/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9465944
>go to chinese restaurant
>forget where I am because it looks fucking identical to the last dozen china restaurants I've been to down to the chinese zodiac animal menus, takeout boxes and dirty fishtanks
Do they all buy from the same supplier or something?

>>9465944
>go to an American restaurant
>French fries on the menu
???

>>9465944
>restaurant has bloomin onion on the menu
>not even an australian restaurant

>>9465959
>forget where I am because it looks fucking identical to the last dozen china restaurants I've been to down to the chinese zodiac animal menus, takeout boxes and dirty fishtanks
unironically yes, there are large resellers that specialize in chinese restaurant style interiors, just like how 99% of chinese restaurants order their shitty premade foods from the same company which is why every chinese place tastes almost exactly the same.

>>9465944
What if one of the Chinese cooks is a mongoloid? Would that make it count?

>go to an american restaurant
>rocky mountain oysters on the menu

>>9465959
>Do they all buy from the same supplier or something?
yes

>>9465970
most chinese places around me taste different. seems little of the food is preprepared. maybe some of the sauces. i think omst of supplies are just the boxes, bags, etc. most places still cook from scratch more so than standard restaruant.

i've even seen the chinks in the back working on making dumplings sometimes

>"mongolian"
>random shit stir fried in corn syrup
#justflyoverthings

>>9466674
I've worked in both, it's probable about even.
The big factor is Clapistani confirmation bias that goes
>bottle of Heinz
>this is quality this is what I want lol Hunt's poorfags btfo tomato confit hipsters btfo
>bottle of LKK
>lazy chinks just pour the flavor from the bottle, same shit everywhere

>>9465970

The chinese immigrant community trains newcomers in restaurateurship. The recipes are all similar for this reason, but most chinese food is made from scratch.

>>9465944
Probably means calamari in Mongolian style spices
>>9466442
Kek

>>9466699
Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily call it the ~whole community~ standardizing but there's a definite "welcome over, here's how to cook American chow" factor. For cheap takeout in the Northeast, even as something as basic as fried rice is a weird Chinese-Japanese fusion rather than Chinese-style and needs to be relearned.

>>9466699
of course

>>9465944
>>9465944
>Go to pizza place
>Hawaiian pizza
>Has ham, cheese and pienapple on it
Where do they even come up with this?