Do you like Chinese Food?
I love it!
I enjoy an occasional meal.
It's OK.
I can live without.
Hell naw!
Never had it, never will.
I love it!
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I enjoy an occasional meal.
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It's OK.
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I can live without.
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Hell naw!
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Never had it, never will.
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In St. Louis, we (i.e., black folks) call it Chinamen. We say things like - "Let's go to the Chinamen." "I want some Chinamen." "The Chinamen on Grand is better than the one Jefferson." It's a catch-all term & is used by the generation before me, my own & the younger ones.
Most old folks call it Chop Suey. {Just replace Chinamen above with Chop Suey and there you have it.}
The white folks just call it Chinese.
I call it "Chinese" of maybe "Hunan" One of my friends referred to it as "poodles & noodles". If that is the case, give me some more poodle then!
ReplyDeleteAnd every ONE of y'alls damn china houses are called CHOP SUEY!
ReplyDelete**HOLLARIN**
ReplyDeleteHillarious!
ReplyDeleteMOST of the places here are carryouts... it's very rare that I actually go INTO a sit-down Chinese restaurant, no matter the school (there are four major "schools" of Chinese cooking - I think it's like Hunan/Szechuan, Mandarin and Cantonese -- I just read that in a NYT article). So usually we just say, let's order from the Carryout.
ReplyDeleteI miss the one closest to where I used to live (in Greenbelt)... all of their food was the bomb, better than some of the sit-down places I've been to.
I love Chinese, which is what we call it. I guess that isn't politically correct since it sounds like we're going to actually eat a Chinese person. But I love it!
ReplyDeleteConsidering the fact that I have CHINESE food at minimum 3 times a week at work, I should be calling them mom or something... they know me by name now... lmao...
ReplyDelete"Shrimp with Lobster sauce NO black beans please... and extra soy sauce and a cherry coke" $6.12
Me, myself, personally, I love shrimp and/or ham fried rice (brown, not white rice with a lil brown coloring) and hot braised chicken and bourbon chicken over steamed rice.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds really good right about now...
ReplyDeleteDon't feel bad. It's quick, cheap & good. In my so-called "lifestyle" change, I've limited myself to no more than once a week...if that.
ReplyDeletethe only way to stop me.. is to bring my lunch every day.... which I may do... trying to save money...
ReplyDeleteWe call it chinese as well. Even better, we used to call any store owned or run by asians/koreans "The chinese store. " I know that i'm not the only one that used to do that. Seems a bit racist in hindsight :) I used to love it until I just lookes at my chicken egg foo and wondered what kind of chicken looks like that? But it's always bangin!!!!
ReplyDeleteI call it the Chinese place or the Rice House. Ha!
ReplyDeleteI've heard that term used....just can't remember where. I think it was my uncle in KC.
ReplyDeleteWe just say the Chinese Store. Then u have to differentiate between dirty chinese (i.e., Carryout) or clean chinese (P.F. Changs). Dirty usually wins.
ReplyDeleteI love PF Changs, but the lil hole in the wall type places have the best fried rice.
ReplyDeletethat's what most E. St. Louisans call it.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, haven't heard that up here. we usually just say "Chinese". Now, I have heard Poodles and Noodles used here. Had some "clean" chinese last night *YUMMY!*
ReplyDeleteI really don't like PF Chang. I had to pick the food apart so much it was pointless. Apparently whatever I ordered had Brown Rice and it was not good at all.
Funny...that's where I grew up!
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