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Chinese Takeout
"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> 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
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> 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
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>>We all shared -- veggie lo mein
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>>Yes, I know it is all Americanized and inauthentic.
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> 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.
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>>What do you order for Chinese food?
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> 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH2P_pVze6s
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