BLIND TASTE TEST: Green Dragon VS Lidl's self raising flour, is lidl's own as good as people say??

[@dancoulson6579]

Thank you for taking the time to make this. I work in Lidl in Dorchester, and I was thinking of trying our flour. Now I know to save my money and stick to Green Dragon. I did some chicken balls today, with chow mein, and some of the S&S sauce thickened up. Me and dad loved it. I cook basically every night now. I know one thing's for sure - When you release another book, I'll be one of your first customers!

[@ChinChooReviews]

The lidls flour is good, dont get me wrong its just not as good as green dragon :)

[@greg9871]

Three or four months ago we took delivery of 6 bags of Green dragon flour and we have never looked back! It’s superb! Thx guys!

[@ChinChooReviews]

😊😊😊😊

[@Ghotiman2]

In Canada they use Brodie XXX self rising flour to make Sweet and Sour Chicken balls. I haven't found an equivalent to Green Dragon / Brodie XXX in the US

[@ChinChooReviews]

Did not know that :)

[@kevincarr3263]

I tried a different flour as I couldn’t get green dragon here in poland what a disaster, eventually got a friend to send me some over along with other things from your web store . What a difference my wife even said they were fantastic as she is not a great chinese food lover a real complement Keep up the great videos P.s. cooking satay chicken skewers tonight

[@greggall205]

Good evaluation there. I still have to shoot my comparison video. I will use exactly the same amounts of flour and water. I'll also cook a ball from each batch together in the mini fryer for the same time. I'll be interested to see if it turns out the same as yours. I'm guessing it will.

[@ChinChooReviews]

Our method is in the description if that helps

[@archezbecray]

Great to see uploads here again ♥️

[@ChinChooReviews]

Summer season is now over so we have time to make them again :)

[@phordy]

Feeling pretty gutteed that can't find Green Dragon or similar here in Melbourne. We live in a large Asian community and have so many Asian groceries, but still can't find the stuff.

[@ChinChooReviews]

It's because it's a British made brand, strange I know

[@phordy]

@@ChinChooReviews 😭. There has to be an Australian equivalent. Must try harder to find one.

[@chezzie9646]

Nice to see Doug on here for a visit..... your face when he said the first one was greasier 😂. You wear your heart on your sleeve🤩

[@ChinChooReviews]

Haha yes I do :)

[@wolfman011000]

One of our local chinese take aways uses lidls flour ihave seen the owner instore multiple times buying half a trolley's worth of it, not sure about the other take away. Had chicken balls from both and they seem the same from memory, i'll have to pay etter attention next time i get it. Thanks for the video it was interesting take care.

[@ChinChooReviews]

Loads of places use cheap flour :) but thats who me and mum can tell if there chefs, or people that bought a takeaway because there face fits

[@user-ps5sp6zo3l]

Hey where can I buy gd flour as I couldn’t find it on your site?

[@michaelosullivan4989]

Your mam really loves her music as a DJ for over 30 years she I bet she was really fun on a night out X

[@silverarrow2558]

Ok im sold ... your other dishes are amazing so ill trust your knowledge.

[@ChinChooReviews]

😊😊😊😊 thank you

[@snowflakemelter1172]

I've cracked take away style chow mein now thanks to your videos, chucked out all the off the shelf sauces and just dark soy, msg and 50 / 50 veg and sesame oil. 👍👍👍

[@markflanking6621]

Chin quick question I made your chicken balls to the T same flour everything but they weren’t as puffy and big as yours meaning the outa layer even though the chicken breast was the same size? Would this mean the batter was to watery?

[@ChinChooReviews]

Could be, but there is also a technique as we explain in the video, it takes months to perfect

[@MM-hh9oj]

Hi Where xan i buy the green dragon flour and that sweet and sour sauce?

[@MM-hh9oj]

Can**

[@ChinChooReviews]

As we say in the video on our webstore www.chinanchoo.com/shop or most chinese supermarkets will have it

[@MM-hh9oj]

@@ChinChooReviews thanks. Love your videos. Your mum is the best

[@djn1856]

Just got my delivery today. Trying your chicken chow mein and prawn toast tonight. Got the green dragon as well so will try the chicken balls next week

[@ChinChooReviews]

Let us know how you get on :)

[@shakarrla9509]

Please can you review different types of egg noodles, just tried Tesco’s fresh egg noodles and thought they were so much better than dried versions from the supermarkets

[@ChinChooReviews]

Yes!

[@sneakybuns]

hey i was wondering if you are able to ship to canada yet? :)

[@ChinChooReviews]

No sorry many of the Uk services we trust at good rates are shipping out, we could send Royal Mail but for 5kgs you’re looking at over £120

[@michaelosullivan4989]

I made chicken balls last night and I could not find green Dragon flour so use normal store self razing and the turns out full of oil and not smoothe and looked like the darker one ,the did not expand either. So you guys where 100% spot on with right flour I can't buy it in Australia ,,🥺 Im stuck with the oily crap lol

[@emmatonge2436]

👍 Fantastic, jumping on the web store now and getting myself some Green Dragon Flour and some sauce!!! 🤤🤤

[@misssocrates3442]

Green dragon is amazing 😍😍😍

[@ChinChooReviews]

😊😊😊😊

[@TonysComfortKitchen]

Great video guys. Firstly, Chin as I may have already said, I'm not a great lover of sweet and sour sauce. It's too sickly sweet for me. However, the bottles of Lee Kum Kee sweet and sour sauce are actually similar to something you'd get from a takeaway IMHO! With regards to the flour, I'd love to know why the Lidl flour held more oil. Just less fine?

[@ChinChooReviews]

Yeah its good but to me it has a werid taste, makes it seem close to takeaway but misses the mark

[@TonysComfortKitchen]

@@ChinChooReviews I guess any sauce in a bottle misses the mark compared to a freshly made sauce. I tried another brand once that missed the mark by a country mile!! Tasted like ginger snap sauce haha

[@Grumpy-Steve]

I cannot see the Green Dragon flour on your shop website, are you out of stock?

[@ChinChooReviews]

Its restocked now, we had sold out 1 week ago and have been waiting for delivery

[@Grumpy-Steve]

@@ChinChooReviews Fantastic.. order incoming :)

[@suebell4624]

Great video just proves the right product really does make a difference look forward to more comparisons 👍

[@ChinChooReviews]

Yes it does!

[@greg9871]

Wha hooooo excellent video guys! 🤩🤩🤩 great advice.

[@ChinChooReviews]

😊😊😊 thanks :)

[@misssocrates3442]

I love your mom so much 😻😻❤️

[@ChinChooReviews]

She is amazing right :)

[@damonpowrie2392]

what level do you put your induction hob on to fry them because i recently swapped from gas and i’m finding it hard to get the golden colour and chicken cooked ?

[@ChinChooReviews]

Hot the to 7

[@damonpowrie2392]

thanks ive just cooked them perfect taste and colour :) saves me £4-£5 every time i cook

[@Sooz3112]

Good to know...thanks. i'm not great with greasy fried foods so the Green Dragon would be the one I opted for too x

[@ChinChooReviews]

Yeah same here :)

[@philosgood2402]

more videos with dad please, great show!

[@ChinChooReviews]

Dad hates being on camera lol

[@chrissy212e]

So funny the sweet and sour prawns balls I bought yesterday were greasy like in your video I wonder what flour they used very awful to eat and they were not cheap.

[@cameron-white]

Awesome review, quality over quantity (in terms of more for less £) always prevails. Always spend that little bit more for the better product. Would love to see more reviews!

[@ChinChooReviews]

Thanks and yes, everytime

[@colinmitchell9212]

Hay, don't laugh at the humble pork pie, nought wrong with Our English classic.

[@ChinChooReviews]

I didnt say there was, i was saying that his palette isnt used to this, food...

[@RevuitNet]

What oil do you free with.... bought a huge vegetable oil and it’s making our chicken balls taste just of oil!

[@ChinChooReviews]

We use vegetable oil, every takeaway uses veg oil, if your using green dragon, it sounds like your oil isnt hot enough when they 1st go in, if your not, use green dragon it makes all the difference

[@RevuitNet]

@@ChinChooReviews I usually put them in around 180c is that not hot enough? Also does it matter the type of veg oil... like quality wise?

[@RevuitNet]

@@ChinChooReviews tried shallow frying chicken goujons in the veg oil also and it just tasted tasted of cheap oil and couldn’t taste anything else!

[@chelsea_girl]

Great video. The Green Dragon ones looked better. Great to see a lot more more of Choo now that she has more time, and then Doug as the surprise guest was an extra special treat 👍

[@ChinChooReviews]

Yeah it’s great to get some videos done :) and dad hates being on camera haha

[@pjcee58]

I made scones with GD flour they were amazingly light. The flour is very fine, like 00 flour.

[@ChinChooReviews]

They sound amazing

[@tinblo2621]

Don’t suppose you did a Cantonese version of this video for my mum to watch ? :)

[@WorldExplorersAS]

Great video, can you please tell us how to make a Honey chilli sauce please, you have changed my world, I have cooked loads of your recipes for my family and they have loved them all, but honey chilli sauce is my favourite that I would love to be able to do. Thanks for your great work I check every day to see if there's a new post from you, happy days and best wishes. PS. OMG, I would love to see you guys on the TV programme Goggle Box.

[@ChinChooReviews]

Thanks again replied this before on my other channel

[@luks7305]

Had the green dragon stuff in my local shop when there was a flour shortage

[@ChinChooReviews]

These is now too, we can only order a certian amount from the factory that makes them

[@eogon-yt]

Green Dragon is the flour for chicken balls,during the lock down the chicken balls went to crap down my way.soggy doughy and soaked with oil,

[@meilit1989]

Remember the time dad tried to cook rice because we where sick of chips and burnt it like 3 times! While mum was in Brunei SMH

[@ChinChooReviews]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yes, we also had about 1000 microwaved roated dinner trays

[@meilit1989]

@@ChinChooReviews haha and we called mum crying says we didn’t want to eat chips anymore and asked her to come home to cook some Chinese food 😂😂😂

[@MrLGDUK]

Excellent review! Just goes to show, it's really worth buying the superior product 😁

[@ChinChooReviews]

Yeah it does

[@CORFrags]

I completely agree with what you said however I feel like the Lidl flour is very unreliable sometimes it can be just like the green dragon but other times like shown in this video it can be super greasy. Im not to sure why this happens with the Lidl flour but if your cooking at home for yourselvs I would definitely go for the green dragon as you get better results with it.

[@ChinChooReviews]

The lidls flour was much better than I thought it was going to be

[@CORFrags]

@@ChinChooReviews ever since covid there where was a lack of it going around for months and I feel like as stated in the above comments they started outsourcing the product and thus the quality has gone down immensely. Recently I would say that Lidl flour has been a very low standard compared to usual. Hopefully the quality goes back up to what it was, theres a reason so many Chinese takeaways use it

[@flytrapjohn]

Thank you. This would explain the inconsistency at my local take away. Stodgy grease sponges some days.

[@ChinChooReviews]

That or there not chefs :)

[@flytrapjohn]

@@ChinChooReviews Oh, I hadn't thought of that. I'm so naive sometimes. 🤣

[@kshaharudin]

For us mere mortals unable to get Green Dragon flours we've other legit options. In a pinch, cheap general purpose self raising flours can be enriched with potato/corn starch for more crispiness and additional baking powder and a small small amount of baking soda will add more lightness to your battered balls. However, if you're aiming to get even closer to Green Dragon Self Raising flour use '00' flour which is a way finer grain of flour and for every 100g of '00' flour combine it with 1 level tsp of baking powder to make your own self raising flour blend. Your only issue here is that your self raising flour now costs over twice the price of Green Dragon Self Raising flour but if you can't get Green Dragon, or really dont want to pay international shipping, what you gonna do eh? Furthermore, many takeaways and restaurants season their batter with a little salt, MSG and white pepper. Unlike the UK, US self raising flours contain salt in their blend so that means reducing the salt content of your batter or completely eliminating it altogether. Hope this helps someone. Thanks for videos Chin & Choo.

[@ChinChooReviews]

If you're in a pinch use lidls flour

[@lizziewhizz2307]

Hi to you both, there is no comparison, Green Dragon is far superior than the Lidls flour. Since buying the Green Dragon Flour from your shop, I will not use any other flour. Thank you! :-)

[@ChinChooReviews]

Yeah it is :)

[@Bushy-73]

Question: Green dragon Plain and SR flour, can these flours be used in normal cooking situations like cakes and such?

[@Spudarmy]

Definitely, I use it all the time for baking and its brilliant :)

[@rsa420]

"I love the sauce" and leaves a clear plate winner your mum is awesome . When I make my noodles 00 is way better

[@rsa420]

Doug is awesome too

[@ChinChooReviews]

Haha dad is a legend

[@michaeldalgarno3621]

For the sake of a quid you may as well listen to the chicken ball Gods and buy what they say 😂

[@ChinChooReviews]

Hahah you would not believe how cheap some people are

[@samgarrod4781]

Considering the work that goes into them, what's the point in skimping on ingredients 👍

[@daze1945]

Just to clarify "OUR" left is Green Dragon but we all know what you mean because we all love you! 😂

[@ChinChooReviews]

🤣🤣🤣 didnt even think about that

[@eogon-yt]

Best chicken balls are made with green dragon flour any other brand and they taste like they have been fried In lard..

[@ChinChooReviews]

Yes!! Couldnt put it better myself

[@Barbarainnc1]

Wish we had Green Dragon Self Rising Flour in the States. So sad. :(

[@ChinChooReviews]

Wish it was cheaper for me to ship

[@Dust76tr]

@@ChinChooReviews Yeah, UK postage sucks when shipping internationally. Sucks when stuff is coming in from outside too

[@technicstim]

can you do one where you use gluten-free flour maybe mate please?

[@ChinChooReviews]

A review?

[@technicstim]

@@ChinChooReviews maybe

[@raydanschofield3542]

soon m y c hinese will have mock c hicken and ill be able to try these and sap chicken, keep up c hin, im going to try making with quorn one day

[@ChinChooReviews]

We sell mock chicken on the webstore :)

[@cidtheratboy]

...whats wrong with you bro? Do you need some protein in you diet? 🤣😂🤣

[@Robert-mt9jw]

Smarter than the average bear!

[@ChinChooReviews]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TrevorRoper.]

TU^42 Green dragon is best ;-) Trevor

[@ChinChooReviews]

😊😊😊

[@DeejayMorley]

Green dragon for the win 👏

[@ChinChooReviews]

😊😊😊😊

[@duncanmit5307]

💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 ....when I heard about this I. Try it with aldi not lidl.....I was surprised ......💜💜💜💜💜💜💜....maybe give aldi a go.....💜💜💜💜

[@ChinChooReviews]

Ive use aldis and it worse than this

[@duncanmit5307]

💜💜💜💜 green dragon all the way💜💜💜💜💜

[@firehandszarb]

lidl self raising flour makes excellent pancakes

[@wilburtron]

Well that's settled then.

[@ChinChooReviews]

😊😊😊

[@jammyjohnny9819]

Green Dragon all the way, I have tried others and they just hold the grease like Chin says.

[@ChinChooReviews]

Yeah its becasue there not fine

[@ryanrobinson9625]

Can't search for items on your website. Can you add this? I'm not going to sit here all day looking for something.

[@ChinChooReviews]

We have only have 80 items lol, and no, wix won’t let the search bar function work in their online shop plug, it’s out of my hands until the new site is built

[@IsabellsNannyRuby]

Think my Chinese takeaway uses Aldi flour 😲

[@ChinChooReviews]

Many "cheap" places will, if yiu read in the description, I say this isnt to tell you some places will use cheap products, because they do, but the good place will use green dragon because its noticeable better

[@mixerD1-]

Wahey...😁😁😁

[@ChinChooReviews]

😊😊😊😊

[@itzcolm8737]

Does it contain msg? No? Then don't buy

[@ChinChooReviews]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jamiewatson9259]

🎃

[@ChinChooReviews]

👍👍👍

[@OrganisedPauper]

I've never heard of Green Dragon self raising flour before.

[@ChinChooReviews]

It’s because before we told people about it, it was only available wholesale

[@OrganisedPauper]

@@ChinChooReviews Oh I see. Thanks for the background info. 🙂