OK, so Chang’s knows how to cook Kung Pao, so does the place I go to here in the middle of nowhere. The question is, can they do Mushu?
The thing to me is that there is a vast difference between a chain, a regular, and a REAL (insert type of cuisine) restaurant. Be it Chinese, Mexican, Indian, or seafood or whathaveyou.
I spent years eating in Chinatown in NY and so I am really snobby about Chinese food. I’m also snobby about Indian food, and have become really so when it comes to Mexican or other Latin American cuisines. I’m really getting into Guatemalan tamales :)
We don’t eat as much oriental food as we used to because I no longer have the sources for ingredients I had in Dover. We eat far more Latina American food because of the easy access to the ingredients. Where you live you can probably pick the cuisine you enjoy and have access to all the ingredients. I make do with what I have available.
the point is, Changs doesn’t oversauce or fill dishes with vegetables, which is very common in chinatown restaurants. what i objected to was you equating Pfchangs with a panda express drive thru chinese restaurant or the place where Travis the yuppie eats at the mall. ; )