The asian food here is… unfortunate. I’m sorry if I sound pretentious, but I think that I know a fair bit more than most about it. Number one on the list of Asian foods: rice. The dining courts (buffets, remember) serve up big pans of long-grain, meaning that 9 times out of 10, it’s been microwaved or stir-fried. Hence, it has no “cling”, no stickiness that makes eating it with chopsticks possible. (They provide no chopsticks.) It’s simply too dry meaning that they don’t use rice steamers. Understandable, yet annoying.<\/p>\n
Second on the list of Asian staple foods: Sweet and sour chicken. 4 times out of 5, it was way too salty. The only time it wasn’t too salty was at Ford dining court which is the only dining court where I saw a Chinese lady cooking it.<\/p>\n
Last of all, there’s a restaurant in the Union called Lemongrass, which claims to serve Southeast Asian cuisine, like Thai and stuff. I thought it had potential as an approximation of the food back home until I actually received my food (from a white guy incidentally). My curry chicken was cold, bland, limp and had potato in it. POTATO! You don’t have potato in Asian cuisine. That’s like having a matzo ball floating next to a pork meatball. Unless you’re Ming Tsai, this is one thing you just do not do<\/u>. It’s taboo. Like cooking and serving childhood pets after telling them that their pet duck flew away without saying goodbye.<\/p>\n
I miss Plucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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