"mcseanerson" (mcseanerson)
02/18/2015 at 12:02 • Filed to: None
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"mcseanerson" (mcseanerson)
02/18/2015 at 12:02 • Filed to: None | 3
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Onion is not a filler for fried rice. That is all.
505Turbeaux
> mcseanerson
02/18/2015 at 12:06 |
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also, corn does not go in egg drop soup. Never
Mattbob
> mcseanerson
02/18/2015 at 12:09 |
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green onion? Green onion is delicious in fried rice.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> 505Turbeaux
02/18/2015 at 12:15 |
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i've had some with tomato in it which was also wierd and not cool
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OPPOsaurus WRX
> mcseanerson
02/18/2015 at 12:16 |
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my wife makes good fried rice. each time she made it i'd ask for more egg in it. i think we're up to like 4 eggs. also like a fried rice omlette now
WRXerFish - WRX-Wing pilot
> mcseanerson
02/18/2015 at 12:18 |
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The green chives are okay though.
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mcseanerson
> Mattbob
02/18/2015 at 12:19 |
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No, I mean like a whole white onion making up 1/3 of the entire composition of fried rice where the other 1/3 is rice and the last 1/3 is everything else. They are using it in place of cabbage, the proper fried rice filler.
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mcseanerson
> OPPOsaurus WRX
02/18/2015 at 12:19 |
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Sounds great. Another problem is none of these small town places put egg in it unless you get no meat.
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OPPOsaurus WRX
> mcseanerson
02/18/2015 at 12:24 |
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lol that doesn;t make a whole lot of sense. i would think if u want no meat you wouldn;t want egg either.
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505Turbeaux
> OPPOsaurus WRX
02/18/2015 at 12:26 |
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ugh really? Sounds awful
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Mattbob
> mcseanerson
02/18/2015 at 12:29 |
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honestly I am more concerned about the shade of yellow that it is, unless it is some kind of curry fried rice.
Textured Soy Protein
> mcseanerson
02/18/2015 at 12:30 |
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I grew up in the DC suburbs and now live in Wisconsin. The Chinese food isn't the same.
1. Except for one or two places, the overall food quality level isn't that high. It's all a bunch of greasy slop assembled with little care. But I eat it anyway.
2. Lack of authentic Chinese places. There are 1 or 2 places here that have traditional Chinese menus in addition to the usual Americanized stuff, but they're few and far between. Nowhere with traditional dim sum service, no real hand-pulled noodles, and the one place in town that serves soup dumplings (xiao long bao) is more of a quick-serve dumpling & noodle place than a full-fledged restaurant.
3. Most places love to fill up the lo mein with big slices of barely-cooked onions. Every time I order lo mein I make sure to specify no onions.
4. None of them make shredded Szechuan chicken, which was my favorite Chinese takeout item growing up in the DC area. It always came with strips of chicken, plus shredded carrot and celery. I dunno if shredded Szechuan chicken is an East coast thing or what, but none of the "Szechuan chicken" at any of the Chinese places here resembles what I want. It's always just random chicken and veggies with a vaguely spicy sauce.
There's a few places that I actually like, but none of them quite does everything I like in a Chinese restaurant, and none of them are close enough to my house to deliver there. One delivers to my office.
Maybe I'll order some delivery from that joint...
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OPPOsaurus WRX
> 505Turbeaux
02/18/2015 at 12:32 |
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yep. over the weekend I was looking at some Lobster chowder recipes. there is a lot of work that goes into that.
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505Turbeaux
> OPPOsaurus WRX
02/18/2015 at 12:36 |
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it isnt easy, but you can make a whole ton of it and freeze it. I have to remember to grab that recipe for you
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mcseanerson
> Mattbob
02/18/2015 at 12:46 |
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That is also definitely troubling but I can't eat fried rice that is half onion.
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mcseanerson
> Textured Soy Protein
02/18/2015 at 12:55 |
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I grew up in the Carolinas and Florida and the big differences I notice is that we used cabbage as the filler for fried rice instead of onion and seafood choices were a lot more prominent on the menu.
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Textured Soy Protein
> mcseanerson
02/18/2015 at 12:58 |
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Never order seafood from a Midwestern Chinese restaurant.
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mcseanerson
> Textured Soy Protein
02/18/2015 at 13:47 |
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Never order seafood in a Midwest restaurant.
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Textured Soy Protein
> mcseanerson
02/18/2015 at 14:00 |
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Some of them do alright, especially if they use purveyors who are flying stuff in. The good seafood places here in Madison use companies that fly seafood in to Chicago and drive trucks up here.
I never order crab cakes in the midwest though, because I always end up disappointed. It's just not the same as back home in MD.