/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Pho.

Chicken noodle soup without all the pesky delicious wondrous taste.

Protip: if you have to dump hot sauce on something to receive taste, it sucks.

>>4345385

>ethiopians
>food

Durian.

have you ever had ethopian food?
neither have they

>go to California
>everyone masturbates publicly to in-n-out burgers
>buy one
>grease
>burger
>oversauced

Way to have base bottom standards everyone.

French food

Hilariously overpriced, tiny portions, great sauces, sparse ingredients, self righteousness permeates everything

> Here in cincy

I lived in your area for 25yrs and recently transplanted to east coast/melting pot sort of area, allegedly know for a wide variety of ethnic food.

If there is one fact that was made abundantly clear to me, the Indian food here is shit. It really is trash.

Even the worst indian food I had in s/w Ohio was better than the best around here. Savor that stuff, and god help you if you ever move from the area. Waste no more $ on desert soul food. What you describe sounds like every eastern/asian meal I've had around here, and its not from "Americanization", its just pure, apathetic "don't give a fuckedness".

>>4345400
In the sense that it wasn't good or that it wasn't as pungent as people say?

Seconded on the French food. Not even sure its the food itself, but when you go to a french restauant you kind of expect a certain experience. Be careful with that. Green text would follow up my greater-than key is worn out from so muc buttrage lately.

Went to a French place in Philly after a game. Looked like a regular old tavern-type place (narrow row-house style brick building where they keep the lighting low to cut down on renovation expenses) so I expected the standard $20, which would normally be $15 for burgers/fries, but hey, its french, what do you expect.

Waitress claims they are known for their steak, so I order one. Everyone else gets a variety of entrees.

Never order a steak at a French place. It was similar to a diner T-bone. Except after it was frenched it was just plain weird. Sides were bland, desert was quite similar to anything you could get at a mass-market grocery store.

Bill comes, there's 7 of us, guy sitting next to me grabs it and graciously offers to pay. Boy I bet he regretted that. $375 and some change, and of course %18 gratuity. To this day I can't see how anyone kept a straight face about that. Normally you get a propper razzing for that, but we all felt bad and its never been discussed since then.

In this thread: people who live in Methville, WV and are disappointed when their local shitty train wreck of an "ethnic" restaurant turns out to be just as shitty as they ought to have expected.

>>4345491
And where do you live oh wordly cosmopolitan anon?

Inb4 bumfuck California

>>4345396
>expecting anything other than slightly asian comfort soup

Chicken pho is shit anyways. Beef pho is frakkin delicious.

>>4345402
I feel the same about Five Guys. There was literally nothing special about their burgers.

In-n-out is also a consistent disappointment. Best bet is one of the many burger joints my grandpa and I frequent

A new restaurant opening in my town selling turkish kebabs. The place had been sitting empty for about 6 months with a coming soon sign on it. I went there with a friend, and it was a bizarre experience.

First off, it was nearly completely empty at lunch, which we should have taken as a sign to leave. We each ordered a plate of "beef kebab" ($12) and took our seats.

About 20 minutes later, our food is finished. The employees seemed to be unsure whether we were supposed to go to the counter for the food, or if they were supposed to bring it to us. We ended up meeting them halfway.

The paper plates were filled with rice and the "kebab". The rice was overcooked, and had virtually no seasoning on it. The meat was tasteless, tough, and had clearly not been trimmed before it was cooked. I had pieces of gristle as large as the pieces of meat. It was covered in some gravy-like sauce.

Bizarrely, about 5 minutes into the meal, our "server" guy told us that soda was complimentary, and pointed to a fridge full of coke and sprite cans.

>>4345495

NY, but CA is allowed to play as long as it's the Bay Area or (shudder) LA.

DC, Seattle, and Portland are also acceptable. I'll even allow Chicago.

>>4345512
I think you walked in on a robbery in progress and the assailants were just very resourceful. Too bad the costumers and employees were in the back with machetes to their necks while you ate prison food cooked in kebab format.

probably asparagus

it looked good, but I just couldn't get past that texture

Five Guys.

>>4345527
brilliant

dragonfruit ice cream

Mongolian bbq

>>4345586
>>4345508
A five guys was built in a nearby city and I was like "why the fuck not"

>walk in
>nice design and colors
>classic rock playing, cool
>tons of fucking options for my burger
>no teenagers working there
>pretty clean
>big cup of lemonade
>fuck yeah burger time
>taste like any burger I or someone else could make for way less

Sure it was good but not worth the price when I could walk into wendy's and get a baconator for like $5, their fries were also meh.

I've been there too OP, should have posted a thread, I would have told you to stay away. Fucking terrible food.

The only reason it gets high ratings is because of the liberals with white guilt syndrome want to appear cultured and diverse by praising African food and eating African turds.

Most things I try in life are a letdown. I spend a good amount of time on 4chan.

>>4345486
you did so many things wrong in that story that your opinion on "french" food is invalid.

i hate the french, but at least go to a restaurant that prepares and serves their quisine properly before talking shit about it.

>>4345491
sounds about right.

>>4346182
>no teenagers working there

damn, where the hell do you live? every five guys i've ever been to is nothing but high school kids. i enjoy the burgers there too.

>>4345664
What was it like?

>>4345586
5 guys is delicious what r u talking about

>>4345512
Must have been bad kebabs dude
Turkish food is delicious and kebabas are bomb expecially if lamb dude sooo good.

Went to a North Korean themed restaurant, I ordered food but only half of it was served.

When I asked about it, the waiter said that rations for this month has been cut in half for this month.

>>4348736
oh.my.god.
thanks for the laugh, I'm out on that note

> one word
sonic

>>4345486
> goes to French place in Philly
> concludes that french cuisine is overrrated

stay poor, stay provincial, stay uneducated

>Go to school in Portland
>Downtown with GF on a Friday
>Dinner time
>Go to Dan and Louis' Oyster House because I have a lot of nostalgic memories associated with it. Used to go there whenever my family would visit from PA growing up, and when my grandpa was still alive
>Nothing about the interior has changed, same menu of chowder and fried food
>GF eats it up, loves the occasional tacky seafood place (shes from Anchorage so they're nostalgic for her too)
>Decide to start with oysters on the half shell and oysters Rockefeller
>Never had either of those things before
>Get the raw oysters, and they are shucked so poorly I have to pull shell shards out before eating, and one of them looked like it had been impaled, but they are tasty
>Rockefeller is watery, mushy, and bland

I was disappoint. Figured they would actually be a good place to try oysters. I've had great oysters elsewhere since then, at least.

>>4348759
I read that as
>Get down with my GF on Friday

>>4345385
>thinks Ethiopian food is good

>just like europeans know how to into freedom

ya dun goof'd

>>4348747
>stay provincial
>implying that's not the best french food

stay stupid fag

>>4349553
>implying the story would be different

Most authentic Mexican food. I just don't get it.

Also Cincinnati Chili, shit tasted like potpourri.

>>4349629
>Most authentic Mexican food
Most everyone who's had it feels the same way in my experience.

>>4349634
I find "authentic" mexican better than the usual tex-mex stuff, except for the like, stomach and stuff.

Not a fan of mexican food in general though, gotta admit. Seems like sloppy permutations of the same few ingredients. Though the non-over-americanized sort seems somewhat less sloppy, sometimes.

>>4345385
I know there aren't many good restaurants in Cincy, but seriously? Ethiopian food out of all the choices you had?
Ethiopians don't even have food to cook

>>4349623
do you even know what provincial means?

>>4349634
>>4349629
>implying lengua isn't completely worthwhile

although i can see why some people wouldn't be a fan of real mexican food, they make some stuff people of other countries would find strange.

>>4349634

Whats wrong with authentic mexican food?

Its just meat, rice, beans and tortilla.

>>4349773
>meat of questionable origin and freshness
Ever eaten there?

Krispy Kreme

Need I say more?

Gonna agree with Five Guys.

I just tried it for the first time, yesterday. Place was cool, good music, cool people, but from the awards and articles plastered on their walls I expected the best burger on the planet. Instead, it was solidly alright. I've had better from a bar, though, to say nothing of my own grill.

>>4349793
Good one. Dunkin Donuts all up in this bitch.

>>4349773

My grandparents both immigrated here from Mexico. I eat the real stuff all the time and frequent some of the popular authentic mexican restaurants in cali.

pic related, one of my favorite places. It often has a line that goes all the way down the block.

Checkers.
I've only gone there once due to the fact that the (less than a month old) restaurant had garbage strewn across literally every surface because nobody would empty the only garbage can in the restaurant. The food fortunately didn't get me sick, but it also didn't taste very good.

What I've learned from this thread is that all food made in America turns to shit.

Are the ingredients just inferior in America? Or can Americans just not appreciate different cuisines?

>>4349992
>ITT: I LERNT DAT HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE


Americans eat the most diverse selection of foods on the planet you filthy Mongol. Gtfo and eat some more horsemeat u fgt.

>>4352033
lol'd heartily

Fatburger

>Ethiopian
They're just stoked they have food, they don't even care if it's good.

Agree with French, most overrated food ever

>>4353249
The best french food is in the country side made by farmers and laborers who give 0 fucks and drink wine from the bottle, getting it from a restaurant was your first mistake

>>4345527
So funny I can't even laugh

I haven't recently tried it for the first time but I've recently started realizing Chinese food is bullshit.

Low quality meats, babbys first salty and sweet combination, grease, etc etc

Bump

Have you ever had Ethiopian food? Neither have they.