Which reminds me of my first trip to NYC and coming across several restaurants with both Chinese and Cuban/Latin-American menus, which struck me as utterly bizarre, until someone explained to me about Chinese Cubans.
There is a restaurant in Atlanta GA called The Colonnade, which is supposedly the oldest restaurant in the city. The clientele is elderly and the food is your typical southern fare.
Then there was the ostrich. It was featured on Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives. My brother used to work there and said, “oh, they took that off the menu before the show even aired.”
Also, never order fried calamari from a Chinese takeout place.
Spaghetti and red sauce at an Ethiopian restaurant. Clearly the “You don’t like ‘weird food’ but your friends dragged you here anyway.” option.
Ethiopia used to be an Italian colony. It’s possible that the chef has Italian roots, or at least has been influenced by Italian cooking.
There’s a Chinese restaurant here that also serves pizza. The pizza is much better than the Chinese food… :dubious:
In addition to Jeff Lichtman’s reply, see post #26 in this thread for an explanation. Although, it may also be for the less adventurous.
Speaking of Atlanta, you have the famous “Abdulla’s house of Ribs & Chinese Food” owned by the famous (or imfamous) ex Pro Wrestler Abdullah The Butcher, right? Heard its quite good…
And yes, The McDonalds in Hawaii have several things not on mainland menus such as: Saimin, Spam & Rice, Portuguese Sausage and Rice, McTeri(yaki) Burgers, Haupia and Taro Pie and most importantly, Fruit Punch.
As I’ve said in other threads, there is hardly a restaurant in lower New England that doesn’t serve pizza. Alongside the pizza-centric places every 500 yards are other restaurants that invariably have a neon PIZZA sign in their window, whether they’re general Italian, Greek, American, Mexican or some form of Asian.
You can’t get good pizza in any of them - yes, IMVHO.
A pu pu platter. At an Irish pub. In suburban New Hampshire. What do I win?
In WV, there’s a Chinese place that I understand does a good business in hushpuppies and honey butter and tomato cabbage soup. The Rice Bowl.
There used to be a restaurant the next town over that served you complimentary hushpuppies and honey butter with the soup before your meal. When it closed, I guess the Rice Bowl got the recipe. I haven’t tasted it yet for authenticity.
Or maybe when it closed they got the chef?
But it’s not “her loss”. It’s her doing what makes her happy, and clearly she doesn’t think she’s losing anything.