Tara wrote:
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>Dinner tonight:
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>My boys -- plain chicken wings and veggie fried rice
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>My husband -- sweet and sour chicken
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>Me -- mapo tofu

That's a new one for me, what's mapo tofu, I've never seen it on any
Chinese restaurant menu. Doesn't seem like anything I'd like, I like
tofu but I'm not into tortuous heat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapo_doufu

>We all shared -- veggie lo mein
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>Yes, I know it is all Americanized and inauthentic.

I don't think any cousine is authentic, it's all *******ized... take
ten bartenders and each will prepare a 2ni differently... I've yet to
order linguinni with white clam sauce and have it made the same at any
dago eatery... every Chinese restaurant in NYC's China Town prepares
Peking duck differently, each prepares dim sum differently, and
everything else... I've eaten at thousands of Chinese restaurants and
none prepares fly lice the same.

>What do you order for Chinese food?

I like most items on a Chinese restaurant menu, but if I had to choose
one dish it would be fried rice smothered with lobster sauce... I
guess that would be two dishes. I also like my favorite house special
dessert; vanilla ice cream topped with canned lychees, candied
kumquats, a paper umbrella, and a fortune cookie.