Janet Wilder wrote:
> On 1/7/2013 5:03 PM, George Leppla wrote:
>> On 1/7/2013 4:50 PM, wrote:
>>> Yes, I've had it with shrimp but most places around here just serve
>>> it as I described above then the customer adds whatever they want
>>> to the rice. There appears to be as many versions of 'Chinese
>>> food' in North America as there are Chinese in China.
>>
>> You betcha. Imagine my surprise when I moved to Texas and found that
>> the Chinese restaurants here are really superior to many other
>> places. I believe it may have something to do with the fact that
>> most of the cooks are Hispanic. No lie.
>>
>> And hearing Asian people speak with a Texas accent is a trip!
>>
>> "Y'all want Wonton or Hot and Sour soup?"
>>
>> George L
>
> We cracked up when friends took us to a local Chinese buffet in
> Brownsville the first time we visited The Valley. They had won ton
> soup, hot and sour soup, egg drop soup and menudo on the buffet.
>
> I have not found the Chinese food here very good. It's hard to find a
> restaurant that is not a buffet. We do have a decent local place where
> the menu is pretty traditional. Good, not great.
>
> Nothing in North America beats the various Chinatowns in the big
> cities. New York, San Francisco and my favorite place for Dim Sum,
> Vancouver, BC. Portland, OR has some pretty good dim sum, too.
The Kings Cafe in Seattle had excellent Dim Sum but sadly it is long gone
now. I gave up taking people there though because they were only used to
the Americanized stuff and they thought this food was weird. *shrugs*
There are some other places that serve it but I didn't find it to be as
good.