Topic: Syntax, when the restaurant shows you the potato, how do you know it's the same potato they cook?
Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago #83,182
What if they just have an ideal potato that they show everybody? And they go back and cook with the mediocre potatoes.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 2 minutes later[^] [v] #958,023
Are there really places where they show you the food before it's cooked?
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #958,024
@previous (B)
This is one of the hotly debated issues on minichan. You have no idea what you have just done.
This is one of the hotly debated issues on minichan. You have no idea what you have just done.
Syntax joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 9 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #958,027
If that question were 2B put in court of law? I could only testify to view of my potato close up n personal and view of it being walked back to the slicer n sliced. From there it does come 1/2 way from the close up slicer to the basket, where it's lowered in2 the Bubbling Hot Oil. So unless someone Else orders a Extra Well Done Potato's with 50% Salt I am assured my Potato ended up as MY Exazt order.
It wood be up to Judge or Jury as to if such is enough evidence.
Oh and the last time which was about 5 weeks ago when I placed my order - The person who fries the potatoes over heard my order and ASKED ME How Extra well done I wanted - I was taken by surprise and had no answer ready to give him so I said - The way you usually do such an order. I mean I really want them to hold up from 1st to last potato Crispy but NOT Burnt to a Crisp if you git my drift.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #958,028
Stale schtick Matt. Come up with something else.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 7 years ago, 44 seconds later, 14 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #958,029
Syntax replied with this 7 years ago, 7 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #958,035
@958,023 (B)> Are there really places where they show you the food before it's cooked?
Indeed for sure - How about the many that let you ladle up your own raw ingredients one by one from Veggies to Meats n Seafoods and hand over to the Cook who grills up for you - Look up "What is Teppanyaki"
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Syntax double-posted this 7 years ago, 28 seconds later, 22 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #958,036
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 4 minutes later, 27 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #958,039
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 2 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #958,040
@958,036 (Syntax)
@previous (F)
lol those guys are almost worse than the Turkish ice cream vendors who wont give you your ice cream. There comes a point where the food is clearly fully cooked but they fucking play with it for like 10 extra minutes because they haven't done the entire routine yet. Infuriating!
@previous (F)
lol those guys are almost worse than the Turkish ice cream vendors who wont give you your ice cream. There comes a point where the food is clearly fully cooked but they fucking play with it for like 10 extra minutes because they haven't done the entire routine yet. Infuriating!
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Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 4 minutes later, 34 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #958,046
Restaurants hate customers with particular, specific, picky, substitutes orders.
Syntax replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 37 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #958,048
@958,039 (F)@958,040 (G)
Been many a years and years since I last tried Benihama's - Waz a good show re Knives tossed n such.
> play with it for like 10 extra minutes because they haven't done the entire routine yet. Infuriating!
Places I have been to recently - There is a line so that the Teppanyaki is very quickly cooked and there is ZERO Play by the cook - The real trick is finding what sauces YOU THINK will be the ideal mix.
For those who have not experienced this unique form of cooking - Sure you could do it at home but it is more fun with more choices when out -
Anonymous B replied with this 7 years ago, 52 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #958,057
@958,035 (Syntax)
Yeah but they dont cook the food. And toasting doesn't count as coming in this case because that's really arbitrary
Yeah but they dont cook the food. And toasting doesn't count as coming in this case because that's really arbitrary
Syntax replied with this 7 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #958,059
@previous (B)
> Yeah but they dont cook the food.
I think you are Confucius. Hot Pot which is terrific is where you have a bunch of raw stuff on your table and YOU do the cooking item by item and the very end is the very best as a soup. Soup being the last course your create - Problem is room in tummy for the very end.
Teppanyaki You make the raw choices and the Cook does the Cooking.
Unless of course if you were to do this at home.
> Yeah but they dont cook the food.
I think you are Confucius. Hot Pot which is terrific is where you have a bunch of raw stuff on your table and YOU do the cooking item by item and the very end is the very best as a soup. Soup being the last course your create - Problem is room in tummy for the very end.
Teppanyaki You make the raw choices and the Cook does the Cooking.
Unless of course if you were to do this at home.
Anonymous B replied with this 7 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #958,061
@previous (Syntax)
Looked like subway on my screen, my bad.
But still, that's a weird comparison though, I mean, an average restaurant, where you make an order, and cooks in a kitchen make the food, and then people bring it out to you. You dont usually choose the specific food you eat excluding seafoods and specific cuts of meat sometimes.
Looked like subway on my screen, my bad.
But still, that's a weird comparison though, I mean, an average restaurant, where you make an order, and cooks in a kitchen make the food, and then people bring it out to you. You dont usually choose the specific food you eat excluding seafoods and specific cuts of meat sometimes.
Syntax replied with this 7 years ago, 12 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #958,065
@previous (B)
OK - It's been a bunch of years but I have been to high end places where they wood bring out the Steak Raw to show you b4 it gets cooked.
And currently there are many Asian usually Chinese places with tanks of live Shrimp Crabs and Lobsters where YOU pick out the critter and they cook it for you. Of course this works in the restaurant's favor, because people usually chose a larger item and price per pound is what you end up paying.
OK - It's been a bunch of years but I have been to high end places where they wood bring out the Steak Raw to show you b4 it gets cooked.
And currently there are many Asian usually Chinese places with tanks of live Shrimp Crabs and Lobsters where YOU pick out the critter and they cook it for you. Of course this works in the restaurant's favor, because people usually chose a larger item and price per pound is what you end up paying.
Anonymous H replied with this 7 years ago, 59 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #958,067
Anonymous B replied with this 7 years ago, 7 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #958,070
@958,065 (Syntax)
Like I said, besides seafood
And steak places like that is it a normal practice to see the food before you eat it?
Like I said, besides seafood
And steak places like that is it a normal practice to see the food before you eat it?
Syntax replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #958,071
@958,067 (H)
Hummmmm - I have over the years sent back Eggs over or under cooked. Not very often when I order Medium Rare on the Rare side does not end up Perrrrfect and it's been decades since I sent one back.
Once rubbery Lobster cooked to beyond necessary and given the cost and need to please me and date it did go back and damn if the cook tried what I sent back and came out with apology.
I do not really see picky eaters all that Often BUT BUT
Once at a very high end event that wood draw a mass of flames IF I were to detail it as I have in past. Everyone dressed in Tux and gals in their very best and this was in WDC - When the raw oysters were served and everyone oooohed and awed and brought them up for Slurping - A really super cute gal almost directly across from me took hers in her mouth and promptly SPIT IT OUT Directly across the table into the guy or gal across from her - So many years so - Anyway it made for a terrific comedy moment and we all made her feel more better.
Many years later a outstanding gal I was dancing with told me she hated raw oysters and my reaction was to say I bet you don't er "Swallow and Spit" and she smiled and said Yep.
Hummmmm - I have over the years sent back Eggs over or under cooked. Not very often when I order Medium Rare on the Rare side does not end up Perrrrfect and it's been decades since I sent one back.
Once rubbery Lobster cooked to beyond necessary and given the cost and need to please me and date it did go back and damn if the cook tried what I sent back and came out with apology.
I do not really see picky eaters all that Often BUT BUT
Once at a very high end event that wood draw a mass of flames IF I were to detail it as I have in past. Everyone dressed in Tux and gals in their very best and this was in WDC - When the raw oysters were served and everyone oooohed and awed and brought them up for Slurping - A really super cute gal almost directly across from me took hers in her mouth and promptly SPIT IT OUT Directly across the table into the guy or gal across from her - So many years so - Anyway it made for a terrific comedy moment and we all made her feel more better.
Many years later a outstanding gal I was dancing with told me she hated raw oysters and my reaction was to say I bet you don't er "Swallow and Spit" and she smiled and said Yep.
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 41 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #958,096
I wonder how much spit, piss and boogers Syntax has eaten from being a pain in the ass in restaurants? This doesn't happen so much now days with all the cams around but back in the day before them, many of pissed off cooks and waiters got mental satisfaction from bothersome customers by using the bodily mucus method of spiking the food.