Tuesday, October 27, 2009

asian invasion

I live in a community outside Little Rock called East End. The community has several convenience stores ,2 hardware stores , a sonic, Harvest Food Grocery Store and now a Chinese food restaurant. We ate and this establishment and like most it was a buffet and like most it just wasn't the Chinese food I remember eating as a kid.

I remember it was a treat to go eat Chinese food. The restaurants were always ran by REAL Chinese people not,Thais,Vietnamese nor other Asians. Never a buffet but fresh dishes that we all shared. Sharing Chinese food was an integral part of the experience along with hot oolong tea. Now you go to a so called Chinese food restaurant all you get is all you can eat semi par food.

Now, many of the new Chinese food establishments are not being managed by Chinese at all but other Asian people. The authenticity of food from China has been watered down. The question is where do all these Asians come from and how do they do it. I feel like Estelle Costanza who received advice based on Confucius from What she perceived to be a Chinese woman named Donna Chang only to find out it was just some girl from Long Island.I feel duped ! Earl Haffel had a deal with Kramer to have Cubans hand wrap cigars for them in their new business venture only to realize he was getting Dominicans. I don't want a Chinese egg-roll with a Vietnamese wrapper.

We are being invaded by phony so called Chinese food restaurants with phony Chinese people and you've been warned.

2 comments:

  1. Man before the references to Costanza and Krammer I was thinking your blog reminded me of Seinfeld. haha

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  2. And another thing... when I was a kid you didn't have to ask for chop sticks! Now you have to request them. Whats up with that?

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