Posted on 06/22/2012 9:08:52 PM PDT by Feline_AIDS
You actually put that in your mouth?
From the picture, I can see only one identifiable food item, that being the green pea pod.
You must have been starving!
Anyone who’d make such a pun is lacking in fiber.
Chomp leg foon?
“Remember Chow Mein in the can when you were a kid?”
It is still just as good as you remember it form your childhood. Great stuff.
I am gong to pick some up tonight. My mouth is watering.
when I was a kid I ate a lot of Chow mein out of the can. As you might imagine, it was a bit difficult to find a Chinese restaurant in the wilds (cows across the street) of Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
It is wholly responsible for my continuing love affair with Chinese food. Living in Houston now, we have many, many good chinese restaurants. Yummmm......
Oh man! Did you have to do that to me in the middle of my diet? Wow that makes my mouth water. I haven’t bought shallots in months, maybe years! I used to make stir fry for dates. Not dating now so haven’t made stir fry in a looong time. Now I have to get it done.
You know I wuz sitting here thinking I can stave off my hunger until lunch but, now that you brought up self denial it doesn’t feel so good.
I think I’ll raid the fridge and have a nice juicy piece of leftover, cold, fried chicken.
It’s extra crispy too.
LOL
Our Dog is a Chow-Chow.
Gee, I thought it would get a laugh...
Guess not. #;^(
A lot of explainatory answers here. Those dried fried noodles of my childhood were the Americanized Chow Mein of the time. When our tastes were finally being taught by newer chefs from China, they started using the real noodle in the dish — a wheat based noodle sometimes made with just wheat flour and water and sometimes with egg.
Here is an explanation I give to my classes:
“””””Lo Mein translates as ‘tossed noodles’. Cooked wheat noodles are mixed in with a meat/vegetable mix and heated through.
Chow Mein means ‘fried noodles’. Cooked noodles are stir/fried briefly in hot oil till some of the noodles take on crispy brown edges. They are them combined with a meat/vegetable mix.
Noodle Pancake –Sometimes seen on menus as “Two-side-yellow”. Cooked noodles are placed in a well oiled pan and fried until the bottom is browned, flipped and the other side is browned. They are not stir/fried. The pancake is placed on a plate, and the meat/vegetable mix is spread on top.”””””
As with any dish, whomever is in the kitchen, at the stove, depends on how how they make the dish. One restaurant’s version of any dish can be different from the restaurant down the street. (Your meat loaf and my meat loaf difference) And it could be that the kitchen just botched up for some reason.
Why not go back and order it again and check it out before you leave the store. And ask for an explanation if the same thing happens.
My dear husband LOVES that old stuff with the dried noodles.(((sigh))) That, and canned chop suey has him in heaven. Me? Give me the thick ‘stick to your ribs’ Shanghai Noodles with Chinese sausage. Yum!
I LOVE threads on Chinese food!
I just put away the groceries. Chinese food is in my near future: pepper steak with sweet onions and brown rice.
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
Haha no— my mystery Chinese looked much better. That’s a google pictures approximation.
Glad to hear that! I was worrying about you.
How did I miss your post!!!!! ????? All I feel is gloom and doom which (amazing coincidence) is the latest tune from the geriatric Rolling Stones
I have to disagree. That is a broiled yak leg in Obama’s mouth
Brown bread and brown rice are now and are the future. The white versions are slave food. Not joking here.
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