On 2015-09-17 9:42 AM, notbob wrote:
> On 2015-09-17, Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> On 2015-09-17 2:10 AM, wrote:
>
>>> in North America -- House of Bagels on Geary, just east of 15th
>>> Avenue.
>
> I don't know about all of N. America, but they are dang good. We had
> one in Santa Clara and I usta stop in for lox n' cream cheese on a
> jalapeno bagel to eat at work. Yum!
I had a pretty good cheese and jalapeno bagel with cream cheese at
Shirley's Bagels in Newport. It was good, but not up there with
Montreal bagels.
>
>> I was tempted to go to the Jack in the Box, despite my aversion to
>> franchises.
>
> Yikes! You jes revealed yer bar. I wouldn't eat JitB with yer
> mouth!! Worst burger franchise in history.
Like I said.... we were tired and hungry. I was reluctant to try Chinese
because around here it is often loaded with MSG which does a number on me.
>
>> As it turned out, Dong Bei Mama set a new bar for Chinese food for
>> me. I will never be able to eat it here again.
>
> That's the one thing I miss from CA, good Chinese food, despite it
> becoming worse and worse, daily. We have two Chi restos, here. One
> is completely inedible (thru 2 owners), the other keeps trying to
> maintain a price point, so the quality continually diminishes and I
> can no longer eat there. 
This stuff was incredible. It was way better than any Chinese food I had
ever had before. It had a wide range of Chinese dishes, unlike the local
places that have mainly Cantonese.