Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I guess it's what you order... and , of course, your expectations... I generally ask for sea food with some simple sauce, white rice and black tea...if they have dim sum [dim sim] I often try that... I never eat egg rolls or shrimp rolls, or fried rice or egg foo yung or chop suey or chow mein or moo goo gai pan or any similar Chinese restaurant staples and, in my experience, I've rarely had a problem...I find the best Chinese food in the big cities but mostly passable Chinese food elsewhere... The worst Chinese food is in American food courts but I've even had acceptable meals there...regards, bob In a message dated 9/12/2006 4:24:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, nickbroberts@yahoo.co.uk writes: Have to say I don't agree with that at all. Far too much of the "Chinese" food I've had in restaurants is awful, and what we've said about lack of a single Indian cuisine of course counts for Chinese food. The only places I've ever really enjoyed Chinese food wherever I've chosen to eat were in Hong Kong and Malaysia and Singapore - for the rest, the odd place is acceptable, but all too many serve a pale pastich of whatever they're aiming at. IMVHO. However, in general I prefer to always choose the local cuisine, and I can't recall the last place where that wasn't such a good idea. Nick ----- Original Message ---- From: Thinkofcole@aol.com To: lug@leica-users.org Sent: Tuesday, 12 September, 2006 6:22:02 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: OT Chinese Food On the negative side, when the Chinese restaurant owners left Cuba after Castro and opened all over Manhattan, their Cuban food was --and is -- terrible and their Chinese food was -- and is --worse... On the positive side, years ago when Robert Ruark, the author, wrote for The New York Journal American, I believe, he said that wherever he traveled, he could always be sure of an acceptable meal at a Chinese restaurant...While they vary widely, of course, I adopted a similar system and have rarely been disappointed... regards, bob cole _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information