What did you eat last night for dinner?

[impolyt_one]

willy's picture dump is burgers. sandwiches, and noodles and stuff - but it does illustrate how things are IMO - a) the west coast will soon be all over that inner-Chinese/Mongolian/Xinjiang lamb and handmade noodle thing that Xi'an made popular, possibly with some LA twists (I know how to make a milli milli off this alone, ask me) and b) NYC by way of America's most exciting, unique foods are in the sub $20, even $10 category any day of the week. Americans can put together a nice tasting sandwich from the time they're like 4, they just don't know how to get along with each other very well ever.

 

[Rambo]

Surprisingly, no. The chinese restaurants are really no better/authentic than a PF Changs. The places that are usually considered "authentic" really just serve the same old **** that every other Chinese restaurant does, because thats what the jews go there to eat.
K
Their food's really not that bad

Have you been to the hatian place in south beach?

Its the only place I have fond memories of eating dinner from when I was there last spring (although most of the other meals were consumed closer to boca...)

You're going to need to narrow it down for me

 

[Piobaire]



I have never been to a PF Changs.

Every once in a while I am subjected to one for lunch. There is always a ******* kid using their huge ass plastic chop sticks to pretend he/she is a drummer. I just want to knock them half way across the room by the end of my meal.

 

[indesertum]

geez i'm sorry ok? all the old geezer talk at the table bores me

 

[impolyt_one]

I'd use the chopsticks to unfurl my brain through my nose like an Egyptian if I ever found myself eating at P.F. Chang's. I don't mind a nice hot suan la tang though.

 

[erictheobscure]

I think P. F. Chang's was the first restaurant where I ordered an alcoholic drink. It was a Midori sour.



(I was just a teenager!)

 

[itsstillmatt]



willy's picture dump is burgers. sandwiches, and noodles and stuff - but it does illustrate how things are IMO - a) the west coast will soon be all over that inner-Chinese/Mongolian/Xinjiang lamb and handmade noodle thing that Xi'an made popular, possibly with some LA twists (I know how to make a milli milli off this alone, ask me) and b) NYC by way of America's most exciting, unique foods are in the sub $20, even $10 category any day of the week. Americans can put together a nice tasting sandwich from the time they're like 4, they just don't know how to get along with each other very well ever.

Dude, all that **** has been in NoCal since we brought them over to build the railroad and started dropping them in the bay. Not Japanese, as much, so less ramen obsession, but basically anything Chinese you could ever imagine.

 

[kwilkinson]



willy's picture dump is burgers. sandwiches, and noodles and stuff - but it does illustrate how things are IMO - a) the west coast will soon be all over that inner-Chinese/Mongolian/Xinjiang lamb and handmade noodle thing that Xi'an made popular, possibly with some LA twists (I know how to make a milli milli off this alone, ask me) and b) NYC by way of America's most exciting, unique foods are in the sub $20, even $10 category any day of the week. Americans can put together a nice tasting sandwich from the time they're like 4, they just don't know how to get along with each other very well ever.

How long until we take the American dining scene by storm?

 

[Manton]

the mongolian beef at pf chang's is quite ok, almost commendable, but all the noodle dishes are for ****.

I have a very funny PF chang story.

 

[otc]



You're going to need to narrow it down for me

I didn't think there were very many hatian restaurants in the world

I think it was called tap tap hatian

 

[indesertum]



the mongolian beef at pf chang's is quite ok, almost commendable, but all the noodle dishes are for ****.
I have a very funny PF chang story.

you can't leave it at i have a very funny pf chang story

 

[TC (Houston)]

I did actually eat dinner at PF Changs last night though

I ate there once, but I had to quit after one bite. Seriously.

Been there once, and it is the only restaurant that I refuse to dine at under any circumstances.

 

[TC (Houston)]

the mongolian beef at pf chang's is quite ok, almost commendable, but all the noodle dishes are for ****.
I have a very funny PF chang story.

you can't leave it at i have a very funny pf chang story

I got a funny one, it's the closest restaurant to my new house and "proximity to pf changs" actually made the "cons" list when we were finally deciding which house to buy.

 

[Manton]

OK, well, this would have been 1995.

I was driving my grad school advisor out to LAX. We had on KFI, Bill Handel. He was talking about Clarence Thomas. Thomas is someone connected to some of the people I was around at that time so a lot of us knew him. Handel was being very dismissive.

Suddenly he takes a call from "XXXX in Claremont." Both my advisor and I are like "It's XXXX!!!" and sure enough it was, a fellow student of mine (female). She berates Handel for being dismissive. Handel shoots back that the ABA says Thomas is an idiot. They go back and forth yelling at each other. It ends when he calles her a "presumptuous idiot" and hangs up on her.

Fast forward to the evening. A bunch of us are invited to an event in Newport Beach at the home of Donald Bren. William Simon, former Treasury Secretary, is the guest of honor. We are all runts, poor grad students, but dressed up and we basically graze the hors d' oeuvres and drink. Suddenly, I recognize Bill Handel. He's actually there! And so is XXXX, needless to say.

So, her boyfriend goes right up to Handel and says, "Hey Bill, you called my girlfriend a 'presumptuos idiot' on the radio today."

And Handel says, "Probably true, I call a lot of people that. Who's your GF?"

"She's right here."

They are introduced. They resume the argument. The event winds down. Handel says, "What are you all doing now?"

We say, "Gonna get some grub."

He says, "Cool, follow me."

He led us to PF Chang's in Fashion Island, ordered everything on the menu (or so it seemed; there were eight of us) and round after round of drinks and paid the entire bill.

So when I get home that night there is a show on called "Mr. KFI." Basically a pure call-in show with no theme, topics, agenda or anything. I call and tell the story. The host is tickled. I also say that Handel spilled a lot of dirt about various KFI hosts (above all about Dr. Laura) but that I don't want to give details on the air. So he holds me through a commercial break during which I tell him the more salacious stuff, and he sighs and says "Yeah, that's all accurate."

PF Chang's is a bit player in this story, I realize.

 

[Rambo]

You're going to need to narrow it down for me

I didn't think there were very many hatian restaurants in the world

I think it was called tap tap hatian

Seriously? With all the Hatian's down here you didn't think there'd be more than one restaurant?

No, never been to Tap Tap but I'll look it up. Thanks for the rec.

the mongolian beef at pf chang's is quite ok, almost commendable, but all the noodle dishes are for ****.
I have a very funny PF chang story.

you can't leave it at i have a very funny pf chang story

I got a funny one, it's the closest restaurant to my new house and "proximity to pf changs" actually made the "cons" list when we were finally deciding which house to buy.

Wow, you guys crack me up.