What is the best side dish served with sweet & sour chicken?

I was married to an Asian for 15 years so ate and cooked a lot of Asian food. Sweet and Sour Chicken is an Americanized dish. When you serve a sweet Asian dish you need to balance it out. Asians eat more vegetable side dishes than additional meat entrees, plain rice,noodles and tea. If you want something alcoholic most Asians prefer beer.

spicy dish: spicy pickles—pickled radish, pickled sea weed, pickled cucumbers, pickled cabbage (pak choy/bok choy/Chinese mustard), pickled ginger

salty dish: yard long beans or pak choy in soy sauce /sesame oil, eggplants stir fry

musty: black fungus, shitake mushrooms or similar reconstituted dried mushroom

bitter dish: stuffed bitter melon

soup: watercress with tofu

fruit: melons, citrus ,lychee nuts

You can always add spring rolls or dim sum but they take a little more work to do.

I’ll give you some good websites.

http://www.ivu.org/recipes/chinese/

http://www.recipe.com/recipes/china/vegetables/

http://www.recipezaar.com/

http://www.asiancook.co.uk/ChineseCategory.html

IM apoligizing for these usual side dishes that people usually use, but to balance out the sweetness of the glaze, a simple basmanie rice would be good, but put some chicken stalk in while steaming for additional flavor, another side dish would be a simple vegtable stirfry, no meat

I would do a side of steamed cauli and spoon some of the sauce over the top, and mix some bright green steamed peas into the rice, just before serving.

My aunt always does this types of things.

Last time she made a gathering it was Asian themed.

She made sweet & sour chicken with the following (therefore your answer):

chow mein and egg rolls

40 people = small gathering, wow!

Chinese egg rolls or Philipino lumpia

Chow mein (my favorite!)

Chinese chicken salad (from somewhere good, since there are plenty of questionable recipes from some restaurants). Costco has a ready-made "kit", just add the iceberg lettuce, which is not too bad but not great.

Zucchini is commonly looked at as a veg, and in layman's parlance, of course, this is far more useful; however, by rigid definition, the zucchini is a fruit, being the swollen ovary of the zucchini flower.

I only get sweet and sour when I get chinese food.... so white rice and broccili is what I'd say :)

oh and that yummy orange sauce too of course!

Curry Puffs.

Spring rolls.

Dim sum.

That's all i can think of sorry.

Hope i helped :)

White rice.

cashew rice

edamame beans

sizzling eggplant ( very very good)

black bean buns

bitter greens in egg soup

stir fried mung beans and mushrooms with cashews.