the Chinese have heard of deep-fried Snickers and are upping the ante

July 27, 2006

I bought food at a charmingly and aptly-named Chinese place in Flushing called “Four Entrees and Soup.”

For just $4.50, a server behind a cafeteria-style display gets you a takeout container of rice, and you select four entrees from the buffet, which she scoops onto the rice. I went for sesame chicken, some sauteed mushrooms, what looked like a curried white-meat chicken, and what looked like some interesting sliced vegetable.

The second-to-last was, in fact, some rather Chinese-tasting scrambled eggs, with tomatoes. (Look, I found you a recipe!)

That last item was, in fact, French fries in sauce. MSG-imbued Chinese French fries. Very likely double-fried.

There was also soup.

On a related note, I also got a pedicure in Flushing, involving a stocky, butch Asian woman giving me a full-on exfoliating leg-rub (she squeezed a lemon onto my legs!), and the best damn foot massage I’ve ever had (including from men trying to get into my pants).

The cost? $12! That’s like stealing.

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5 Responses to “the Chinese have heard of deep-fried Snickers and are upping the ante”

  1. zombiehellmonkey on July 28th, 2006 6:30 am

    If there’s anything that the Chinese love most, it’s frying things. Just before I die, I’d like to invest in a huge vat of oil, heat it up, roll myself in batter and just dive in.

  2. JenIsFamous on July 28th, 2006 5:37 pm

    Zombie,

    I think that defies the very nature of INVESTING.

    But it also reminds me of Ripley in the last Aliens movie.

    Jen

  3. zombiehellmonkey on July 29th, 2006 7:02 pm

    I don’t remember that scene in the movie; but I’m sure that the Chinese would love to eat deep fried aliens.

  4. Matt Penn on July 29th, 2006 11:34 pm

    FUN FACT:

    I read on a Snapple bottle cap (or maybe I was drinking several too many Long Island Iced Teas; I don’t recall) that the film starring Hugh Grant and Andie McDowell, that was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, was originally to have been called Four Entrees and a Soup!

  5. Stu on July 31st, 2006 7:40 am

    Jen,

    Same here in France - Chinese fried ‘everything’. If I left the country now, I’d probably be hospitalised and given a long course of post-MSG treatment.

    As far as legwaxing and your pants are concerned … we haven’t even been introduced …

    My best regards to you and Lord - tell him to get his a** down to the Farmer’s Market in Philly and stock up on lemons!

    All the best from Paris,

    Stuart

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