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Pookah posted:Example of authentic Irish-Chinese fusion cooking - the Spice Bag I would absolutely gently caress with that, but if I go to a Chinese restaurant that is not what I would be expecting.
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Chinese restaurants are a whole different game.
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I keep watching Rate My Takeaway on youtube and British Chinese food is weird. "Munch Box" and "Spice Bag", interesting slang. From what I can tell its nearly always a pizza box filled with fries and fried chicken. Occasionally a side of rice.
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May 5, 2023 13:10
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put me spice bag in her munch box
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mds2 posted:I keep watching Rate My Takeaway on youtube and British Chinese food is weird. "Munch Box" and "Spice Bag", interesting slang. The English, based on their abysmal track record, should be banned from 1) using the English language 2) consuming, preparing and discussing food, unless in the privacy of a fully enclosed room
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May 5, 2023 13:26
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The fruit cocktail committee has spoken! You are to be fruited!
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May 5, 2023 13:57
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The munchy box is from Scotland, and the spice bag is Irish! There are many, many things you can blame on the English, but not those two in particular!
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Pseudohog posted:The munchy box is from Scotland, and the spice bag is Irish! There are many, many things you can blame on the English, but not those two in particular! Hm i say we should nuke England anyway just to be on the safe side
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Nettle Soup posted:Chinese restaurants are a whole different game. I think there's an issue here too, I guess "restaurant" and "takeaway" are like, entirely different businesses in the UK? In the US everything is a restaurant and the majority of places (especially now) do both takeout and dine in. There are takeout-focused or takeout-only places but they don't have a special name.
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As usual this is people fixating on a niche thing and then extrapolating it out, while also conveniently ignoring any number of similar abominations in their own back yards. Getting a Chinese takeaway is a common occurrence and it would be the same kind of westernised Chinese food that you'd see in a Panda Express. I don't know people who would just get fries and chicken and say its Chinese. Personally I dislike Chinese takeaways generally but whenever people get them it's always stuff like spring rolls, duck pancakes, chow mein, sweet and sour pork, black pepper beef, crispy seaweed, sweetcorn soup etc. Any medium sized city in the UK has more authentic restaurants as well which would be frequented by actual Chinese people - our family hosted Chinese students for many years and they would take us to restaurants which they said were authentic enough.
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Grand Fromage posted:I think there's an issue here too, I guess "restaurant" and "takeaway" are like, entirely different businesses in the UK? In the US everything is a restaurant and the majority of places (especially now) do both takeout and dine in. There are takeout-focused or takeout-only places but they don't have a special name. A takeaway will pretty much never have a space to sit in. They're normally a counter with the fryers behind and a space to stand while you wait. You might get a couple of chairs or a windowsill to perch on, but that's it. It's one step up from street-food. A restaurant will probably not do takeout, but might? I wouldn't rely on it though, and they're generally more authentic. I think it's to do with the walking / car culture difference between here and the US.  (and for fun, here's the menu of this random place I found on google, it is entirely generic)
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Very amused by the OK sauce section.
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Nettle Soup posted:I think the thing is, in the UK, most chinese places are fish and chip shops first, and the Chinese takeaway aspect is secondary. Not all fish and chips shops will do Chinese, but most, if not all, Chinese takeaways will do fish and chips. Then they sell nuggets or whatever for the kids, because who cares, you have the oil going anyway, may as well bulk out the menu. I have never in my life seen a combination chippy and chinese, they do chips but not fish.
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OwlFancier posted:I have never in my life seen a combination chippy and chinese, they do chips but not fish. Live in the North West, literally every Chinese place will do fish n chips too.
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Huh, yeah I'm in the North West, regional differences I guess!
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May 5, 2023 15:49
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 "Made for particular people by particular people." You know the kind.
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This kills the guest.
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Mmmm...I can feel my arteries hardening just watching that video.
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I gained 5 lbs just watching that. But I'm gonna make it worse. Cut two slices, not terribly thick, and brown both side in a skillet with some butter, and make a sandwich out of it. Grilled cheese, if you really wanna go overboard.
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My problem with that, and other similarly OTT concoctions, is that you're going to a lot of effort to make something that would be strictly worse than the constituent ingredients - baked macaroni cheese with pancetta or bacon is banging by itself. In that wellington form it's going to be a gloopy congealed stodge monster.
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first sous vide the elbow noodles then blanch them then roll them in cornstarch and par boil them then drain and toss in olive oil and air fry them next you need to crush them in a ziplock and sprinkle that on preexisting macaroni to make Nueroni next you ball up the Nueroni and deep fry those balls finally you finely grate the balls over a plate of spaghetti optional, roll the whole thing in cake batter and sunbake it.
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Butterfly Valley posted:My problem with that, and other similarly OTT concoctions, is that you're going to a lot of effort to make something that would be strictly worse than the constituent ingredients - baked macaroni cheese with pancetta or bacon is banging by itself. In that wellington form it's going to be a gloopy congealed stodge monster.
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I'm pretty sure a pastry lid would just make the top of the macaroni soggy
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steinrokkan posted:I'm pretty sure a pastry lid would just make the top of the macaroni soggy
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My mum used to add cheese and onion crisps, which was pretty good.
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zedprime posted:All of the artificial crispification of mac and cheese tops does unmentionable things to the macaroni or cheese so I feel like that'd be par for the course. The bonus with a pastry lid being like a pot pie you can soak crispy pastry in the bechamel. panko breadcrumbs never ruined my mac
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LifeSunDeath posted:first sous vide the elbow noodles
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SLOSifl posted:Can I drain the oil into the toilet since I'm already in the rest stop bathroom? Or is that bad for the pipes? it is good for the pipes, as a treat
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Just to clarify, I was reacting to one specific (American) poster who said that fries and chicken wings is a "standard Chinese takeout order" not characterizing all of England, misguided and demented as they may be.
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Nettle Soup posted:A takeaway will pretty much never have a space to sit in. They're normally a counter with the fryers behind and a space to stand while you wait. You might get a couple of chairs or a windowsill to perch on, but that's it. It's one step up from street-food. Yeah, most places in the US, a takeout-centric place with no seating inside (A rare enough occurrence on its own in my experience) will usually have a set of picnic tables outside to sit at, even a food truck might carry a couple plastic tables and chairs to plop on the sidewalk. e: Also, that menu shows like 2-3 times as much variety as the sit-down, dine-in Chinese restaurants I'm personally familiar with 
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"Char siu curry" sounds like it's going to be a lot less than the sum of its parts.
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Nej, tack.
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The story of an immigrant community building up their own unique cuisine by just slapping together what little they know to make a livin' in the strange different world they find themselves in can often be more interesting than the story of people immigrating already knowing everything to cook and doing basically what they would've done where they came from with just a few tweaks. Only thing is that England doesn't really have as much of a history with Chinese immigrants forming their own evolving subculture as they do with Indian immigrants, so there's a pretty strong Indian influence in that menu. Anyway have a rare example of another country doing its take on english food. 
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Needs a big slice of tomato in the middle of the plate.
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No r- oh. Good job.
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Captain Hygiene posted:
wtfuck is “mock cream”
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