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It's 3:30 over here and I'm just now eating lunch. I've been busy. I ordered chow mein from my local Cinese restaurant and asked them to make it extra spicy. They threw in Jalapeno peppers. Not the ordinary Chinese dried red peppers, not the chili oil I'm used to, Jalapenos. It's like southwestern chow mein. Weird. Have you guys ever gotten something unexpected from a Chinese or other "ethnic" restaurant?

Sea cucumber

Sea cucumber
Yeah, but did you expect it? I would expect some sea cucumber in, let's say, Japanese food. I wouldn't expect corn. Jalapenos cross the same cultural line IMHO.

I love to find a new Chinese place that delivers and eventually order everything on the menu (over time, not all at once, dickheads).
I don't really find anything commercially available in America to be strange, really. Perhaps I just eat too much Asian cuisine to tell when I'm eating something out of the ordinary.

THIS (http://www.soundamerica.com/sounds/spoofs/Music/catfood.wav) about sums it up... (small .wav file) :p

our local chinese food place offers fries as a side dish to go with the regular stuff you get. it freaked me out first time i saw it.

Yeah, but did you expect it? I would expect some sea cucumber in, let's say, Japanese food. I wouldn't expect corn. Jalapenos cross the same cultural line IMHO.

No. I thought I had ordered a beef dish. Then I picked this gelatinous wedge out of my mouth. I asked what it was.

When told, the instant image of a rotifer defending itself by everting its innards out in a colorful display (as seen in a National Geographic photo) popped into my mind.

No. I thought I had ordered a beef dish. Then I picked this gelatinous wedge out of my mouth. I asked what it was.

When told, the instant image of a rotifer defending itself by everting its innards out in a colorful display (as seen in a National Geographic photo) popped into my mind.
Wow, that could be kinda gross. Expecting normal beef and biting into a gelatinous invertibrate might ruin my meal.

who the heck puts jalapenos in asian food? i'd call them up and say wtf?

i got cucumbers on my big mac once instead of pickles. like real cukes they use in their salads i guess. it was strange.

I went to a Mexican food restaurant once which had been so blanquizado that the "taco sauce" tasted more like spaghetti sauce. Too much oregano, not enough pepper or onion. Two thumbs down.

who the heck puts jalapenos in asian food? i'd call them up and say wtf?

i got cucumbers on my big mac once instead of pickles. like real cukes they use in their salads i guess. it was strange.
Maybe they're from Southwestern China. Kinda reminds me of the Ween song "Japanese Cowboy".

Maybe they're from Southwestern China. Kinda reminds me of the Ween song "Japanese Cowboy".
IIRC there's an awful lot of Japanese in Chile... (in fact, wassabi powder is one of the secret ingredients in my chili...) :eek:

IIRC there's an awful lot of Japanese in Chile... (in fact, wassabi powder is one of the secret ingredients in my chili...) :eek:
There's one Japanese who can't leave Chile until they decide to deport him to Peru or back home. Also I make a truly wretched chili. The entire state of Texas should really be trying to hunt me down for sins against their food.

I've got a friend who makes spam fried rice. It's not that unusual I suppose, but I hate spam.

I've got a friend who makes spam fried rice. It's not that unusual I suppose, but I hate spam.
Considering the last thread I started I must love it.

I've got a friend who makes spam fried rice. It's not that unusual I suppose, but I hate spam.
MMMMmmmmm!

Diced Spam, Brown Sugar and Vinegar! Sautee until sugar/vinegar is gooey & add chinese style cooked rice. Fling about until well mixed. Add fresh vegetables to taste.

Yummy! :p

Upon my first visit to the "Outback Steakhouse" in America I was told it had Australian cuisine. So I was eagerly awaiting a real Aussie hamburger, which has proper ingredients like egg and beetroot that Americans seem to think are strange to have on a hamburger, and leaves off that silly pickle that MacDonalds introduced to the Australian palate.

However, I could not find one single hamburger that vaguely resembled anything I'd eat at a hamburger place at home. On top of that, the menu sported such items as the "bloomin' onion" - something which I was assured was totally Australian, but which in my 36 years of living in the country I had never encountered.

The only thing Aussie about the restaurant was that some of the roadsigns looked genuine, and they had some Sydney Nolan prints on the wall. That was it. The menu was totally American.

Upon my first visit to the "Outback Steakhouse" in America I was told it had Australian cuisine. So I was eagerly awaiting a real Aussie hamburger, which has proper ingredients like egg and beetroot that Americans seem to think are strange to have on a hamburger, and leaves off that silly pickle that MacDonalds introduced to the Australian palate.

However, I could not find one single hamburger that vaguely resembled anything I'd eat at a hamburger place at home. On top of that, the menu sported such items as the "bloomin' onion" - something which I was assured was totally Australian, but which in my 36 years of living in the country I had never encountered.

The only thing Aussie about the restaurant was that some of the roadsigns looked genuine, and they had some Sydney Nolan prints on the wall. That was it. The menu was totally American.
Sorry. Hope this helps.

http://www.chott.com/album/halloween_2.jpg

Sorry. Hope this helps.

http://www.chott.com/album/halloween_2.jpg

:D Oh, indeed that does.

I've also taken to making my own hamburgers at home now that I live in the US, and learned not to expect any food to be what I expect it to be. ;)

:D Oh, indeed that does.

I've also taken to making my own hamburgers at home now that I live in the US, and learned not to expect any food to be what I expect it to be. ;)
I ordered a Calzone in Rome once. It was disappointing compared to the calzones available in North and Central NJ and New York city. I guess you can't expect food to be what you're used to anywhere but at home.

Hehe. There is this 'chinese' place near my house, its called 'Caledonian Chinese Fish and Chips'.

our local chinese food place offers fries as a side dish to go with the regular stuff you get. it freaked me out first time i saw it.

I've seen that in Puerto Rico.

\On top of that, the menu sported such items as the "bloomin' onion" - something which I was assured was totally Australian, but which in my 36 years of living in the country I had never encountered.
Blooming Onions are one of the better things you can do with an onion, and that is why you have never encoutered them in Australia. The Bourgeious horde Blooming Onions and never let them go out into mass consumption, but somehow USians started smuggling them into the country under the cover of darkness, inspite of the interference of the lizard people and JESUSBOMB.

Hehe. There is this 'chinese' place near my house, its called 'Caledonian Chinese Fish and Chips'.
Could be worse (better?) I used to frequent a Chinese Pizza Parlor. :eek: Mongolian Beef Pizza.... Mmmmmmmmmmm :D

Bull's Penis Soup (http://chaxiubao.typepad.com/chaxiubao/2005/08/_bulls_pennis_n.html)

What can I say...

Actually, we have this awesome Chinese resteraunt in town. It's called Dac Hoa... I walked into the kitchen, because the owners' daughter is my sister's best friend and I was looking for them...

Open. Pig.

In Mexico City the girlfriend I was with asked for fish soup--and got it, along with the fish eyes. She ate the soup, but not the eyes. I was proud of her.

When I was in China I ate Jellyfish. But because it was fried, it didn't look, or taste like you would think.
But it was really, really spicy.

I never ate any of the more adventurous things though. They were on the markets all over the place. Primarily in Guangzhou, they had big water beetles, snakes, little rodents and kittens. And everything was still alive.

Yeah, but did you expect it? I would expect some sea cucumber in, let's say, Japanese food. I wouldn't expect corn. Jalapenos cross the same cultural line IMHO.

You need to come to Japan. They put corn in lots of stuff - it's hard to imagine a pizza, green salad, potato salad, and other items without corn.

There's one Japanese who can't leave Chile until they decide to deport him to Peru or back home.

A bit of a sticky one that. I'm glad he was silly enough to go back on his own. IMO, he was rather an embarassment to my host country.

Also I make a truly wretched chili. The entire state of Texas should really be trying to hunt me down for sins against their food.

As a Texan, I hearby declare a lynch mob.

The day I stop eating dog is the day that America stops euthanizing them.

Actually, we have this awesome Chinese resteraunt in town. It's called Dac Hoa... I walked into the kitchen, because the owners' daughter is my sister's best friend and I was looking for them...

Open. Pig.

I'm sure it's not pronounced the same, but the first thing that came to my mind on reading that was "What an unfortunate name - the Dachau concentratiuon camp".

There's a place down the road that does teriyaki chicken pizza. Even worse it offers rice noodles with pasta sauce. I kid you not.

*shudder*

So we are talking generic crap Chinese food here not the really interesting stuff that no one knows about?

THIS (http://www.soundamerica.com/sounds/spoofs/Music/catfood.wav) about sums it up... (small .wav file) :p

Ho-ho-my god.:D

There's a place down the road that does teriyaki chicken pizza. Even worse it offers rice noodles with pasta sauce. I kid you not.

*shudder*

After 14+ years of observing pizza atrocities from the front (Japan is to pizza what Bergen-Belsen was to humanitarianism), teriyaki chicken is not even close to the worst crime against pizza. Abominations such as "Shredded Pork, Shimeji Mushrooms, Bamboo Shoots, Nori (seaweed), Shiso (perilla) Leaves" exist here. And I can't speak of the horrors of a pizzaria putting out a pie (I can't bear to call it a pizza) SANS ANY SAUCE AT ALL...

:::breaks down weaping: The horror, the HORROR!

After 14+ years of observing pizza atrocities from the front (Japan is to pizza what Bergen-Belsen was to humanitarianism), teriyaki chicken is not even close to the worst crime against pizza. Abominations such as "Shredded Pork, Shimeji Mushrooms, Bamboo Shoots, Nori (seaweed), Shiso (perilla) Leaves" exist here. And I can't speak of the horrors of a pizzaria putting out a pie (I can't bear to call it a pizza) SANS ANY SAUCE AT ALL...

:::breaks down weaping: The horror, the HORROR!

You need to go to Pizza Hut in Bangkok. Now that's an atrocity. Japanese pizza is tame by comparison.

IIRC there's an awful lot of Japanese in Chile... (in fact, wassabi powder is one of the secret ingredients in my chili...) :eek:


Chili is from Texas, not Chile. ;)

You need to go to Pizza Hut in Bangkok. Now that's an atrocity. Japanese pizza is tame by comparison.
Pizza Hut by itself is an attrocity.

You need to go to Pizza Hut in Bangkok. Now that's an atrocity. Japanese pizza is tame by comparison.

I will be impressed if Bangkok can out do this (http://www.pizza-la.co.jp/campaign/hamtaro.html).

And I'd risk being banned for obcenity if I posted a pic of the sauceless mochi and green onion train wreck that Pizza La dares to call a "pizza". :eek:

But the "Non-fatty, Japanese-style pizza" with potato and mayonaise... it is on the same level as the poetry of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings...

Pizza Hut by itself is an attrocity.

:)

Pizza Hut by itself is an attrocity.
*laughs silently*

Pizza Hut by itself is an attrocity.


Once again, and in the same day, you have beaten me to the punch.

Once again, and in the same day, you have beaten me to the punch.Only because it was heavily spiked... he IS DCD after all... :p

Considering the last thread I started I must love it.
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