Lol these are always funny. Look up people complaining about a “leaf” in their food when the recipe uses Bay Leaf. It’s like complaining someone put leaves in your tea.
Leaves obviously don’t belong into tea. Everyone knows tea grows when you hang those little paper bags on a tree. And depending on the kind of tree, you get a different type of tea.
Right and chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
Aren’t bay leaves supposed to be removed after cooking?
Big pot of something and hope you find all the bay leaves. You might pull some out, think you’ve got them all but they like to hide.
I’ve always tied them or used a little net bag to keep them together and easy to remove.
They’re supposed to bc they’re easy to remove. I’d feel better they remain in there bc it’s easy to remove and means they’re using better quality ingredients more likely. It’s no big deal to take them out
Yes but for whatever reason I’ve often seen it left in and the person eating simply removes them.
I always leave them in because pulling them out is more trouble than it’s worth. I’m lazy as hell, but I’m also cooking for just my wife and I.
Literally worst case nobody’s going to crack a tooth or something. They get a spoonful of soup with a big leaf in it and they just put the leaf aside.
I will say though, I’ve had curry where the bay leaf is chopped up which makes it rather obnoxious.
Sure that wasn’t a curry leaf? Either way I’d agree they’re beat removed before serving.
If it’s not edible it shouldn’t be in the plate. Bay leaf, cinnamon sticks. Etc shouldn’t end up in the plate. They’re used just for flavor.
What a weird hill to die on!
So I assume you eat the bones of chicken wings, legs, thighs, etc? You eat the stems of apples and other such fruit? And you eat the cores or pits?
Or were you one of those children brought up by parents who cut off the crusts of the Wonder Bread sandwiches to make sure you never encountered any iota of challenge or even the most trivial work while eating?
Cores pits and stems are removed from cooking, and honestly I do like to nosh on the marrow from bones
This is just a difference in food cultures. If you can remove something like a core or a pit before you mix it in, great. With what I’m assuming is Indian food, you need to physically leave the cinnamon in there a while so the flavor can leach out. You can’t really do a bouquet garnis because this is a sauce that is stirred a lot over direct heat, not like a soup that is just simmered.
In those food cultures, you just know to eat around it. It’s no more a choking hazard than a bone in meat, so people will notice it.
I fucking hate bay leaf, if you don’t have a plan for getting it all out at the end don’t put it in the food because it’s gross.
Why do you think it is gross?
We were at a very authentic Chinese restaurant and and a family showed up and asked waiter for recommendations they said the roast duck is very good which is very true. The roast duck shows up to their table and the guy takes a bite and bites straight into bone and he starts loudly complaining how there’s bones in it and why isn’t there meat and that chicken has a lot more meat and why doesn’t the duck have more meat and that this is a rip off and then it’s all bones and he’s mad that they sold him this. The restaurant ended up taking back the dish and giving them a refund simply because of the customers ignorance it was so cringe.
This is exactly why some Chinese restaurants have a special Chinese menu that you need to ask for.
To be fair, not every Chinese restaurant knows how to slice duck properly. The proper way slices the meat and skin off of the bones, so that each piece has a bit of meat and skin, and presents the flesh separately from the bones.
Some places though just hack into the carcass so that every piece has bone. They say it’s ‘fun.’ I as an ethnic Chinese say it’s ridiculous. I have had it done right and I have had it done poorly and surprisingly the price point is the same! Some places really skimp on the seasoning too, at the same price point.
Other dishes tend to be fairly similar across different restaurants but it seems like with duck you can really tell who gives a shit / was trained properly as a chef.
Uh…
What you are describing is how, specifically, Beijing Roast Duck is served. China is a huge country with a bewildering variety of cultures within it. There are a million ways to prepare and serve duck here, and many of them do what you describe as “ridiculous” as the normal way to do it.
Instead of parading your ethnicity, thinking it’s a shield, how 'bout you come here and spend a few years and learn?
What’s the secret phrase to say to see the secret Chinese menu?
They would generally know if you are speaking Chinese. Otherwise “I would like to see the secret Chinese menu.” would probably work, if they have one.
I don’t speak Mandarin so the first option wouldn’t work. If I used the second option though they’d be like, “How did our secret get out?!”
They just don’t want people to complain about dishes they’re not used to. If you specifically ask for it then that’s enough to show that you’re specifically seeking it out. Also keep in mind not all Chinese restaurants do this, it’s normally the authentic really big restaurants that would have it. One way to tell is if you see dishes that aren’t on the menu others are eating or in pictures. Also that menu might be in Chinese only.
Never let that guy try frog’s legs.
I bet he’d like eating boners
They’re practically all meat
Well, the human ones anyway…
Reminds me of people complaining their vanilla flavored things having nasty little black dots.
The guy couldn’t just bring it to the staff and ask them what it is?
Sounds like it was a takeaway. You still think you’d call though if you found “a plastic handle” in your food and “had to throw the rest away”.
Yeah if it was taken out, I’d call them and ask what’s up right when I got home. But the dude would rather take a pic for attention
Delivery apps make it very easy to file a complaint and get a refund. Apps are making us fear human interaction.
And interact with another human being? When you could simply complain online and get likes? Do you live in a cave or something?
Dude couldn’t tell the difference between plastic and tree bark!?
The fuck is a tree? You mean those sticks in a car park?
That tree bark shouldn’t be in the plate though.
Perhaps it’s time to broaden your horizons a little.
So I should eat the cinnamon stick?
Yes. That’s exactly the right interpretation for what I said. There is no other possible interpretation that is both more accurate and more sensible. I meant you should eat the cinnamon stick.
Do you understand what the term “intellectual honesty” means? (Hint: no.)
Inedible spices should be picked out and removed
When an American goes to an Arabic or Indian restaurant 😂
There are dozens more countries you can add to that list. Cooking with whole spices is incredibly common
Oh absolutely, but that’s just what I have personally witnessed more often. lol
I live in Minnesota, and people here are very sheltered about food. I could tell a lot of stories, but I once ate nearby an elderly woman who refused to eat her enchilada because she assumed the tortilla was paper. I am not joking.
it’s still fucking weird to me that cinnamon is tree bark.
I seek that shit when I’m spooning biryani onto my plate at events/buffets. The rice stuck in between the bark is the best thing ever.
Dude … no. Thats the worst part wtf. Cinnamon is great, but in that particular case, absolutely not.
Idiotic behavior but who puts a cinnamon stick in there?
It’s a spice. Where else should it be?
Taken out after cooking? You don’t usually serve with the thing in. At least where i worked.
It depends on the culture. In Thai cooking for example it is purposely left in. Generalizing all cultures based on your own limited experience is incredibly ignorant. People are telling you it’s common and instead of just looking it up and confirming it’s true, which it is, you’re digging your heels in to maintain your ignorance.
