Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Max White]

I can confirm that Blargity is 100% incorrect. Could not be more wrong, it is just that our cookies are localised for specific taste. They tend to be a lot bigger, and coloured, and to make it better they include hats and cheap plastic toys. Also, to cut costs instead of being made of cookie, they are made of cardboard, so you don't eat them, you just have a friend help you break them.

[Blargityblarg]

Max, Christmas crackers have incredibly bad jokes in them, not Eastern Wisdom^TM.

[kaijyuu]

So it's like a mix between laffy taffy and fortune cookies?


Also I'm pretty sure our fortune cookies are 90% cardboard. The rest is sugar.

[Telgin]

Wish I could remember something I actually got out of one of these.  I also kind of wish they were more often fortunes than... platitudes?

Guess they should be called advice cookies instead?

Oh, wait, I did just think of one.  I used to be horrified of going to the dentist as a kid, and would get all kinds of worked up about it.  I remember once we ate a Chinese restaurant before going to the dentist, and my fortune cookie said, "A great burden has been lifted from your shoulders."  I was always worried I'd have a cavity or two, which meant needles.  No cavities that time!

[RedKing]

LOL...I read Itnetlolor's comment as two seperate sentences, so the second one was just:

Chinese food. It's bizarre, but awesome.

Which is both true and fortune cookie-worthy.

[Siquo]

I got one with a printing error once. It just said "Duck" on it.

Now that one is funny. Especially if you did duck and some waiter trips, and flying cutlery barely misses you or something.

[Lord Dullard]

LOL...I read Itnetlolor's comment as two seperate sentences, so the second one was just:

Chinese food. It's bizarre, but awesome.

Which is both true and fortune cookie-worthy.

Hm, the Chinese food they sell in Americanized restaurants is pretty tame, TBH.

My girlfriend is Chinese (more specifically Taiwanese, but the latter consider themselves the former) and some of the homecooked stuff I've had over the last couple of years is really crazy in comparison.

Although more restaurants are starting to crop up now that actually cater to people with more legitimate Chinese tastes. We've got a good one in the university town I live in, probably because a good portion of the population here are Chinese exchange students. The first time I tried congee (it's pretty much rice porridge) with 'hundred year eggs' in it, I was kinda grossed out. I actually like it now, though. Although I still won't do phoenix claws (i.e., deep fried chicken's feet).

[Nadaka]

"We all have extraordinary code within us, waiting to be released." yea...

[RedKing]

I wasn't talking about Americanized Chinese.

Hundred-year-egg is just straight-up nasty.
Chicken feet aren't bad, I've just never quite understood the attraction. It's like eating a really skimpy wing--lots of gnawing and sucking at the bones to get those few scraps of meat.

Same goes for chicken head soup.

Spoiler: Exactly what it says on the label. (click to show/hide)

It tastes great, if you can ignore the beaks and whatnot floating around in there.

Then there are things like tripe and pork intestine that I wouldn't care for on their own, but will happily eat in a hotpot.

Then there's all those regional delicacies like:
--roasted scorpion (Beijing)
--'stinky' tofu (Fujian and Taiwan, and dear merciful gods that stuff can clear a city block...I don't fathom how anyone can bring it close enough to their faces to eat without passing out)
--civet "cat" (mostly a Gunagzhou thing...tastes like SARS!)
--dog paws (in Manchuria, though mostly for ex-pat Koreans. The Manchu themselves hold dog meat as taboo.)

Then there's squirrelfish, which is both bizarre and awesome:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ditto snake wine (although primarily a Vietnamese thing, I had some in Hangzhou)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Lord Dullard]

Ah, yeah, I haven't ever seen snake wine sold anywhere in the US, although I know some Viet people who have tried it.

I actually like hundred year egg, as long as it's in congee or something and I don't have to spend too much time looking at it. 

Chinese hot pot is amazing. Fish balls, taro, cabbage, white radish, some beef and pork, mushrooms, some sauces to spice it up... there's only one place around here that serves real hot pot, though. Though there are a ton of places that do the Korean version, which is nearly as good, and also a spot nearby that does shabu shabu...

[nenjin]

I really, really want to do Dim Sum in my life. I'm a picky eater, but I'd totally go in there and grab stuff...and only ask later what it is.

Because man, watching Food Network when they're traveling and getting Dim Sum...looks amazing. And I've always dug alternative dining, like tappas.

[RedKing]

I love dim sum, except that it's (like most Americanized Chinese) typically Cantonese fare. Which I'm meh about. My preference is for Hunan and Sichuanese food. Though not northwest Sichuan, which is essentially an extension of Tibet. And Tibetan food, in my admittedly-limited experience, is like dwarven food:

This dish is made of finely minced yak meat, yak butter, prepared yak shortbreads, and yak blood wrapped in yak skin and dipped in yak broth.

[rarborman]

I got one that said, "That project will be quite fun." and "Your cheerful nature brings happyness." very vauge.

[Knight of Fools]

It clears it up a little if you add "in bed" to the ending.

[JoshuaFH]

It clears it up a little if you add "in bed" to the ending.

I prefer "except in bed"