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Identify this Chinese dish! (vanity)
Posted on 06/22/2012 9:08:52 PM PDT by Feline_AIDS
Tonight I went to a Chinese place and ordered "chicken chow mein" with fried rice. Why they serve rice with a noodle dish I have no idea. This is curious point # 1.
When I got home with it, it was... well, not what I thought it would be. I thought chow mein was a noodle dish.
It was essentially cabbage, lettuce, celery, a few carrots, and sprouts with pieces of chicken in it. All of it was swimming in a clear sauce. Served in a soup container. Curious point # 2.
Now, this is not a health-inspector's dream type of place. It's family owned, been there for years, there's no matriarch sleeping on a cot in the back, the American-born children take the orders and are polite. The place is spotless. I think I got someone else's order. Then again, they served this (whatever) with the fried rice I specified, so I'm not sure.
Please tell me. What did I eat?
(Possibly unrelated detail--they had this picture signed on their wall with the sign "CUSTOMER OF THE YEAR.")
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: chinesefood; michelleobama; takeout
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To: Viking2002
Also: The one dollar freezer meals of spaghetti and meatballs are surprisingly good.
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posted on
06/22/2012 10:10:44 PM PDT
by
Winstons Julia
(Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
To: Feline_AIDS
Typicall Lo Mein is soft noodles, Chow Mein is fried noodles, Chop Suey and Sub Gum are with rice and not noodles.
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posted on
06/22/2012 10:14:15 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
To: Feline_AIDS
It’s chicken chow mein. The noodles are dry and in a separate packet. Pour them into the chicken mixture. Some soy sauce helps zip it up a bit too. It’s a pretty Americanized dish, but what you had sounds like it was as authentic as chicken chow mein gets.
To: Feline_AIDS
Names differ depending on where you are, but where I’m from (NY), the thinner rice noodles are called mei fun. Then you have lo mein, then there are the really fat noodles, which are called chow fun.
Chow mein has fried dry noodles. The ones you’ll get at the restaurant are usually quite different from the ones you’ll get at the supermarket, but one can obtain chow mein noodles (and canned chow mein) at pretty much any supermarket.
To: I see my hands
No lie!
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posted on
06/22/2012 10:22:39 PM PDT
by
I see my hands
(It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
To: Viking2002
(My doctor's gonna murder me..........) Whether you like it or not, you are prophetic.
46
posted on
06/22/2012 10:36:02 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(About that Coup d'état we had in 08, anyone worried yet?)
To: Feline_AIDS
It could be...
Pu Chi
Bow Wow Gai Pan
Tastes just like chicken wing
Chow down
Lin tin tin
Leg of mutt ton
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posted on
06/22/2012 10:41:08 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1249 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
To: Viking2002
nothing wrong with SPAM in my opinion
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posted on
06/22/2012 10:53:10 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Feline_AIDS
To: Winstons Julia; itsahoot
Both y'all are trying to tuck me in under a dirt blanket before I'm ready, ain't ya?
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
To: Winstons Julia
I can just imagine what the picture looks like. lol
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posted on
06/22/2012 10:59:40 PM PDT
by
jcsjcm
(This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
To: Feline_AIDS
To: GeronL
Bacon Spam is great fried. Turkey Spam isn't half bad, either. For a sammich, I prefer Treet, though. Or one of those gelatin-entombed DAK hams in a can. Mmmmm, my sodium count spikes just thinking about it.
(My doctor's gonna murder me......)
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
To: Viking2002
I didn’t like TREET much unless it was fried
sadly (heh) I do like Vienna Weinies, potted meat but especially Deviled Ham. lol.
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posted on
06/22/2012 11:06:39 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: GeronL
Ha. A Vienna sausage sammich was my 5 AM snack this morning - I was out of tuna and Hot Pockets. And the Underwood deviled meats are a weakness of mine, especially the chicken and roast beef. As a kid, my wife actually used to eat potted meat and grape jelly sammiches. I kid you not. It's actually Southern thing. Along with peanut butter and mayo. *BLECH*
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
To: shibumi; Salamander
That was the wurst pun I’ve ever heard.
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posted on
06/22/2012 11:28:55 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Viking2002
My mom made something called 5 can casserole.
Can of (dry) Chow Mein noodles.
Big can of Cream of mushroom soup
Can of evaporated milk
Can of cream of celery soup.
Big can of tuna...
Of course... in the 70’s the can sizes were different...so the recipe doesn’t work anymore and you have to jimmy it yourself.
I’m totally going to the store tomorrow for ingredients and making this.
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posted on
06/23/2012 12:10:29 AM PDT
by
Winstons Julia
(Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
To: Viking2002
My mom made something called 5 can casserole.
Can of (dry) Chow Mein noodles.
Big can of Cream of mushroom soup
Can of evaporated milk
Can of cream of celery soup.
Big can of tuna...
Of course... in the 70’s the can sizes were different...so the recipe doesn’t work anymore and you have to jimmy it yourself.
I’m totally going to the store tomorrow for ingredients and making this.
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posted on
06/23/2012 12:12:18 AM PDT
by
Winstons Julia
(Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
To: Kickass Conservative
What on earth are you talking about?
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posted on
06/23/2012 12:46:40 AM PDT
by
jobim
(.)
To: I see my hands
Oh, you rotten blighter! That really was a picture of food.
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posted on
06/23/2012 1:03:10 AM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
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