Posted on 03/09/2005 9:47:25 AM PST by qam1
Lol, if such a thing really exists, I don't know about it. To the best of my knowledge, I made it up. I do own lots of do-rags and 1 good leather do rag though. It's warm, that's its true function.
I'm glad that you enjoyed it! :-)
Well, I have a chrome do-rag and billet chaps.
No, only philistines heat up chinese delivery food. Part of the fine dining experience is that it should reflect the weather as well as the tme of day that you call -- for instance, pork will always taste vaguely of fish late in the evening because of the number of times the wok has been used...
Your post is so suggestive of THE HONEY MOONERS's episode,where Norton sets his watch by which Chinese food dish's smell reaches his apartment.
...laugh if you must, but ordering Chinese food after 9 p.m., you're taking your taste buds in your hands. Except, of course, from Wo Hop...but you actually have to go there to pick up orders.
I'm gone -- must get to work.
Hedy..............maybe you can tell me if the old N.Y.C. Cantonese Chinese restaurant exists ANYWHERE any more. The last one we found and loved (it was a couple of blocks south and west of Bloomies) closed and we never could find another one to suit.
Bye bye,my dear.......
There are still a couple dozen very Cantonese joints down in chinatown. As for neighborhoods on upper west/east, I don't have a clue.
Je suis desole!
If you want authentic -- and I mean authentic -- you should try 777. I believe it's under the Williamsburg Bridge...haven't been there in a decade. The place doubles as a catering hall for Chinatown weddings.
But what I really,really,REALLY want is the old fashioned N.Y.C. Cantonese Chinese restaurant food;which nolonmger exists.:-(
I want beef in oyster sauce,as it was made in Joyce's Macao;for instance.
Like everyone else in the city, I have the one place I order from and have stuck with it for years.
My problem is that every single one I ever ate at/ordered from is now long gone.
In truth, there is really only one chinese restaurant -- or should I say kitchen -- located deep beneath the streets of Manhattan. We you call in an order, the food is prepared in this massive kitchen measuring some twenty square blocks and then transported via a sophisticated network of pneumatic tubes to the restaurant in your neighborhood. This has been going on for years and the system continues to function perfectly.
But of course! I thought that everyone knew about this and that it's no "secret" at all.
It ranks up there with the blue acropolis-themed coffee cup conspiracy surrounding greek diners. And the mystery of what came first, Ray's Pizza, Original Rays, or the New Original Rays...when it comes to NYC food conspiracies, we're through the looking glass here people. James Beard got to close to the truth and was silenced...
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...I have the secret deli recipe for N.Y. deli coleslaw. :-)
I wish I had a time machine,so I could have lunch at Shraft's one more time.
You know, I just blanked on the name of the restaurant that served as a model for Mindy's in the Runyon stories. I must be getting old...
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