Inspired by the Chinese take out thread...Does anyone really think...

[hrh_disney_queen]

....they use meat other than what they describe on the menu? You know what people used to say Chinese food was made from...usually chicken. Are you leary? I never even think about it.

 

[sunnyday123]

I think it's what they say it is...but I have a very overactive imagination, and gross myself out very easily. One place here doesn't de-vein their shrimp, and I order it EVERY time ( not sure why, I know what's coming ) and then eat about 2 before I am done.

I can't even eat eggs if I think about where they came from and what they are.

 

[themarquis]

that's weird -- I've never heard people say that

It's pretty easy to tell what meat is being used when you're eating something. Different meats have different textures/tastes -- it's hard to believe you could disguise one as another.

Some "American Chinese food" (i.e., the sugar/grease/salt covered poo that most places serve as "chinese food" and that isn't anything of the sort ) does seem to have really low quality meat used; like fatty bits of dark-meat chicken, etc. Is that what people mean?

Or do they think Chinese food is made from people?

 

[freckles and boo]

Our best local Asian place (which serves Chinese, Japanese, and Thai dishes) is extremely nice, always insanely busy, and a well-established part of our community. Every Christmas the regular customers receive little trinkets and $20 gift certificates. They would have a LOT to lose by doing something dumb like that.

 

[Tinijocaro]

A Chinese restaurant near my house was all over the news for having a deer in their kitchen- a whole deer that was obtained through roadkill! The Board of Health closed them down for a week, then they reopened and their parking lot sits empty! Can you imagine? Roadkill for dinner?

 

[Anewman]

I have heard jokes like...

Hey did you know they wok their dogs?

I think it would be more expensive then using actual chicken, so I never took it to be real.

 

[sunnyday123]

I have heard jokes like...

Hey did you know they wok their dogs?

I think it would be more expensive then using actual chicken, so I never took it to be real.

We went to a Chinese restaurant the other night, and everytime I took a bite my brother Meow'ed.

We were hysterical by the end of the night.

 

[travelbug]

A Chinese restaurant near my house was all over the news for having a deer in their kitchen- a whole deer that was obtained through roadkill! The Board of Health closed them down for a week, then they reopened and their parking lot sits empty! Can you imagine? Roadkill for dinner?

 

[Tinijocaro]

Think about it-have you ever been to Chinatown in any major city? Have you seen the things they sell for food? Anything that was once alive, they dry and use in their cooking. I've seen some pretty strange foods that were dried in Chinatown. It's part of their culture to eat everything and anything.

 

[themarquis]

A Chinese restaurant near my house was all over the news for having a deer in their kitchen- a whole deer that was obtained through roadkill! The Board of Health closed them down for a week, then they reopened and their parking lot sits empty! Can you imagine? Roadkill for dinner?

Venison! People pay big bucks for that!

 

[Anewman]

It's part of their culture to eat everything and anything.

I dont agree

 

[olena]

A Chinese restaurant near my house was all over the news for having a deer in their kitchen- a whole deer that was obtained through roadkill! The Board of Health closed them down for a week, then they reopened and their parking lot sits empty! Can you imagine? Roadkill for dinner?

That happened in the town where my ILs live. A Wal-Mart security camera recorded the proprietors hauling a deer carcass across the parking lot into the restaurant at night. That prompted a call to the HD and more than a deer was found. Stories like that are not unheard of around here either. The most infamous was at a warehouse that distributed food and supplies to Chinese restaurants in the Atlanta area. The warehouse was overrun with rats chewing through the supplies. That happened at this place more than once.

I feel safe at P.F. Chang's. I've gotten to the point where I pretty much only order shrimp at Chinese restaurants, since there's little chance that I'm eating Sweet & Sour Whatcha-ma-carcass.

 

[Tinijocaro]

I dont agree

ok, maybe slightly exaggerated, but they eat a heck of a lot more variety of foods (plant and animal) than we americans do.

 

[Anewman]

ok, maybe slightly exaggerated, but they eat a heck of a lot more variety of foods (plant and animal) than we americans do.

Maybe, I just don't believe in across the board generalizations. As a Mexican, I define my culture. Some things I have embraced and other things not so much. We dont all live in one bedroom apartments with 20 adults, even if there might be cases of such. I try to give other ethnicitys the same benefit of the doubt.

 

[maelstrom]

There's always been talk in my town about a particular Asian restaurant (a more upscale place, not a take-out joint) serving cat meat instead of chicken. This particular restaurant has small shacks behind it where some of the staff used to live (cooks, busboys, etc) and the rumour was always that any feral cat that happened to make it into that area would end up as food in the restaurant.

The restaurant is under different management now and I don't think anyone has lived in the shacks behind it for many years. This rumour has been going around since the 1970s. I have no idea if there's any truth to it.

 

[clutter]

One of my long-ago favorites (when I lived in another state) used to hang the chickens in the kitchen window around back. No, I didn't worry it was something else!

Seriously, I'm sure I'd notice a difference in the textures. (The advantages of being a texture-sensitive family.)

 

[MM27]

Cat, its all cat

 

[Imzadi]

Maybe, I just don't believe in across the board generalizations. As a Mexican, I define my culture. Some things I have embraced and other things not so much. We dont all live in one bedroom apartments with 20 adults, even if there might be cases of such. I try to give other ethnicitys the same benefit of the doubt.

Yes, I find this thread particularly racist. I've also sat in Chinese restaurants and heard people making fun of the Chinese IN their own restaurants, like the meowing and stuff. How disrespectful can you get? To go into someone else's place and make fun of them. I often wonder if these same bigots sit in Italian, Mexican Indian or Thai restaurants and make the same kind of bigoted remarks. And if not, why is it okay to do that to the Chinese?

 

[emma'smom]

I've never worried about it in the U.S.---and besides, if it tastes fine--what's the difference really?

Many of our domestic animals are eaten in other countries---and we eat cow--sacred in some countries.

 

[Princess_Michelle]

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