Does anyone here like Chinese?
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Lilith — 6 years ago(February 29, 2020 08:11 PM)
I realize it's been "Americanized" for flavour and portion size. I haven't eaten Chinese in years, but I was getting a hankering, and there's no where around here in this neck of the woods that delivers, so I had to go for quite the drive. The confusing part is Yelp showed lots of 4's and 5's so I figured, "it can't
really
be all
that
bad.
Right?
I mean,…not
really
that bad,….right?"
I drove out there, picked up my chicken dish, rice, eggroll and drove home.
I get all the way home, and everything tasted and felt so dried out. The eggroll was oily and dried out. The rice was hard and dry. Same with the chicken, so dried out and hard and the broccoli was ultra "al dente" – as in hard, almost raw.
It was as if they just kept all the ingredients in separate containers and mixed what they needed per individual serving. Nothing there tasted like the Chinese dishes I remember. Certainly not from Chinatown in Boston, that's for sure.
About 25 minutes later I got home and was ready to eat but everything was so hard. Is this what it's like when you get Chinese food? I'm wondering if it's my location or something. Nothing tasted like it was supposed to. If I fed my dog "people food" he'd haven all set.
Blech.
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Lilith — 6 years ago(February 29, 2020 09:50 PM)
I think it's not just where I live in particular, in the North East, but also not near any colleges or more urban areas that are diversely populated. Those within driving distance all serve……pizza. I can get lots and lots of pizza should I crave that.
I'm not sure if it's from the Chinese yesterday but my stomach isn't feeling so hot this evening to boot!
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xTxTx — 6 years ago(March 01, 2020 10:40 AM)
It's possible that after the 25 minute drive a couple minutes of spinning in the microwave would have softened everything up after sprinkling a tiny bit of water on it all beforehand.
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Lilith — 6 years ago(March 01, 2020 12:46 AM)
Probably more Japanese than Chinese when it comes to homemade.
I generally don't eat a lot of Chinese. After all, it's been a few years since I had it, and I rarely if ever crave it. I'm probably good for another few year now.
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Ⲥⲏⳕⲥⲕⲁⲃⲟⲟⲙ — 6 years ago(March 01, 2020 03:23 AM)
Sounds like the Chinese places in your area are just crappy.
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