Painful!
From the menu of a local Indian restaurant. Having lived in India for many years, I used to think I knew my way around even regional Indian menus. But this ‘hard chicken’ is a mystery. It doesn’t sound particularly appetising.
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I’m trying to figure out what a “finger millet swallow dish” is.
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the printed menus at 101 Noodles Express (a fabulous Chinese place in the San Gabriel valley, best dan dan noodles EVER) offered a “scallion pangcake”. And it wasn’t an isolated typo. The beef roll was also “wrapped in scallion pangcake”.
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Swallows are mashed starchy foods:
I guess this is a sort of mashed potato side but made from finger millet.
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That’s kinda how I say it!
The latter is for when you can’t tell if you’re hungry, or if you’re hungry.
If yer slices em thin, yer can roof more houses with em.
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Ahem, the restaurant is called “ 101 Noodle Express “. Given the topic, I thought it was germane to point this out. And after your pangcake you should order their beef roll and slather it with the cilantro chile sauce on the tabletop.
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H-Mart’s computer system had for years, and may still have, frog legs as “FLOG LEGS”. I’ve gotten them from stores in GA and one in FL and the label and receipt both have that.
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I have gotten said beef roll and used said sauce.
I lived in SoCal for 5 years and 101 is always on the list to visit again whenever I have occasion to go down that way.
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And I was assuming that “finger millet” was a millet dish one ate with one’s fingers. (And I figured that the “swallow” part did not refer to the bird, but who could be sure?)
Clearly, there are almost as many ways to diagram this as “time flies like an arrow”.
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I think it was down around Merced (California’s Central Valley) where we once saw a professionally made sign advertising “FLESH STRAWBERRIES”. I was laughing so hard I nearly ran off the road. Unfortunately, it was in the days before everybody carried a camera in their pocket.
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i’ve seen seen “with au jus gravy” once or twice…
Also, recently in barcelona, the mysterious “croquettes with jam”… (by which they meant “jamon”)
And on a Chinese menu “Chicken rude and unreasonable”… (by which they meant “Jerk Chicken”)
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They still do, at least at the Hmart I frequent. Always gives me a good chuckle.
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OK, this one I like!
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“Steak with delicious aujus sauce” appeared on a menu in California many years ago. My wife and I still get a laugh from recalling it.
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I remember a server at Babbo schooling a dining companion who had asked if there was any Crème Brûlée available for dessert, when I was in NYC for a bachelorette in 2008. Out of the 6 of us seated at our table, 3 of us had parents or grandparents who ran restaurants.
Babbo had Panna Cotta. The clearly non -Italian and non-Italian American server used a sing songy pronunciation of Panna Cotta when she gleefully told my dining companion that Babbo was an Italian restaurant therefore they don’t offer Crème Brûlée, but they do offer Panna Cotta, which is Italian. (Duh)
This cracked me up because the dining companion, who was a 40 yo woman at the time, was Greek Canadian (fairly closely aligned with the Italian Canadian community, often having parents that immigrated around the same time, often living in the same neighborhoods, often having a similar cultural experience in Canada) , and running 2 full service Greek restaurants in Toronto, as well as helping her parents with their Greek food franchise which is found in food courts across the country.
She was just in the mood for Crème Brûlée after dinner, that’s why she asked if it was available. The server thought my dining companion was an idiot.
Now I’m craving Banh Mi.
When I see “haricot verts” I wanna slap someone.
