Re: Crummy Chinese Food (WAS: My beef about coffee...and tea


Sheldon wrote:

Gregory Morrow wrote:
Sheldon wrote:

Any decent Chinese restaurant in NYC will bring you all the piping hot
tea you can consume, in fact Chinese restaurant tea is the only tea I
will drink, all others are pond water. That said there are fewer and
fewer decent Chinese restaurants in NYC... the take outs suck, as do
the all you can eat joints... may as well do Chun King.


This is true in Chicago as well, especially for take - out joints.
Their
food is generally DIRE...even places that were decent a few years ago
have
declined (whilst raising prices, NATCHERLY). Why is this I wonder?
Sheer
laziness or...???

It's not an especially complicated cuisine, the raw ingredients are
easily
available, and Chinese cooks CANNOT be that consistently bad...plus
there is
plenty of competition. What gives?

Actually good authentic American style Chinese coozine is not all that
inexpensive, the tab can run fairly high for a full service, full
course dinner n' exotic paper bumbershoot drinkypoos... and most round
eyes have become too used to paying fast food joint and family style
chain restaurant prices... last time I went to my favorite Chinese
restaurant the damage exceeded $100 a head before tip. I mean like
even the least expensive pick; egg drop soup, spare ribs, egg roll,
chow mein, flied lice, a scoop of pisstachio is gonna run like $40 per.
But if yoose choose house special sweet n' sour zupe, Cantonese shimp
n' lobster sauce, Peking sesame duck, General Taos beef, and the like,
not to mention some fancy leechee/cumtwat dessert and a few drinkypoos
yer gonna easy hit that hundrit smacker mark.


Ah, the "Hong Kong Gardens" from _The Honeymooners_! Alice loved them lichi
nuts for dessert...


Many good Chinese joints just aren't doing enough business to make
it... and they can't compete with the take outs, which have become the
benchmark of the multitudes... the taste in assers actually think
shoestring freedom fries in a styrofoam clam shell is seafood, NOT!

And the neighborhood ethnicty changes... Yids and WOPS appreciate good
Chinese, Afros and Hispanics do not... in fact no restaurant does well
in Afro/Hispanic neighborhoods, only fast food drive-bys n'
sports/titty bars survive.

Sheldon Fong Gool House


Lol...you are spot - on with all yer comments :-)

--
Best
Greg




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