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Nogbad_The_Bad 
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 Posted: October 10 2015 at 22:40 |
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The only problem with New Orleans was getting propositioned to go into a strip club at 10 in the morning when I was with my wife and her friend.
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Ian
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 22:17 |
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Dean
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 22:16 |
 Atavachron wrote:
Having grown up in SF, the bun, or "pork bow" as it's called on the westcoast, was a childhood favorite but became cloyingly sweet to me. Or maybe the quality just went south. The only city I know left that has truly good Chinese food is NYC.
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Yeah, some times they can be overly sweet. Chinatown in London's Soho produces some fine char sui street food.
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Dean
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 22:13 |
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Ah... noodles and salad. Yeah, that's Vietnamese not Thai.
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 22:09 |
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Having grown up in SF, the bun, or "pork bow" as it's called on the westcoast, was a childhood favorite but became cloyingly sweet to me. Or maybe the quality just went south. The only city I know left that has truly good Chinese food is NYC.
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Finnforest
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 22:09 |
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Dean
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 22:03 |
Finnforest wrote:
It was bun not stir fry....but maybe that's Vietnamese. this place does multi Asian cuisines. I love bun, no pun intended
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By 'bun' do you mean like char sui bao? Steamed bread rolls filled with barbecued meats?
Or do you mean dim sum?
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Finnforest
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:58 |
It was bun not stir fry....but maybe that's Vietnamese. this place does multi Asian cuisines. I love bun, no pun intended
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:54 |
Dean wrote:
I would have crawled across the desert for a steak and ale pie with boiled carrots and mashed potatoes |
The simple comforts of home. I think there was a time when many Americans ate just like that.
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Dean
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:52 |
Polymorphia wrote:
What other kind is there? 
It's bizarre that you could only find fried and grilled food, though of all the states, Texas would be the one. Near the coasts (including and especially the gulf coast), boiling is especially popular. Baked, sauteed, steamed, and roasted foods are very present as well. You're talking about the country that celebrates Thanksgiving, for which baked or roasted turkey, boiled mashed potatoes, and steamed corn and vegetables are traditional items. |
Do you have restaurants that serve roast diners 365 days a year?
I'm pleased to learn these alternative cooking methods exist in the USA and yep, Texas was not the best place to start looking, however I did have similar issues with the food in California (LA and SF). As I said if I were living in the USA permanently this wouldn't be a problem but when you are staying in a 3-star hotel and living out of a suitcase for three weeks solid then you can only eat in the restaurants in the locale where you're staying... and after two weeks of essentially eating fried/grilled/barbecued/stir-fried meals every day it all got a bit too much for my fay British constitution and I would have crawled across the desert for a steak and ale pie with boiled carrots and mashed potatoes (I don't like pasta so Italian is off the menu and I really don't like curry so that excludes Indian restaurants)
Finnforest wrote:
Well if you'd been here tonight with Heather and I, the Thai we had would have knocked your socks off....no fry involved. Last night I had a great beet salad with sauteed shrimp and tomorrow we may try a new Ethiopian place. The food in the TCs is pretty fcking awesome mate. 
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Thai is usually stir-fried then sauced-up coconut milk and sauté means quickly frying in hot fat, but I know what you mean.
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Atavachron wrote:
Never thought of it as an eating city but I suppose it is. N'awlins is where I'd like to take an eating tour, the whole south actually; Memphis, Atlanta, Dallas
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Oh N'awlins is a superb eating and drinking city. |
New Orleans...now you're talking. Having read Poppy Z Brite's Liquor series of novels set in the New Orleans restaurant scene that quickly went on my bucket list.
Edited by Dean - October 10 2015 at 21:55
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:31 |
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Ian
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Finnforest
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:24 |
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And there is this Indian place here that just slays me.....
Still your point remains valid. A lot of restaurants in the States are just crap.
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Finnforest
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:21 |
Dean wrote:
Finnforest wrote:
Dean, there is good food, you just have to know where to find it. But yes there is a lot of crap food too, no argument there..
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The challenge is not finding good food (until my last visit that was relatively easy), the challenge was finding food that wasn't fried or grilled. Admittedly I was in Texas when I threw down that challenge to my work colleagues and the best they could come up with was pizza. |
Well if you'd been here tonight with Heather and I, the Thai we had would have knocked your socks off....no fry involved. Last night I had a great beet salad with sauteed shrimp and tomorrow we may try a new Ethiopian place. The food in the TCs is pretty fcking awesome mate. 
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:20 |
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^ Oh it'll change, just not for a very, very long time. Amendments do happen, just not often. There is an aversion in the US to being too civilized, too obsequious. And to using words like 'obsequious'.
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Dean
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:14 |
TeleStrat wrote:
Guns, food and booze. That's interesting.The gun control controversy will go on in this country forever. There are too many things to consider. Demanding more guns laws is ridiculous since there are already hundreds (technically thousands) of gun laws on the books. None of these existing laws matter to criminals and gang bangers who don't care about laws. Putting new restrictions on law abiding gun owners does little or no good at all. |
If I have learnt one thing in my seven years on this forum it is never to get involved in gun-control arguments with an American. Have guns and no controls or have technically thousands of gun laws it makes no difference to me, I live 5,000 miles away. The issue is not of controls or lack thereof but of culture, as that is what differentiates the USA from the rest of the western world it terms of gun ownership and the scary gun-death and other gun-related crime statistics you have, and in light of reaction to recent events I don't think that will ever change.
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Polymorphia
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:12 |
Dean wrote:
Finnforest wrote:
Dean, there is good food, you just have to know where to find it. But yes there is a lot of crap food too, no argument there..
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The challenge is not finding good food (until my last visit that was relatively easy), the challenge was finding food that wasn't fried or grilled. Admittedly I was in Texas when I threw down that challenge to my work colleagues and the best they could come up with was pizza. |
What other kind is there?
It's bizarre that you could only find fried and grilled food, though of all the states, Texas would be the one. Near the coasts (including and especially the gulf coast), boiling is especially popular. Baked, sauteed, steamed, and roasted foods are very present as well. You're talking about the country that celebrates Thanksgiving, for which baked or roasted turkey, boiled mashed potatoes, and steamed corn and vegetables are traditional items.
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:08 |
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 21:05 |
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^ No you just don't live in Texas or Arizona.
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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infocat
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 20:49 |
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FWIW, I can't recall ever seeing anyone outside the police or military carrying a gun in public. Perhaps I live a sheltered life.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: October 10 2015 at 20:47 |
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Unsurprisingly there is lots of good seafood in Boston, plus we have a good Chinatown, a large Italian district, good German food, and lots of Irish bars. The city center can be walked across in 30 minutes and has that lovely higgledy piggedly street patterns from pre industry that you don't see in a lot of US cities.
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Ian
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