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Want some?

― anonmouse, Monday, 24 November 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

YES

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

wai u hai ding?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh MAN that's wrong

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Pass the platter, and the egg rolls....and be quick about it!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

oh GOD yes

it would save me from having to come up with a meal from the existing foodstuffs in my house: celery, a stale pita and coffee filters

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

mi pi-pi hung lo

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

nah. i still have leftover chinese food from last night.

i'll take some miso soup, tho.

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll be over in a minute.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

New Chinese place opened up near my apartment and it's pretty damn good, better than most takeout. I am pleased.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm always a sucker for good egg foo yung.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

http://villagevoice.com/issues/0347/sietsema.php

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Pork Pump from Lake Spring in Monterey Park please.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hot Chile Love" = [insert Michael Jackson joke]

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I ate here yesterday

Key paragraphs:

But I have been finding myself at Chung King a lot lately, for the pungent cured Chinese bacon fried with leeks, for the little eels stir-fried with fermented peppers, for the cold hacked chicken with chile, for the great, multiflavored beef casseroles that are so spicy they attack the nervous system like a phaser set to "stun."

And I always, of course, order the chicken -- fried chicken cubes with hot pepper. When you scoop up a mouthful, you are overwhelmed by the musky, toasty taste of the bright-red dried peppers, a limpid, searing heat that lights up obscure corners of your mouth as if you had accidentally swallowed the business end of an arc welder. Then the sharper vinegar heat of the fermented peppers kicks in, tracing the contours of your tongue in cool blue flame. A jolt of salt and garlic actually overwhelms the chiles after a moment or two -- the food at Chung King tends to be salty, although in my opinion appropriately so -- before modulating into a sustained mellow hum of Szechuan peppercorns that do for the chicken more or less what high-grade sinsemilla did for a Pink Floyd album when you were 13 years old. The ever-shifting flavors dance like a mirage.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Have any of you LAX0rs been to A&J's? Really the only Chinese take out (& its beef noodle soup is the only spicy dish) that I can stomach.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Get crab rangoons.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes for me, obv.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Have any of you LAX0rs been to A&J's? Really the only Chinese take out (& its beef noodle soup is the only spicy dish) that I can stomach.

Haven't been there, but I'd love to try it. Question though: what's the point of non-spicy Chinese food?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

You're talking to the right Chinese. If my mum's cooking, which is admittedly Americanized, it's the saltiness for one, esp. to bring out the flavor of something like black bean paste. Another is the texture of extremely tender beef (I'm thinking of that Beef & Broc. dish, I don't know what you foreign devils call it) that done right almost disintegrates in your mouth (I believe the (not-so-)secret is corn starch). Oh and heavy aroma of sauteed garlic/onions. So I'd say the pungency is the thing if you (I) can't take the hot stuff.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://los.angeles.diningguide.net/data/d100397.htm

i ate there yesterday. good dim sum.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

German Chinese food is very, very sad. Like 1950's American Chop Suey Palace sad.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, and this theory is probably pedantic, according to mummy again, it's about balancing things out. One dish may be individually to salty/spicy to eat, but you mix that up with something bland like a steamed/boiled lettuce dish, and suddenly it's a new taste sensation.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Question though: what's the point of non-spicy Chinese food?

Most isn't, especially when compared to s/e-Asian and south Asian.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Most isn't, especially when compared to s/e-Asian and south Asian.

True. But admittedly, I'm so used to eating spicy Thai and Vietnamese food that when I eat at a non-Schezuan Chinese place it's pretty bland unless I go the comfort food route and get something like Sam Woo's beef chow fun in black bean sauce which isn't "spicy", but has a very powerful flavor.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

also, my relatives seem to consider overly spicy food to be, kind of less refined/too rough. For instance, my father believes that in Suzhou women are pretty and men are gentle because they eat seafood and rice dishes which are not spicy at all. Anyway, that's one explanation. (nb - my father likes spicy stuff, but not in every dish).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Spence-

Suzhou = teochow?

does this make sense:

gaw key long (or gaw key nong?)

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

emph. on last word (i hear it with an L sometimes, othertimes an N).

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, I only know a little Chinese...

He's standing over there.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you ordering him around, Spencer?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I'm making him a monk.

No, I'm putting him into rows with his Chinese friends.

No, etc.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I know a little German too!

http://www.littlegerman.com/images/little_german_club.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I just sat here laughing for like 5 minutes at that, Spencer, wtf.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, clearly it's time for you to own the Top Secret! DVD!!! I watch it obsessively.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I need that thing in my house so I can make that joke at every conceivable opportunity!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Elf, the most popular movie in America!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I need any DVD that will make me laugh! Top Secret! must be broughten. All I own is depressing movies like Briang's Song or Se7en or Children of Paradise or This is Spinal Tap.

xpost I don't think dwarves like being called "things" Spencer!!!

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Well then, you tell ME what the f*ck those "people" should be called!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(just kidding, no offense to any ilxor dwarves.)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"umlauts"

(that xpost makes this even less funny than it already was, you bastard)

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Top Secret! Ace!

Cough! He's just a little horse."
"It's been a Hard Day's Night, and i've been working like a dog..."

― Pete S, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

If I ruled the world, every thread would devolve into a Top Secret! quote exchange!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.littlegerman.com/images/littlegerman_lesson_vis.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"......Poisson, Souffle, En-garde, et Chocolate Mousse"

― Pete S, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh great, now instead of doing my German homework, I'm waiting feverishly for Spencer to rule the world! Nice one! Now I have a good excuse to procrastinate!

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"I was exposed to the works of great thinkers: Karl Marx, Lenin, L. Ron Hubbard, Freddie Laker."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mr Rivers, how do we know you're NOT Mel Torme?"

― Pete S, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"What is the condition of Sergeant Kruger?

Yes. I see.

Well, let me know if there is any change in his condition."

*hangs up phone*

"He's Dead."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

My name means, she whose bosoms defy gravity.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still laughing at the little German, FUCK NOW I HAVE TO GO IMMEDIATELY PURCHASE THIS MOVIE, I HATE YOU ALL.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hillary, that's an unusual name."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"If they find out you've seen this, your life will be worth less than a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory."

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"Fine, be an asshole"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Why have we stopped here? This isn't a Howard Johnsons."

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My god, I need the DVD too. Val Kilmer was once the perfect actor, then he thought he should do dramas.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

i could do with some right now

― omg, Thursday, 5 February 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

a nice order of crab rangoons please

― nummygoodness (Gear!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Ho Fun (Any Flavor)

*snicker*

― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 4 July 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

i'm going to order some chinese. what should i order??? nothing too esoteric, this is just a neighborhood take-out.

― jbr: the little-known, idiosyncratic nutball (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

roast pork bunz.
hot & sour soup (good for chilly wind blooze)
lo mein of yr choice.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

bean curdz
broccoli in garlic sauz

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

General Tso's Chicken!!!!!!!
Spicy green beans!!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Cum of sum yun gui!

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

my favorite!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

haha! every time i saw an 'allyzay knows a little german' post i thought of top secret and wondered... (i'm new, the pieces are coming together)

i've always loved kung pao chicken, extra spicy.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

I would have expected that someone would have been outraged by a dish called "pork pump" by now...

I mean come on!

Nobody outside L.A. may ever have heard of the stuff, but pork pump -- basically 2 pounds of Chinese braised hog lard with a fist-size lump of soft meat at the core -- is the quintessence of sweet, heavy Shanghainese cooking, perfumed with garlic and star anise, flavored with rock sugar, and approximately the molecular weight of plutonium. The term pork "pump" supposedly originated as a typo on the original menu of Chinatown's Mon Kee (pork rump was the intention, one guesses), but the dish, and the name, soon spread to serious Chinese restaurants all over the San Gabriel Valley. The definitive version, served on a bed of snow-pea leaves at the splendid modern-style Shanghainese restaurant Lake Spring Cuisine in Monterey Park, is as luscious as the finest foie gras, and though it feeds 10 people, you may be tempted to polish it off by yourself.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

SO GOOD

― jbr: the little-known, idiosyncratic nutball (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

(i ordered beef chow fun btw, but gah, PORK PUMP)

― jbr: the little-known, idiosyncratic nutball (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Numbers 45 and 62 are amusing. Number 3 is just a flat-out disappointment. If you get the 23, ask for the pork, not the chicken. Avoid the chinese beer.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

I've recently discovered the wonder that is Singapore Chow Mei Fun, and it's brought me back to Chinese food (after abandoning it completely for over a year after discovering a great Vietnamese restaurant).

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

singapore chow mai fun is brilliant! throw a bunch of crap that's going bad into the wok and dump curry all over it so no one will notice!

― jbr: the little-known, idiosyncratic nutball (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Avoid the chinese beer.

you don't like tsingtao?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

in today's paper: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0511030163nov03,1,6410912.story?coll=chi-entertainmentfront-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

you have a bugmenot login for that, son?

― jbr: the little-known, idiosyncratic nutball (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

chinese beer is the WORST. ugh.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

i like tsingtao!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

mind, i like pretty much every beer, though.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

I was warned off Tsingtao by a friend of mine who studied in China; I've still never actually tried it myself.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

THINK FOR YOURSELF JAYMC.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

QUESTION AUTHORITY, JAYMC.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

WHY ASK WHY, JAYMC.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA BREAK THE RULES, ~~JAYMC~~BURGER KING.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

ROCK ON LONDON, ROCK ON CHICAGO, WHEATIES THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

― WESLEY WILLIS (jaymc), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

that's more like it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

i like tsingtao!

well. its the least nasty, but still nasty. yuck

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 November 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

anything's better than bai-jo!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

ooooooh i love that stuff!! i mean its nasty, but oh so nice.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 4 November 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Last night I had Chinese food delivered, from a local restaurant which has food that is generally just the right side of acceptable, but is extremely prompt about deliveries. The rice was terrible. It was like the rice I probably used to make when I was first learning to cook. It was too wet. Like maybe they had some dried out cooked rice sitting around and they said, hey, let's just add some water to that. Another Chinese restaurant I get food from usually has bad white rice (though their brown rice is okay--they are a vegetarian place). Why does a Chinese restaurant even exist if it serves bad rice?

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 19 March 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

i had chinese for lunch ... a nice shanghai shrimp dish.

― Eisbaer, Monday, 19 March 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

HU YU BANG?

― Eisbaer, Monday, 19 March 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

yum yum

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

wish you could get dim sum delivered

― stet, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

or actually, that I could. I don't mind you not getting any.

― stet, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

but you can have some of mine. I don't like the shark ones so much.

― stet, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

i find the guy who brings the chineese food suspishious (sp?)
i try to warn people with barkings but they never litsen
they say "it is okay, be quiet, he is giving us treats"
but i tastde the foods once an it was burny like it has poison

― a puppy, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

I just had mind-blowing "chinese" food. Mind. Blowing.

― gabbneb, Thursday, 18 October 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

where from?

― lauren, Thursday, 18 October 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

Philadelphia. It's the european kind of chinese food.

― gabbneb, Thursday, 18 October 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

this thread is hard to get without this:
http://www.criticalgamers.com/archives/pictures/LittleGerman.7.19.06.jpg

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

I was watching my friend read a wiki article on his iPhone last night. I just realized thanks to this thread that I think that future sucks and want to trade it for the one in the fifth element where the dim sum man makes house calls on a flying junk.

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

where in philly did you eat chinese, gabb? in chinatown?!?

― Eisbaer, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Su3 F00

― gabbneb, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Want some?

― anonmouse, Monday, November 24, 2003 6:02 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
YES

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, November 24, 2003 6:03 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
wai u hai ding?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, November 24, 2003 6:04 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Oh MAN that's wrong

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, November 24, 2003 6:04 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark

i still count this exchange as one of my proudest ILXor moments ... hee

― Poontang Clan Ain't Nothin' ta ... (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 10:54 (fifteen years ago)

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