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- From: llew@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Lok C. Lew Yan Voon)
- Newsgroups: ne.food
- Subject: Re: Deceptive menu practices
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 17:44:41 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Lines: 49
- Distribution: ne
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- In article <BxtHKM.6Ao@world.std.com> rhs@world.std.com (Richard H Schwartz) writes:
- >The night started off with a big surprise: the Egg Drop soup
- >contained pieces of pork. Upon a closer look, I guessed that
- >it was a pork broth as well. I have never seen or heard of
- >Egg Drop soup that is pork-based. I do a lot of Oriental
- >cooking, and none of my cook books have pork-based recipes for
- >Egg Drop soup. Many restaurants put it on their menu as "Chicken
- >Egg Drop" soup.
- >
-
- this thread of "never seen or heard" seems to be recurrent.
- i'm "chinese", i've looked at a few books, i've eaten at dozens
- of restaurants around the whole, i've only once seen some dishes
- cooked the way i learned them. note also that there are billions
- of chinese people, making up thousands of micro-cultures, not
- even mentioning the evolution due to migration. maybe you're
- "unlucky" to go to a restaurant which serves "authentic" chinese
- cuisine as opposed to americanized one. unless they said chicken
- on the menu and gave you pork and refused to accept the mistake,
- i think your friends should take the blame.
- having said all this, i'll add that i refuse to make irish stew
- the way it's stated in all books!
-
- >unacceptable to many people, the menu should have specified "Egg
- >Drop Soup with Pork".
- >
-
- this has happened to me b/f too. how many of us have ordered
- something and got something different from our expectation?
- when it happens to me, i swear at myself for not having checked
- ahead of time. i think your only soln is to call up a restaurant
- ahead of time to make sure.
-
- i do have something else to add: always take the manager's reply
- with a grain of salt (this is especially true at chinese restaurants).
- i've friends who own chinese restaurants or have worked there.
- i've visited a few kitchens too.
- they don't (in general) have woks dedicated to cooking chicken,
- or pork, or beef only. and in between dishes, the common way of
- cleaning a wok is to scantily rinse it with water. there'll always
- be traces of other stuff. also, the gravy in dishes often start
- from a generic soup. tons of other things can be said and it's
- probably best left unknown!
-
- bottomline: we're all going at our own risk. i'm willing to take
- it if i keep my eyes close and enjoys the food.
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