You buy food from the frozen aisle. How poor are you?
General Tso's Chicken... Any Good???
- Thread starter Little Red Wagon Repairman
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It has nothing to do with being poor. The pic in first post is what is in freezer aisle.
How assuming, condescending are you with your flyer miles?
How assuming, condescending are you with your flyer miles?
Poor? Have you ever priced anything in the frozen isle? Its hella expensive. Go price a family size Stoffers Lasagne and get back with me. Last time I looked they were like $15. It would be cheaper to make it from scratch. But with the expensive price your paying for the convenience factor. Heat and serve food is by no means poor folk food, not by a long shot.
Not to mention the PF Chang and other Chinese foods in frozen aisle. Those are always expensive which is why I mentioned the on sale or 2 for 5. I can only imagine how much frozen food would cost in Dino's neck of the woods in California.
But Chopper can obviously afford to fly to China for authentic fresh Chinese food. But what he can't buy? Group of friends leaving the bar to go to the frozen food aisle to pick up pizza rolls, frozen burritos and chicken wings to eat when get back home and play some video games and/or watch movies.
Sounds like he has a 13 inch checkbook. :dunno:
Pfft. He was at a Chinese buffet with fancy plates :1orglaugh
I guarantee the dude has never left England, is a shut in and never has kissed a girl.
FreeOnes_Adam
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Rey C.
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Do native Chinese lose the ability to cook "proper" Chinese food once they leave China?
Assuming the necessary ingredients are available, where the food is cooked is a LOT less important than who is cooking it.
freeones_regina
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They do 'alter' their food to cater to the people of the countries/places they ended up at so whatever is on the menu is Americanized or in my case dutchyfied (is that a word?).
Whatever they serve in general Chinese restaurants in the US as well as over here is totally different than when you go to China and there is even for example a huge difference of what you find on the menu between the US and the Netherlands. We don't even have this General Tso Chicken on our menu's or orange chicken. Maybe if you go to places that have like a China Town area, you will find food that comes close to what you can find in China.
Well dog is on the menu in China, so I guess you’d have to go there for that proper variety of Chinese cuisine. I love dogs so I try not to think about that.
Rey C.
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When speaking about a restaurant, I think you're right. Yeah, I think that's probably true of all ethnic restaurants - you're eating "commercial" food. I was talking more along the lines of a Chinese person who prepares a home cooked meal. A friend of mine's wife is Chinese. I have no way to compare, but I assumed that when she cooked native Chinese dishes, it was "proper" Chinese food. That's the only reason I took issue with what he said. Well, that... and I just felt like being argumentative.
freeones_regina
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When speaking about a restaurant, I think you're right. Yeah, I think that's probably true of all ethnic restaurants - you're eating "commercial" food. I was talking more along the lines of a Chinese person who prepares a home cooked meal. A friend of mine's wife is Chinese. I have no way to compare, but I assumed that when she cooked native Chinese dishes, it was "proper" Chinese food. That's the only reason I took issue with what he said. Well, that... and I just felt like being argumentative.
Well, if you are talking about home cooked food then I agree with you
Who is this General TSo by the way, why is a chicken meal named after him?
John_8581
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Next, he'll be saying that the only proper way is to eat it with chopsticks! :rofl2:
You need the whole red chili peppers most definitely. Otherwise you have sesame chicken. Best place to eat the dish was at Teresa's Restaurant, in midtown Manhattan in the mid 1980s. They served it with broccoli only. I googled it, the restaurant seems to be gone now.
I had a friend who would ask days beforehand, for example on Thursday, to have the chicken marinated in the hot yellow mustard. He'd pick it up on Sunday. Wow, it was really, really hot. :flame: :flame: F:flame:
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