Nothing wrong with them cause thats all i eat mostly but, i notice Mexicans are cooking it now!!!!! Anyone else noticed. And its good!!!!!

ooops spoke to soon, i just found glass and hair in my food, taking it back right now!!!!!1

saintsation said:

I just learned how to make egg-drop soup recently, not that it's hard or anything, but that stuff is soo good.

I wanna make some fried wontons

General Cho chicken

I like buffet's coz they are "all you can eat". At least you get your money's worth.

General Tso's Chicken rocks!!!!

moo shu chicken and crab rangoon! yuuuummmmmyyy!

i'm getting hungry, i should probably get something to eat before my keyboard fries from the drool.

I once went to a genuine Dim Sum restaurant in Vancouver which was run by "real" Chinese people (lived most of their lives in China) and it was fantastic! I was the only white guy there and the only reason I'd heard about the place was because some Chinese friends of mine had let me in on the "secret". I can tell you, that food was cooked with great care...far superior to that of the run-of-the-mill, so-called Chinese restaurants you find on every other street corner in most major cities.

retina said:

I went to several "chinese" buffet/all you can eat for 10 pesos restaurants in Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata. Chinese in the loosest term of the word. SO funny, it was mainly asado! they did have some odd dishes there, like chicken and pineapple, and some nori rolls with HAM in them!

charlottegelin said:

I'm not surprised. These days the sign "Chinese restaurant" just means they serve some kind of semi-Asian mishmash (beware especially of sterotypical names like Golden Dragon or Bamboo Palace!). I think the Chinese food culture became too popular too fast and every hack on the planet wanted to be in on the moneymaking. It's really too bad. I can see it happening to Japanese food now. It's still usually good, but in a few years the art will have been lost on the international arena.

retina said:

It is just adapted to the local taste. I keep hearing about egg rolls they have in the US, they don't have that here. We have these enormous spring rolls full of god knows what and really sweet brightly coloured dishes - especially in food courts, I bet the chinese wouldn't eat it. I know most australians don't go for the chickens feet.

charlottegelin said:

Of course they have to adapt slightly, otherwise they'd go out of business. I just think it's too bad that they change the whole menu, so that even if you wanted to try the real thing, you just couldn't. Plus the cooking gets sloppy and uninspired after a while. They probably think "well, these people can't appreciate the real cuisine anyway, so why bother?". Plus it's the "quick cash" issue.

retina said:

I reckon the whole menu is invented on foreign shores, there is a vietnamese suburb near us where there are also proper yum cha and thai restaurants with asian supermarkets, we go there to eat and we are usually the only non-asians, and the food is totally different, but fantastic and CHEAPER!

charlottegelin said:

Yeah, that's my experience too. The only problem is finding those places if you're new to the area.

retina said:

true, we have a friend who will only go out with asian girls, so he knows all the good places to eat where he checks out the waitresses.

i love chinese food but what is the deal with chinese food and msg? i'm extra allergic to it so i always have to ask and be extra careful with chinese food. and i love it so! i have a feeling that they don't use msg in china.

charlottegelin said:

Ah, so he's that kind of a guy. A friend of mine in Canada used to attract those types a lot. She got quite frustrated since she could never tell for sure if they were hitting on her because she was generally attractive or just because she looked Asian. Alessandra on the other hand (a Brazilian woman I lived with in Stockholm) got the same thing but never complained. On the contrary she loved the attention and always argued that she now "got guys that wouldn't even have given her a second glance in Brazil".

I can understand both perspectives.

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retina said:

Don't they serve a chicken claw as part of Dim Sum??

Tom said:

I'm not sure, I left it to my Chinese friends to order. I just took care of the eating! And no, there were no claws in the stuff we got at least.
[Edited 12/5/05 17:19pm]

retina said:

He is in Thailand right now trying to get a girlfriend. His problem is the girls want to marry him to come and live in Australia - this keeps happening to him over and over and the language barrier makes it hard for him to explain to them yes he does want to marry and have kids, but after he gets to know them better! Also the ones of temp. visas here trying to get a permanent residency jump him too. So he is also quite suspicious of their motives. His mum just says why don't you find a nice australian girl he is 40 now and still single.

charlottegelin said:

I guess he got what he deserved, in a sense. They're just as shallow in their preferences as he is...

I can sympathize with being 40, single, and not liking it though. Ending up like that is one of my big fears.

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retina said:

when he comes to our house he seems depressed to me, he loves the kids and they love him and I can see that is what he needs. At least he is a guy without a biological clock ticking, he can marry a girl in her 20s and still have a family even with a late start.

charlottegelin said:

True. Guys are lucky that way. I guess for me though, it wouldn't help much since I'm very rarely attracted to younger women anyway. I'll just have to get my ass in gear and find someone before the dreaded four-zero...

retina said:

good luck!

They're excellent we went to the ones that gave ya free Lobster and All you can eat. They have all you can eat Rib places out here. I used to love those places. Now,I only do all you can eat SUSHI. I Don't wanna gain Weight.

My stomach is growling now I will have to go and cook up a storm

There's a restaurant here that started as a chinese restaurant, became a thai place and is now a japanese buffet. They should just put a sign on the building that says 'Somewhere in Asia' and forget it.