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NormM wrote:When I was small, my apt. bedroom overlooked two bars across the street and a guy with a push cart would go around the area where there were two of three other bars yelling TAmaLEEES and guys would come outside and buy some. Dad would go across the street once in a while and get a few for us. That was my basis for deciding if they were good or not.
NormM wrote:In Junction City, there was a Chinese restaurant where Chinese exchange students from K-State would come to eat. They had a menu in English and one in Chinese. The Chinese one was completely different from the one they offered to non Chinese people. We would ask for a Chinese menu then ask the waitress what everything was and order whatever sounded good. It was very different from anything we have ever seen in any other Chinese restaurant.
Crybaby wrote:NormM wrote:When I was small, my apt. bedroom overlooked two bars across the street and a guy with a push cart would go around the area where there were two of three other bars yelling TAmaLEEES and guys would come outside and buy some. Dad would go across the street once in a while and get a few for us. That was my basis for deciding if they were good or not.
They had a place in N.O. called Manuel's that sold really good ones (you're always selling good ones if you're the only one selling any!) and on some corners in the city, you'd see Manuel's push carts selling them. I was almost 20 till I tried some, as my parents just never bought them.NormM wrote:In Junction City, there was a Chinese restaurant where Chinese exchange students from K-State would come to eat. They had a menu in English and one in Chinese. The Chinese one was completely different from the one they offered to non Chinese people. We would ask for a Chinese menu then ask the waitress what everything was and order whatever sounded good. It was very different from anything we have ever seen in any other Chinese restaurant.
I have a friend, Audrey, who was married to a Chinese man who is now deceased. He worked in a Chinese food restaurant for years and then Audrey and Paul opened their own restaurant in a N.O. suburb (right near where my mother lived), which was a roaring success. Paul said they never ate anything on the menu they served when he worked in a very good Chinese restaurant -- he said it was all made for American tastes. But boy, when they put something THEY ate on the menu for all to try, it was always divine and a big hit. When I tried what they made in the kitchen for the "help" to eat for lunch, it was always to die for good. Brian and I still talk about some of the dishes we miss from their restaurant, China Blossom. Audrey ran it for about 4 years or so with one of her brothers doing the cooking after Paul died (Paul had trained him and he worked there for several years when Paul was alive) but then closed it after Katrina. I tried to explain to Audrey that the restaurant and the recipes were an asset and she should SELL them but she just closed it up one day and never put it up for sale.
Barbara101 wrote:
Guess I should post in the breakfast thread.
Highly doubt anyone here wants the recipe so I will leave it here..
NormM wrote:I had an old Chinese cookbook from a New York restaurant owner that would have a 'master recipe' at the head of a chapter, then a several pages for different other recipes that said add "B" or Substitute "E" for "A".
Imelda HL wrote:Crybaby wrote:NormM wrote:When I was small, my apt. bedroom overlooked two bars across the street and a guy with a push cart would go around the area where there were two of three other bars yelling TAmaLEEES and guys would come outside and buy some. Dad would go across the street once in a while and get a few for us. That was my basis for deciding if they were good or not.
They had a place in N.O. called Manuel's that sold really good ones (you're always selling good ones if you're the only one selling any!) and on some corners in the city, you'd see Manuel's push carts selling them. I was almost 20 till I tried some, as my parents just never bought them.NormM wrote:In Junction City, there was a Chinese restaurant where Chinese exchange students from K-State would come to eat. They had a menu in English and one in Chinese. The Chinese one was completely different from the one they offered to non Chinese people. We would ask for a Chinese menu then ask the waitress what everything was and order whatever sounded good. It was very different from anything we have ever seen in any other Chinese restaurant.
I have a friend, Audrey, who was married to a Chinese man who is now deceased. He worked in a Chinese food restaurant for years and then Audrey and Paul opened their own restaurant in a N.O. suburb (right near where my mother lived), which was a roaring success. Paul said they never ate anything on the menu they served when he worked in a very good Chinese restaurant -- he said it was all made for American tastes. But boy, when they put something THEY ate on the menu for all to try, it was always divine and a big hit. When I tried what they made in the kitchen for the "help" to eat for lunch, it was always to die for good. Brian and I still talk about some of the dishes we miss from their restaurant, China Blossom. Audrey ran it for about 4 years or so with one of her brothers doing the cooking after Paul died (Paul had trained him and he worked there for several years when Paul was alive) but then closed it after Katrina. I tried to explain to Audrey that the restaurant and the recipes were an asset and she should SELL them but she just closed it up one day and never put it up for sale.
I worked at a Chinese restaurant years back, the workers always cooked their own meals, I only worked part time, 11 am to 4 pm, sometimes if I filled in for the night shift, I'd join and eat with them, the foods were so good and tasted more like my homemade foods, they cooked with the same ingredients they had in the restaurant kitchen, yet they managed to cook completely different foods for their own.. I found out that the foods on the menu basically were using the same sauce, they were only adding or omitting some ingredients to the foods they sold on the menu list
Today I cooked Chicken curry, not too spicy, I did not put too much spices, so it doesn't smell too pungent like the curry they sell in the restaurant
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