American Chinese V.S Authentic

[CleanSump]

Most of these mice in food things are fakes to get compensation or free meals after our local health department investigates them. Most restaurants, including the small independants, are recording you at your table folks.
It's like the food delivery scams - the reason delivery guys/gals take a photo when they leave something because there are always the people who claim it didn't arrive and want a refund scam.

 

[Huskyguy68]

Martin Yan from Yan can cook was one of my all-time favorites. A few years ago he cooked dishes from the Chengdu area. It was really interesting.

I was always watching Yan Can Cook! He was funny.
A very Vancouver tv celebrity.

 

[Huskyguy68]

Most of these mice in food things are fakes to get compensation or free meals after our local health department investigates them. Most restaurants, including the small independants, are recording you at your table folks.
It's like the food delivery scams - the reason delivery guys/gals take a photo when they leave something because there are always the people who claim it didn't arrive and want a refund scam.

Of course there will be scammers faking whatever to get compensation.
Unfortunately this was real.
As far as i know, the diner/photo taker never sued.
They made it public, the place got shut down because of the soup rat and other health violations.
Good. Good riddance.

 

[andrew_j]

American Chinese gives me a stomach ache. Had amazing authentic once however went back into kitchen with Chinese friend in Cambridge ma and was horrified at how dirty it was. So I just don’t eat it

 

[y_p_w]

I’ve had a Chinese friend tell me that the owner was loud enough to understand that he was telling the kitchen staff that the customers were Chinese and to use less oil and less salt. But it was apparently not off menu, although they provided some complimentary side that the owner said was mostly for the staff. It wasn’t something the average customer would have wanted from my understanding. The regular restaurant was a small part of their business, but something the owner did because he could schmooze with customers. Their big business was a big banquet room that mostly served tour buses filled with Chinese speaking tourists visiting a nearby national park. Chinese tourists often want something closer to what they eat at home. Don’t know how authentic it was but I’d think they were serving less Americanized food to those customers.

And that’s another thing. The model of serving large groups with more or less the same menu (served family style) was more profitable for the business than serving individual customers even at higher per plate prices.