Your preferred beer for Chinese food?
 

Which beers do you find to be a good match for a meal of Chinese food? I have found this one usually goes pretty well.

The correct answer is Tsingtao!

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Thats right! Though, I dont eat much Chinese food.
Sapporo if Im having sushi.

Pilsners, wheat beers, belgian goldens.

Tsingtao.

Sapporo...it is a world class lager by any standards and is the oldest brand of beer in Japan (or, at least, i believe this to be the case...correct me if i am wrong)

i love it with any oriental food...sushi, chinese, thai...it goes with them all.

i have tried a few brands of chinese beer, and none of them come up to Sapporo.

Tea.

I don't enjoy alcohol and food together.

Whilst I agree with the above two posts, I have had the occasional Belgian White with Chinese, and it's nice.

Kolsch

I second the Belgian beer.

I don't have Chinese restaurant food often (Though I love Chinese fast food.), but when I go to Chinese, Korean and Japanese restaurants, they usually serve up golden wheat style beers. That seems to be the appropriate choice for the food pairing.

Tsingtao of course.

I like IPA's with really hot/spicy Chinese food.

I love both IPA's and spicy food, and their bold tastes certainly hold up to one another, but together they're a bit much on my stomach. I prefer a clean pilsner or other yellow fizzy lager with the spicy spice.

That aside, I almost always try to pair food with one of it's native drinks. I believe food and drink naturally evolve together in a region and almost always pair up perfectly that way.

I've never really considered beer with chinese food, more often than not I only have water or tea to drink at a chinese restaurant. I'm not too fond of tea or any hot beverage, but when in rome.

I'll join the Tsingtao club.



I like tea or coca-cola more though.


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Right, whatever sort of food you are eating, tends to pair well with whatever is traditional for that style/culture. I wouldn't order a German beer with tacos, I'd get a Cervesa. Gotta have red wine with pasta, too.

Btw, though I'm not much of a hop head, IPAs are good with jalapeno burgers!

Kirin Ichiban for me, but guess I gotta give Sapporo a shot next time we're out.

Peace,
Greg