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Jim B. · #31 08-27-2007, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by diametricalbenz

I have a great idea. We should have Chinese food in SF somewhere as part of the next Northern CA MB meet. The Fremont Street parking lot will be loaded with Benzes.

The person who can shove the highest number of "siu mai" in their mouth wins a trunk triangle!

That is funny - kinda.

My question, and I think it is a fair one, would be this: where would you park 25 Mercedes, all at one time in San Francisco?

Leave them all at the Marina Green by the Yacht Club and rent a motorized Cable Car or something??!

diametricalbenz · #32 08-27-2007, 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim B.

That is funny - kinda.

My question, and I think it is a fair one, would be this: where would you park 25 Mercedes, all at one time in San Francisco?

Leave them all at the Marina Green by the Yacht Club and rent a motorized Cable Car or something??!

I think it would be hilarious but we'd get a lot of stares. As long as the food is paid they usually don't care. I mean after all tables aren't cleaned, they're tea-washed.

In all seriousness if it were earlier (like 10am) and obviously on a weekend the Fremont garage isn't too bad and has had space for 25 cars. The garage itself is cramped but there is usually space if there isn't a holiday or Fleet Week.

I guess a motorized cable car with an MB drivetrain would be acceptable.

Jim B. · #33 08-27-2007, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by diametricalbenz

I think it would be hilarious but we'd get a lot of stares. As long as the food is paid they usually don't care. I mean after all tables aren't cleaned, they're tea-washed.

In all seriousness if it were earlier (like 10am) and obviously on a weekend the Fremont garage isn't too bad and has had space for 25 cars. The garage itself is cramped but there is usually space if there isn't a holiday or Fleet Week.

I guess a motorized cable car with an MB drivetrain would be acceptable.

I can't recall any destination Chinese restaurants anywhere near Fremont St., to be honest. It should be a nice one that was chosen, though safety of the cars would need to be paramount.

I'd even suggest a place like Manora's Thai on 11th St, Angkor Wat (Cambodian) on outer Geary, or Fina Estampa (Peruvian) or Golden Turtle (Viet) on Van Ness - for the really good, authentic stuff - but transportation/parking is the issue with them

raymr · #34 08-27-2007, 08:25 AM

We try to go to the Chinese restaurants that have a lot of Asian patrons. Still they order from a separate menu from the "gringos". Often their children are eating what looks like seaweed and mussels, or other very non-American cuisine. I wish my kids liked seaweed and mussels. They can barely get down the sweet and sour chicken, ordered because it looks the most like chicken nuggets.

Kuan · #35 08-27-2007, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Gurkha

Same goes for whats passed off as Indian food in US, highly priced fakes, you won't find anything in an average Indian's platter.

We have good authentic Indian food here.

Good all around Indian, veggie and non. The veggie stuff is the best.

Kuan · #36 08-27-2007, 08:43 AM

Probably, the stuff on the standard Chinese restaurant menu which Chinese people eat...

Steamed fish with ginger
Chicken and Chinese brocolli
Panfried noodles (Hong Kong style)
Ma Po Tofu
Peking duck

Gurkha · #37 08-27-2007, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Kuan

We have good authentic Indian food here.

Good all around Indian, veggie and non. The veggie stuff is the best.

Kuan,

What they pass off as Indian is a far cry from what is actually Indian, dignitaries from US and rest of the world who are into Indian cuisine come to India to taste the real stuff, what you get in US is also un-neccesarily expensive.

raymr · #38 08-27-2007, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Gurkha

Kuan,

What they pass off as Indian is a far cry from what is actually Indian, dignitaries from US and rest of the world who are into Indian cuisine come to India to taste the real stuff, what you get in US is also un-neccesarily expensive.

I have been to expensive Indian restaurants that absolutely sucked. They were very heavy on the bread and little else. But our local Bombay Bistro is one of the best, and cheapest. The chutneys will knock your socks off. Of course this is relatively speaking, never having been to India.

Gurkha · #39 08-27-2007, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by raymr

I have been to expensive Indian restaurants that absolutely sucked. They were very heavy on the bread and little else. But our local Bombay Bistro is one of the best, and cheapest. The chutneys will knock your socks off. Of course this is relatively speaking, never having been to India.

See the so called highly rated ones, NY Times, Zagat etc. are truly atrocious, the ones in NY and SF as well as Washington DC, their menu and dishes don't taste anything like what it is in India, majority of the dishes don't even exist in India.

aklim · #40 08-27-2007, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by henrydupont

after a good meal it's chinese custom to kiss the cook on the lips.

Which set of lips, if it is a female cook?

aklim · #41 08-27-2007, 10:27 AM

Do you supposed these dishes are altered to cater to local tastes and availability of ingredients? For instance, if they served drunken shrimp here, would the locals freak out seeing a bunch of shrimp dumped live on their table and cooked with alcohol in front of them alive? If they served "monkey brains" with a live monkey below the table, is someone going to call PETA?

Ken300D · #42 08-27-2007, 12:04 PM

In the smaller Chinese Food places around Washington DC, when the door to the kitchen swings open as they take your order back, you can see the cook is Hispanic. Chinese immigrants are too well-connected and well-off these days to work in Chinese restaurants other than to take the customer's order. So the restaurants turn to cheaper labor.

Ken300D

aklim · #43 08-27-2007, 12:12 PM

We have a gyro shop here called Demitri's. 2 mexicans own and run it. they bought it from Demitri.

Kuan · #44 08-27-2007, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Gurkha

Kuan,

What they pass off as Indian is a far cry from what is actually Indian, dignitaries from US and rest of the world who are into Indian cuisine come to India to taste the real stuff, what you get in US is also un-neccesarily expensive.

Well I think it's authentic. My friends from India say it's authentic. That's all I can say. You should come over we can go eat. How hard is it to make Dosa? Maybe there's some micro organism in the air here that makes it ferment different.

Seriously, where do you live in the US? Because my Indian friends swear you can get Indian food here as good as back in India.

Kuan · #45 08-27-2007, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Ken300D

In the smaller Chinese Food places around Washington DC, when the door to the kitchen swings open as they take your order back, you can see the cook is Hispanic. Chinese immigrants are too well-connected and well-off these days to work in Chinese restaurants other than to take the customer's order. So the restaurants turn to cheaper labor.

Ken300D

Hee hee.. and they speak chinese with a spanish accent. Funnier than *****!