Posted on 08/02/2004 3:31:08 PM PDT by swilhelm73
They also have a medicinal item consisting of a pickled rat
Made famous in Boston as "General" Ted's Chickenrat.
A big hit at the convention, where they caught them and prepared them right at the wharf.
Not true, at least at the little hole-in-the-wall Chinese near me. They have a great Kung Po with real peanuts. Yum!!
What do they call their fine dishes in China?
Very much different.
Wrong, right, wrong.
SF's Chinese district is almost purely tourist oriented. The most dynamic aka 'real' Chinese districts right now in N. America are Vancouver and LA. These are the places were you get super competitive restaurants because of the discriminating clientele ie Chinese.
Ditto for Mexican food. Tex-Mex is ok, but traditions for the real stuff are imported along with the real illegals in SoCal.
I want to hit the restaurant scene with YOU! I'd be 500 lbs, but I'd die happy. LOL!
I was referring specifically to the chinese restaurants around me.
You're right about the Mexican food. Until very recently, we never had any Mexicans in Texas.
Bump for Carlo!
Juicy Fruit, Blackjack or a similar substance stuck under a table top or stool cushion?
Come with me, and if we eat like the Chinese ---- we'll be skinny! LOL!
The oppostie of overgum. I can always fine Lo Mein, bit never Hi Mein. I seldom see Chop Suey offered anymore. One manager once told me "Chop Suey, American, San Franrisco. We fix special if you want."
The Irish idea of cuisine seems consist entirely of potatoes, ham and cabbage boiled in a pot all day. Yuck. Corned beef was famine food. Also yuck.
I did try pig's blood in Italy and Spain, not in China.
I'll try your suggestions during my next trip there.
PS: did you read the three kingdoms? Regards
I carried a 20 foot container full of live snakes from Hong Kong to Kaohsiung, Taiwan on my ship.
Sounds like a plan. I first had the dish in Concord, but don't recall the restaurant name.
I have in front of me a bottle of wine I bought in Beijing. It is called "Three Penis Wine" (am I allowed to say that here?) It's all animal stuff, --- the three being, ocean seal, some sort of ocean ?deer? and Guangzhou dog. And altho I haven't translated all the characters on the bottle, some of the things in it are supposedly 'antler of young stag', and big sea horse. In case, you were wondering, it's a red wine, and when you look through the bottle, it's clear. Nothing floating!
I should have bought 2 bottles -- one to taste and one to keep as a curiosity.
Yah, yah, yah - I was trying to be funny. Apparently it didn't work. My bad.
I hate it when that happens. (It happens to me a LOT)...
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