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vandenberg
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Loreto sure good use a decent chinese restaurant.
The few that tried didn't succeed, mainly do to cold or lukewarm food and bad service.
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another interesting piece of history is that the Navy's largest
facility, China Lake in the Mojave desert, got
it's name from the Chinese coolies[sp?] that had their camp on the lakeshore while building a railroad to transport silver ore from Cero Gordo in the
White mountains, above Owens lake, to the port of Los Angeles. Of course, both China lake and Owens lake have been dry since LA Municipal Water
District diverted the Owens river in 1913 and that railroad is long gone.
Bob Durrell
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
mainly due to cold or lukewarm food and bad service. |
Oh...is that all? 
You Loretoeños must not have a sense of humor.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
China Lake in the Mojave desert, got
it's name from the Chinese coolies |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie
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lizard lips
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I've heard more than once that China has the worst Chinese food in the world.
Been to China many times and the best food I ever had was room service at the Intercontinental in Hong Kong. Other than that all the restaurants seem
to make soups... Fish soup, Chicken soup, Beef soup with or without noodles and a lot of stuff I saw on display behind the counter that the flies
seemed to enjoy.
As much traveling as I do I always stick to two thing-If I can't see the chef making it, I won't eat it, and you don't order shellfish or any kind of
seafood if you are not in a restaurant VERY close to the ocean.
With that said, I have never been sick-YET
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Barry A.
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Hong Kong is different (than mainland China)--------we have had excellent food in Hong Kong, but then I am prejudiced as I think Hong Kong is the most
beautiful city I have EVER been to and I am in la la land when there.
Barry
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Hong Kong is great Barry. There is nothing like walking the streets at 3am and checking the people out and browsing the small stores and street
vendors.
I have been there many times as well the mainland and the mainland is so much different as is the food.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
during one of my business trips to South Korea my hosts took me to an "authentic" chinese restaurant because I was getting tired of korean food. the
first course served was raw jelly fish. anyone had that in Baja? |
Are you kidding? I won't even eat Sushi...or whatever the correct word is. It should be on fish hooks.
I've heard more than once that China has the worst Chinese food in the world.
It's hard to beat California for avant garde foods and methods. |
Dennis,
You are thinking of sashimi, thinly sliced raw fish, usually tuna, most often served with wasabi. Sushi can be a wide variety of "center"
ingredients, not necessarily fish and not necessarily raw. A thin line of ingredients are laid on a bed of sticky rice which is then rolled into a
cylinder, with or without a seaweed wrapper. The cylinder (think of it as a "rice burrito") is then sliced crosswise into bite-sized pieces. Proper
technique is to put the entire piece in your mouth. Never cut it or bite off part of it.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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DENNIS
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Barry and
Barry are getting action on the same thread. Haven't seen this much interaction for quite some time.
Yeah...I knew "Sushi" was a misnomer, but it's a common one. Gimme a Machaca Burrito any day. Sushi/Sashimi was designed by little people who just
had their electrical infrastructure fried by Jimmy Doolittle.
Gawwwdammmm, folks....cook your food. Please.
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You don't eat oysters on the half shell?
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
You don't eat oysters on the half shell? |
NO!!!! Never felt I needed them. (and yes, I realize that question was
NOT for me) 
Barry
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
You don't eat oysters on the half shell? |
NO!!!! Never felt I needed them. (and yes, I realize that question was
NOT for me)
Barry |
Oh...that's OK, Barry. It's my answer as well....NO. None of those snotty, rubbery uncooked molusks for me.
I like fried Oysters however.
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My favorite mental image of sushi comes from "Rising Sun" with Sean Connery, when Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as "Eddie Nakamura" ate sushi off the body of a
naked redhead,
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
My favorite mental image of sushi comes from "Rising Sun" with Sean Connery, when Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as "Eddie Nakamura" ate sushi off the body of a
naked redhead, |
That's not the same thing. Nope. Not at all.
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Bajahowodd
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
You don't eat oysters on the half shell? |
NO!!!! Never felt I needed them. (and yes, I realize that question was
NOT for me)
Barry |
Oh...that's OK, Barry. It's my answer as well....NO. None of those snotty, rubbery uncooked molusks for me.
I like fried Oysters however. |
And Oysters Rockefeller!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
My favorite mental image of sushi comes from "Rising Sun" with Sean Connery, when Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as "Eddie Nakamura" ate sushi off the body of a
naked redhead, |
I can see why that would be your favorite.
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China has the worst Chinese food in the world. My Chinese wife agrees. The upside to this is there's usually a McDonalds somewhere nearby.
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Best Chinese restaurant I've ever haunted is called Hunan Homes, on Jackson near Kearney (just off Grant Avenue) in San Franisco. In the old days
(the 'fifties) it was called Sun Tai Sam Yuen and we'd eat there after hours as it was a short walk up Jackson from the most famous of the Hungry i's
incarnations.
Also surprisingly good is a restaurant opened by a delightful young Chinese couple in Payson, Arizona, in Payson's one and only shopping center, not
the joint on the Bumble Bee highway as you come into town from Phoenix.
In La Paz . . . oh god, why spoil a nice day.
I've noticed two new Chinese restaurants on Forjadores Blvd. recently. Has anyone had nerve enough to try them?
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This kind of reminds me of the fact that for many years Americans called Asians Orientals almost exclusively for many years?
Maybe it is the same thing, Chino is all inclusive?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajazz
Best Chinese restaurant I've ever haunted is called Hunan Homes, on Jackson near Kearney (just off Grant Avenue) in San Franisco. In the old days
(the 'fifties) it was called Sun Tai Sam Yuen and we'd eat there after hours as it was a short walk up Jackson from the most famous of the Hungry i's
incarnations.
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Oh Yeah! The Hunan was a regular haunt for me, and also any Sezchuan restaurant. Their food is spicier and more flavorful than Cantonese food, for my
tastes. I do like Cantonese too, though.
Jesse,
You mentioned the Chinese restaurant in Mulege. They only serve it on Sunday nights. The food is very good and many gringos make that
their Sunday night ritual. However, you need to block the whole evening and have mucho patience.
If you are hungry, it really tests your patience. It helps to pound cervezas, but you have to go to the service bar and interrupt someone and bring it
back to your table yourself. If you order it through the waiter, you will sit there, unfulfilled (and unfilled). It just doesn't happen.
The service is probably the worst I have ever experienced anywhere...not only slooooooooooooooooooow, but almost every order arrives at your table,
maybe, but with many errors. This is not just a rare off night. You can count on it, modus operandi. You have to be in the mood and prepared to shrug
your shoulders and laugh a lot!
They say Mexico that "Mexico teaches you patience", but this place is patience boot camp. 
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