On 2015-12-18, KenK > wrote:

> Maybe it was Chun King. I forget and the can is long gone. Whatever brand
> Walmart sells.

Yeah, Chun King is long gone. La Choy is its replacement. My mom
usta buy these things all the time and it reminds me what chow mein
usta be like. Mostly bean sprouts over crispy fried noodles (dry).
Oh, and the La Choy stuff is abysmal. Bean sprouts don't can well
and the "brown gravy" one adds to the overall dish is some really
nasty stuff. I tossed all my mom's cans of La Choy.

I recall when I was a kid, all the chow mein in Chinese restos were
always offered with baan sprouts over dry fried noodles. Now, you'd
be damn lucky to even find such a dish, except in a La Choy can. All
the Chinese restos in the SFBA serve "pan fried" noodles. IOW, mostly
soft spaghetti-like noodles cooked in a lotta oil. Zero bean sprouts.
No kidding. Whenever I ask for the crispy noodles and bean sprouts
choice, the Chinese ppl running a resto look at me like I'm from the
funny farm. The last resto in CA I've found that offers the old
"choice" of chow meins is a Chinese resto way down in Visalia CA and
that was 10 yrs ago. I can understand it --kinda-- the "pan fried"
noodles are waaaaay cheaper than buying and cooking the more expensive
mung bean sprouts.

Reminds me of what an old girlfriend usta say about Chinese food. She
didn't eat it cuz she said, "Yer being ripped off. Buncha damn
overpriced noodles". I can't argue. :|


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