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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 28, 2018 16:27:47 GMT -5
We’re all familiar with pizza for picky kids and the mediocre sushi that can’t say anything good about how considerate white Americans are of Asian heritage. But what are the real headscratchers?
Today I saw clam chowder.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 18:36:49 GMT -5
Most of the Chinese restaurants I've been to also served burgers, which really begs the question of who goes to a Chinese restaurant to order a hamburger
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 28, 2018 18:49:39 GMT -5
You have to break your fortune cookie apart if you don't want to accidentally ingest one of those little slips of paper that they always seem to stick inside of those things. Obviously they're not going to kill you, but there's also no nutritional value to those little slips of paper. And if you've never broken a fortune cookie apart before, they're kind of brittle and prone to snapping apart into many tiny pieces. So I'd definitely call that questionable food design, yeah.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jan 28, 2018 18:49:53 GMT -5
Most of the Chinese restaurants I've been to also served burgers, which really begs the question of who goes to a Chinese restaurant to order a hamburger My father in law orders hamburgers at Mexican restaurants. Americans are weird.
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Post by Pastafarian on Jan 28, 2018 19:09:46 GMT -5
Most of the Chinese restaurants I've been to also served burgers, which really begs the question of who goes to a Chinese restaurant to order a hamburger While I agree with your premise, I'd like to point out that idiom isn't often used to mean what it actually means. But like "hoi polloi" or "nonplussed" it has become one of those things that is so commonly misused that it has almost evolved to mean something else. Apologies for the pedantism. Anyway, The More You Know... afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/begging-the-question-again/
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Post by Pastafarian on Jan 28, 2018 19:13:26 GMT -5
I used to drive by a place that was a chinese food / donut shop. That always struck me as an odd combo.
"One General Tso's chicken and a half dozen crullers coming up!"
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 28, 2018 20:37:43 GMT -5
Most of the Chinese restaurants I've been to also served burgers, which really begs the question of who goes to a Chinese restaurant to order a hamburger Are you talking about actually looking at a menu and ordering a cheeseburger? That is wild. I've seen it on buffets before, but it falls into the same category as the pizza: clearly just there to appease picky eaters.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 28, 2018 20:38:54 GMT -5
I used to drive by a place that was a chinese food / donut shop. That always struck me as an odd combo. "One General Tso's chicken and a half dozen crullers coming up!" You joke, but for decades my late grandpa would go to any Chinese restaurant and order 1 egg roll, egg drop soup, and one of those little fried sugar donuts. He would have been ALL OVER that place.
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Post by Jimmy James on Jan 28, 2018 21:25:30 GMT -5
This is my first thought for the type of people who go to Chinese restaurants and order burgers- one would think with his overall appetite, Homer wouldn't be so picky. Nuevo Laredo, my choice Mexican restaurant back in Atlanta, did list a hamburger way down in the bottom corner of the menu, with the caption "Para los gringos"
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jan 28, 2018 21:45:57 GMT -5
You have to break your fortune cookie apart if you don't want to accidentally ingest one of those little slips of paper that they always seem to stick inside of those things. Obviously they're not going to kill you, but there's also no nutritional value to those little slips of paper. And if you've never broken a fortune cookie apart before, they're kind of brittle and prone to snapping apart into many tiny pieces. So I'd definitely call that questionable food design, yeah. I've seen several Chinese buffets serving ice cream for dessert. Fortune cookies go really well with chocolate ice cream. Most questionable menu item? Offhand, I'd say pigs-in-a-blanket.
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Jan 29, 2018 1:03:48 GMT -5
Chicken fingers. Come on, just eat the goddamn wings, dude.
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Post by Il sole sotto la terra on Jan 29, 2018 8:24:57 GMT -5
Something that could be best described as moo goo hotdog pan: stir fried vegetables with sliced hot dogs. Who's that gonna appeal to?
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Post by LazBro on Jan 29, 2018 8:30:12 GMT -5
Maybe a Texas thing, but I've been to more than one Chinese buffet in the area that had tacos, and one that had "house special empanadas" on the line. I, uh, never get them. I also see mac-and-cheese, french fries and potato wedges with some regularity.
The biggest headscratcher for me doesn't even have a name. There's one buffet around here that does a hot seafood "salad" which (as best I can tell) is squid, krab and tiny bay scallops all sloshed with mayonnaise, blanketed in cheddar cheese, and baked. Why is it a headscratcher? Because I find it shamefully delicious.
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Post by LazBro on Jan 29, 2018 8:31:36 GMT -5
Something that could be best described as moo goo hotdog pan: stir fried vegetables with sliced hot dogs. Who's that gonna appeal to? I heard that hot dogs were a common pizza topping, and a more widely used protein in general, in Mexico. My Spanish teacher back in 8th grade told me. I've taken it for truth but have never actually tried to confirm this information.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 8:38:34 GMT -5
Ice Cream, not the soft serve, but the ice cream in buckets you have to scoop out. Many a kid has probably stuck their hand all up in that, it is like the chocolate fountain at american buffets.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Jan 29, 2018 11:51:24 GMT -5
Most of the Chinese restaurants I've been to also served burgers, which really begs the question of who goes to a Chinese restaurant to order a hamburger My father in law orders hamburgers at Mexican restaurants. Americans are weird. It’s kind of the opposite here (and a bit of a corollary to LazBro’s observation) that a lot of the good hole-in-the-wall-ish burger places in Southern California also have surprisingly good Mexican food, for obvious reasons.
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Jan 29, 2018 12:35:09 GMT -5
the only thing that comes to mind for this question is that time I went to a buffet place, got a donut and it was filled with chicken gravy
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 29, 2018 12:44:58 GMT -5
the only thing that comes to mind for this question is that time I went to a buffet place, got a donut and it was filled with chicken gravy I'm really not sure what to do with the thought that I kind of want one of those now.
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Jan 29, 2018 16:00:15 GMT -5
Maybe a Texas thing, but I've been to more than one Chinese buffet in the area that had tacos, and one that had "house special empanadas" on the line. I, uh, never get them. I also see mac-and-cheese, french fries and potato wedges with some regularity. The biggest headscratcher for me doesn't even have a name. There's one buffet around here that does a hot seafood "salad" which (as best I can tell) is squid, krab and tiny bay scallops all sloshed with mayonnaise, blanketed in cheddar cheese, and baked. Why is it a headscratcher? Because I find it shamefully delicious. Do you have a Chinese buffet round these here parts? My inner child misses them and there are so many it's hard to know where to go.
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Post by ganews on Jan 30, 2018 13:07:24 GMT -5
Something that could be best described as moo goo hotdog pan: stir fried vegetables with sliced hot dogs. Who's that gonna appeal to? Hmmm. A standard kiddie food in Japan is sliced hot dogs cut into crab and octopus shapes, then sauteed with sugar and soy sauce essentially. Good for making your bento box cute. So maybe if it was something like that? Except if it was, I think you would know.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 30, 2018 20:26:33 GMT -5
Something that could be best described as moo goo hotdog pan: stir fried vegetables with sliced hot dogs. Who's that gonna appeal to? Hmmm. A standard kiddie food in Japan is sliced hot dogs cut into crab and octopus shapes, then sauteed with sugar and soy sauce essentially. Good for making your bento box cute. So maybe if it was something like that? Except if it was, I think you would know. I automatically think of this:
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Post by Il sole sotto la terra on Jan 30, 2018 21:16:20 GMT -5
Something that could be best described as moo goo hotdog pan: stir fried vegetables with sliced hot dogs. Who's that gonna appeal to? Hmmm. A standard kiddie food in Japan is sliced hot dogs cut into crab and octopus shapes, then sauteed with sugar and soy sauce essentially. Good for making your bento box cute. So maybe if it was something like that? Except if it was, I think you would know. Oh, no. This wasn't something cute. It was so bizarre that even the waiters were giving it side-eye.
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Post by LazBro on Jan 31, 2018 9:32:56 GMT -5
Maybe a Texas thing, but I've been to more than one Chinese buffet in the area that had tacos, and one that had "house special empanadas" on the line. I, uh, never get them. I also see mac-and-cheese, french fries and potato wedges with some regularity. The biggest headscratcher for me doesn't even have a name. There's one buffet around here that does a hot seafood "salad" which (as best I can tell) is squid, krab and tiny bay scallops all sloshed with mayonnaise, blanketed in cheddar cheese, and baked. Why is it a headscratcher? Because I find it shamefully delicious. Do you have a Chinese buffet round these here parts? My inner child misses them and there are so many it's hard to know where to go. Not one that stands above the rest. The one I went to in Frisco, called Grand Wall I think, was pretty good. Weirdly addictive wonton soup, and they had "special chorizo fried rice" on the line all the time, and that was good. But it's still a Chinese buffet and most their food was par. And there's one at 75 and Parker, down the way from the Burlington Coat Factory. Not sure the name, but that's the one that has the cheesy seafood bake that I so adore. They also have fried calamari on the line. By no means the world's best, but my love of fried calamari is such that I can handle a pretty low standard. But in terms of, "here's a Chinese buffet that's actually legit that I would heartily recommend to any friend and/or restaurant critic!" Uh, no.
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Jan 31, 2018 10:27:56 GMT -5
But in terms of, "here's a Chinese buffet that's actually legit that I would heartily recommend to any friend and/or restaurant critic!" Uh, no. Ok, cool, thanks! (And...one downside of this job is having to convince everyone I still love trashy garbage food.)
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Post by haysoos on Feb 1, 2018 13:40:17 GMT -5
A friend of mine went to a food-fair Chinese buffet place in the mall, one of those "pick 2 items plus noodles or rice" places.
Anyhow, the fried shrimp she got turned out to be not shelled before it was battered and fried. Rather a bit more crunchy than most people like.
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Post by Pastafarian on Feb 2, 2018 18:15:21 GMT -5
A friend of mine went to a food-fair Chinese buffet place in the mall, one of those "pick 2 items plus noodles or rice" places. Anyhow, the fried shrimp she got turned out to be not shelled before it was battered and fried. Rather a bit more crunchy than most people like. I went to a Thai place where they served a shrimp dish with fried prawn shells on the side. They were delicious and I often wish I could order a basket of them with a beer, but closer to home.
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Post by sarapen on Feb 27, 2018 21:03:52 GMT -5
Something that could be best described as moo goo hotdog pan: stir fried vegetables with sliced hot dogs. Who's that gonna appeal to? One dish beloved of Chinese bachelors consists of stir fried vegetables with Spam cubes, so I assume this is merely a variant. I've cooked something similar myself. However, this is the kind of shit you make at home and never, ever, charge money for since it's so obviously low rent.
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