[Dining Review]

[BookZombie]

Originally Posted by Sistinas666

Me too!:D Beer and slabs of beef= heaven!

Movie night at my house, homemade food, quite often something like beef or a roast, with baked potato and vegetables. Horror movies on the TV, and me with orange juice and my hubby with a glass of good whiskey, those are the times life is great to live. :D

[ferretchucker]

Originally Posted by crabapple

It's funny...a funny thing about that steak sauce stuff. I like it okay, but not with steak! I find the stuff tastes dreadful on steak, ends up just sort of masking the flavor with its weirdness. But on other things, potatoes and veggies and whatnot, I think it is lovely.

It goes superbly with a cheese toasty.


Interesting dining experience - Went to a pub yesterday that sold pork scratchings by the "half pint" in, well...half pint glasses. Very odd.

[BookZombie]

Ok so my hubby, me and my hubby's best friend where going out for pizza. We ordered a custom pizza with one half being a standard number from the menu, the the other half being chicken and scampi. I do not know how many times we tried to explain this to the obviously mentally challenged girl taking our order. Half in half custom pizza, one side nr 35 the other side chicken and scampi, that should not be to hard to get.

Eventually I pulled out a pen and paper and drew a pizza, divided it by a line and wrote this side chicken and scampi and this side nr 35, still the woman did not get it. She asked things like: so you want scampi all over the pizza? Do you want two pizzas, do you want nr 35 with scampi? We could not get her to understand what we where trying to order so we ended up having to order a nr 35 and not a custom, which off course lost them money as the customs are more expensive. I think that girl must have been the most stupid person I have ever met, either that or she was high and her mind where somewhere else.

[Diabolical]

Originally Posted by ferretchucker

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I guess the chips are a bit different because they're a lot chunkier than fries. They tend to be a lot softer because they have more potato and less of a coating.
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do you think of mcdonalds fires when you think of fires? they are many different types of fries. the ones you pictured would be considered steak fries.

[crabapple]

BZ, your pizza ordering story scares me. Once I went out to hang with some buddies in a desert city north of here, and everyone in the town was stupid, as if they had been bored by their environment and could no longer think. Maybe it was the bright sun reflecting off all the dirt. Hard to say.

You would go to the local hamburger place and ask for a meal and the person would stand there for a long time and say "Uhhhhhh, uhhhhhhh......what is it you want again?" or something similar.

[BookZombie]

I have s story which is almost as bad though it did not happen in a restaurant. My best friend is a co owner of a Internet cafe, now he had hired my hubby to do some maintenance on their servers. One day I dropped by to give a message to my hubby and I asked the vacant eyed girl in behind the counter if my hubby where there. She chewed her gum and said she did not know who that was. So I asked her about the man who had been hired to fix the servers, she only looked at me with a deer cough in the headlight sort of way. Then I asked her if my best friend was in, I asked for him by name, she said she did not know who that was. I said, the owner of this place, your boss is he in. The girl look at me confused and said. "I do not know, but you can go down and check." And with that she sent me down into the server room where the cafe's most expensive equipment was without knowing who I was or without checking on me in any way, but then as she did not even know her own boss's name I do not know what I could expect.

[ferretchucker]

Originally Posted by Diabolical

do you think of mcdonalds fires when you think of fires? they are many different types of fries. the ones you pictured would be considered steak fries.

Not necessarily McDonalds. I tend to think of chips as the thick, softer ones and fries as a crispier affair. That's how it tends to be viewed in England.

[crabapple]

At the pub where I got the fish the other day--their chips were skinny, like McDonald's fries, really, but were soft and also well browned. I was expecting a thicker cut on these, but it was tasty all the same. I splashed a lot of vinegar on them!

There was a dish or tartar sauce that came with the plate, and that was nice to dip both the fish and the chips into.

[cheebacheeba]

I prefer chips personally, best when dipped in bleeding flesh. Maybe.
Try it.
I don't actually dine out a lot...when I do, it tends to be "cheap" food, but better food than your standard takeaway fare.
I'll hit up a "food court" underground in our chinatown that looks completely dodgy, but has some of the best assorted asian food along with "street" food there...totally crowded but it works.
I love hitting up a Frasian (common term here for asian operated french bakery) for a vietnamese chicken or pork roll.
Fish and chips joints, pubs occasionally...far superior, nicer, and healthier than most takeaway places.
I also really like Korean food, anywhere I can try a dukbokki that I haven't samples yet I'll try that.
I very much love "whole foods" kind of like what someone mentioned as a Carvy, I'll take that where I can find it, German style is the bomb.
I quite like Indian, and while it's a blast to make from scratch going out for some is the bomb. There's actually an Indian operated burger joint near me, they make the biggest, freshest, saladi-est grilled chicken burgers, and an assortment of Indian dishes - They do a better butter chicken (murgh makhani) than all the local indian places combined.
A lot of Indian food here is North Indian though, South indian I'd get more if I could...love me a masala dosai set.
What else. The occasional traditional shawarma/donner kebab at a GOOD kebab place, I know one in Sydney that's older than me so yeah I'll hit that up.
It's really hard to just say...I go to a lot of places, and I'm constantly looking to try new things and have no intention of stopping, though these are some of the more frequented selections.

[ferretchucker]

Wow, you do have an assorted palette! :eek: I've never actually had a full kebab - I have a strong dislike of Onions and whilst I know I can ask for it without, I prefer to just get Kebab meat with fries. As for Indian food - I genuinely want to move out there just so I can experience it.

There's a pretty decent place just 20 minutes or so away from me that literally just sells Bangers and Mash, however they have about 30 types of each, plus a selection of gravies, and you just select the mixture that most appeals to you. It's a surreal experience because literally everything there is leopard print. I guess the joint itself is a bit tacky but the food is decent.