spaghetti bog, ravioli, pizza, lamborghini, ferrari, il papa, gina lollabrigida)
3. Thai
4. Japanese
5. French
6. Hungarian
Talk about a biased question. You automatically assume that everybody lists Chinese as one of the world's top foods.
The fact is, while some Chinese food is great, overall, it leaves quite a lot to be desired. Also, there are many different styles of Chinese food, from the many different cultures, and some of it is downright inedible.
That's without taking issues of food safety and hygiene into account.
easyrider:
Your comments are understandable and if you don't think Chinese is in your top five then my advice would be to simply ignore the question. On the quesiton of bias, your comments about some of it "leaving a lot to be desired" and being "downright inedible" don't exactly sound objective, but I'll stop there as not to initiate yet another Traveler hissy fit.
TedDBayer:
I found normal Chinese food completely lacking, just simple food. It's mostly based on famine cuisine. I've often wondered how squiimish tourists react to having heads, feet and bone splinters in there food. I laughed. Even in better restaurants food leaves alot to be desired. I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I ordered Peking Duck and it was just skin. I found one dumpling that I liked, dough mostly egg, but I was afraid to even guess what the filling was. Give me homemade perogies and sour cream. And sanitation?? when even the Chinese want to rinse their wrapped dinner plates with tea? I ask why, get the- you don't know China.
Traveler:
Easy: You didn't get the answer you tried to lead people into, so you attack the reply as non-objective, and make a personal attack trying to belittle the person who didn't bend to your way of thinking. Sounds 100% unbiased to me (not), and more than a little Chinese.
:
As a third party to this issue, let me just say:
Easy: not the best question I've ever seen.
Traveler: Chill out dude. Not everyone's a wumao out to get you.
Oh, and btw,
1 Japanese
2 Mexican
3 Italian
4 Indian
5 Thai
Traveler:
Tang: I never mentioned the word wumao, nor accused him of being such. Did you get that impression of him?
Chinese wouldn't be in my top 5, but then again neither would any American 'influenced' foods, e.g. I love genuine Italian, but not the American Italian food. My problem with American food? Too much, too heavy, too fattening, of course there must be exceptions I haven't come across but every time I've eaten in USA either in restaurants or at family homes the meals have been huge and not very healthy.
The trouble with Chinese cuisine, in the UK at least, is even my wife says it all tastes the same! And in China there are so many different styles I hesitate to label it 'Chinese' but most is just, meh, OK, certainly not a 'wow' food. Honourable mentions to Hunan & Sichuan style food but I haven't tried enough to say it's a favourite.
My personal top 5 styles:
1. Greek Cypriot (Kebab, Meze)
2. French
3. Italian
4. Balkan
5. Thai / Japanese (tied cannot separate which I prefer the most).
