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I've lived in California for almost ten years, had many a drunk burrito and missed kebabs every time :(
by malermeister 4y ago
I've lived in California for almost ten years, had many a drunk burrito and missed kebabs every time :(
- AlbertCory 4y agoYeah, kebabs really aren't a Thing here, for the most part. Nor is poutine, or "curry." You can find all of those, but they're not on every corner. What's drunk food in China, I wonder. Anyone?
- t-3 4y agoDepends on where you're at - in Metro Detroit you can usually find shawarma, Indian, Pakistani, or Thai curry, pizza, taquerias, and a Coney Island within a mile of any random place, and poutine is just a drive across the bridge.
- yw3410 4y agoI have fond memories at midnight barbeques. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaokao https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaokao
- rippercushions 4y agoI'd vote for roadside BBQ mystery meat on a stick (烧烤 shaokao), but street food in China is quite regional. For me, a Shandong-style steamed big bao (savoury, not sweet dough) stuffed with all the things hits the spot.
- hadlock 4y agoGood mexican food is hard to come by, particularly texmex, and you can't find any texas style queso at all. People in the bay area have never heard of the stuff, even though it's on the menu at even non-mexican resturaunts and pubs in texas. I've seen it on the menu in seattle, idaho, north carolina, but the bay area is an absolute queso desert for some odd reason.
- staticautomatic 4y agoPerhaps because everyone here thinks, as I do, “who needs Tex Mex when you have real Mexican food?”
- AlbertCory 4y agoeasy there. I'm not Texan and never even spent much time there. But texmex is its own thing. If you look up "queso recipe" it often begins "take a pound of Velveeta."
- safety1st 4y agoGo easy on your parent, they're just parroting the 2005 version of Mexican food snobbery
- LBJsPNS 4y agoAnd therein lies the problem...
- staticautomatic 4y agoYeah and I get that, but I just don’t think TexMex is good, and I grew up in a part of the south where people fully believed it was real Mexican food.
- t-3 4y agoAmericanized Mexican food should be distinguished from formerly-Mexican food. The southwest has it's own food traditions which are often similar, but distinct, from contemporary Mexico-Mexican food. Dismissing those traditions as "TexMex", like they were made up by Anglos is both offensive and inaccurate.
- vrc 4y agoSonoran hot dogs my dude!
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- zhengyi13 4y agoIn Beijing, in '96, it was Weiwuerzu (Uighur) rouchuanr. Cheap-ass fatty lamb on sticks, fast grilled over charcoal. Seasoned w/ chilli, cumin, and salt I think. Buy 'em by the fistfull.