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Skriven 2014-10-29 19:00:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Re: Chinese food
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 10-27-14  16:00 <=-

 DD>> that the minions of China Star figured that associating with NYC (and
 DD>> implying Manhattan) was good marketing - in the vein that many Chinese
 DD>> joints are self-called "Supreme" or "Superior" or "Number One" or ever
 DD>> "Best".
 NB>> Sometimes I wonder if they are chains, or chain affiliates... but I
 NB>> think it's more that they get their basics from one central outlet...
 NB>> the pictures over the counter all seem to be the same ones... ;)  We've
 NB>> got at least one China Star... and lots of Number 1 Best, or some
 NB>> variant thereon.  I've not tried all of them, just a few...  ;)

 DD> There is a lot of commonality of naming without direct affiliation I
 DD> suspect. 

Could be...  But sometimes one just wonders...

 DD> OTOH, I am pretty sure that there are just a few Chinese
 DD> Restaurant Supply places that supply most of the sauces, meats, veg,
 DD> etc. to small Chinese restaurants and/or buffets. Say, one that handles
 DD> anything on the Eastern seaboard, another that handles anything west of
 DD> Pennsylvania to the Rockies and a third that takes care of anything
 DD> west of the continental divide. 

Again, could be...  Certainly the pictures that appear on the wall over
the counter illustrating the available dishes seem to all be from the
same supplier...  :)  Even for the few places where one might think that
perhaps the sauces/meats/vegs etc were all bought or made somewhat
locally...  But the fortune cookies seem to come from just a few
suppliers, whether at these little places or at the Asian stores... ;)

 DD>>> Their food is decent to pretty good and their pricing is less than one
 DD>>> would expect. I will sometimes go there for their "House Special Soup"
 DD>>> if wanting something to eat and not wanting a full meal. It's
 DD>>> reasonably filling and very tasty ... even though they advert "NO MSG".
 NB>>> Sometimes the hole in the wall places put their money into the food
 NB>>> rather than the atmosphere..  :)
 DD>> Could be. There is another, similar place in another strip mall called
 DD>> "Hunan Express" which adverted a "lunchtime buffet". So, I wandered in
 DD>> one day - the place was dingy, the "buffet" was stocked with rice, a
 DD>> couple nearly empty pans of something in a brown sauce, and little
 DD>> else. I didn't linger.   Bv)=
 NB>> Now that might be a chain of sorts...  I've seen a couple of places
 NB>> named that, in shopping malls and airports...  with similarly
 NB>> unappetizing offerings...

 DD> Surely not. Must just be a negative serendipity.

Maybe...  If one had scads of time on ones hands, it could be an
interesting project, to see if there were any connection other than
chance and suppliers...  :)

ttyl           neb

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