On 2/10/2014 8:40 PM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:17:36 -1000, dsi1
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>> They don't serve crab/cheese won tons in Chinese restaurants over here.
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> The only time I hear about that stuff is here on rfc, so it's being
> served somewhere - but not where we eat. I was wondering if that
> "crab rangoon" stuff posters always gush here about is the crab/cheese
> won ton in question.
> http://octaviasvintage.wordpress.com...ooo-delicious/

I have had the crab rangoon at Pandas, it was OK although they were
skimping on the filling. There was nothing wrong with the idea but it
doesn't seem very Chinese to me so I wouldn't order it in a Chinese
restaurant. If I saw it on the menu at a Chili's or Ruby Tuesday, I'd
give it a go.

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>> I guess we're not American enough.
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> Probably not. I thought General Tso's Chicken was strictly NYC until
> someone tried to show what an idiot I was and posted that it was on a
> menu in a restaurant an hour away. Now I see that it's in the hot
> food section of the deli in my supermarket... I like it! It's not hot
> enough for me, but it would send Ophelia into outer space.
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>> The Panda chain just added these
>> items to their menu. Cream cheese is kinda goofy in Chinese restaurants.
>> My guess is that it is served in trendy Asian fusion restaurants but for
>> most traditional places, it's won ton backwards - not now!
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>> One thing that is served in every Chinese restaurant over here is cake
>> noodle. I love that stuff although you won't find it in any Chinese
>> restaurant in China or America, only Hawaii. I do not know why this is
>> so. No matter, it will be served in the rest of the US sooner or later.
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> I have my likes too. Actually a lot of likes; but your cake noodles
> immediately brought up an image of sizzling rice soup... something
> that can only be fully appreciated in a restaurant at the moment when
> they slip the rice into the bowl of soup at the table.

I've never had sizzling rice soup although I have heard it speak in
restaurants. Pretty cool stuff. Those Chinese!

You can buy fried chow mein noodles shaped into a cake that's around a
foot in diameter here. I don't know if it's sold on the mainland. The
idea is that put the cake of noodles on a big plate and you add stir fry
with extra gravy on top. The gravy softens the noodles. My high school
friend says that I once made a plate of that stuff when we were in
school and my brother, for some reason, took it upon himself to eat the
entire thing. I don't remember the incident - probably too traumatic. :-)

OTOH, if you say "cake noodle" around here, we mean crispy fried Chinese
egg noodles that are pressed into a cake and cut into a square. I think
that a lot of people will eat in a Chinese restaurant just to get their
cake noodle fix. That would include me.

http://dining.staradvertiser.com/201...n-cake-noodle/


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