The Truth About Chinese Restaurants

  On 7/23/2009 at 3:10 AM, essines said:

chen your avatar coupled with you being so canadian is giving me a northern boner.

 

no homo

No homo straight up northern man love rightback at you.

  On 7/23/2009 at 3:19 AM, Iain C said:

  On 7/23/2009 at 2:53 AM, chenGOD said:

LOL though, Iain, you do know that royalty basically defines what passes for "class".

 

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So to be truly well-mannered I should be boffing my cousins? I think you misunderstood what I meant by class, bro. And no, I never wear shoes in mine or anybody else's home.

Well at least that's one point in your favor.

Do you know what you mean by class then? For example, calling someone else a "moron", is that full of class?

And please, don't use the word "bro".

Also a good chinese restaurant in Edmonton was the Double Happiness downtown. Awesome dim sum.

The average sidewalk deserves more respect than the average WATMM mod. I'm going to bed.

So basically, you have no idea what you're on about and are retreating to the comforts of your bed.

Well done.

how this turned from a disgusting Chinese restaurant to a pointless argument on semantics is beyond me.

but yes, chinese restaurants are generally not in accordance with most countries' health laws. this is not new.

quite frankly, if you order General Tso's and expect anything more than mice skeletons, you shouldn't be ordering.

Chinese restaurants aren't even in accordance with China's health laws.

correct.

this is not new.

  On 7/23/2009 at 6:39 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

how this turned from a disgusting Chinese restaurant to a pointless argument on semantics is beyond me.

Internets.

  On 7/22/2009 at 9:51 PM, scones to die for said:

  On 7/22/2009 at 9:40 PM, chenGOD said:

why are westerners so horrified by spitting in the street?

White people in Oregon do this a lot too.

what?! omg! i'm surprised everyone not from oregon thinks spitting is a weird thing, holy crap... its not unusual when someone spits (in the street)... in fact, i've never lived anywhere where its unusual...then again, i'm from missouri/arkansas... hmmm...

lol i cant tell if thats sarcasm anymore

tecate sarcasm

I wonder what my ratio is for starting on a new page.

/awesome

I had Chinese takeaway from this place downtown once. I've eaten there a lot and it's good food (although I'm sure they've been shut down twice for poor hygiene in the past). But this one time did something monstrous to my bowels.

The next day at work I felt... uncomfortable. You know, in my guts.

I took an explosive, almost nuclear dump, I seriously thought I exploded the u-bend. The gas built up around the poo gave it some serious motion, it pretty much launched out of me. This smelt like something unearthly, not at all your usual fecal affair. So I did what any self respecting male did and looked at it. It kinda looked like half way between a tumour and a tumbleweed and seemed to be emitting a visible vapour.

I had to go to a clients right after, which was interesting as my guts felt like they were trembling with unease and trauma from that experience. When I got back to the office hours later the stench had apparently permeated throughout the place as I was greeted with horrified looks, (think seven days after watching the Ring video tape) "Is there something wrong with your insides?" and "The smell was stuck to the walls!"

I've never been more proud of myself. Suffice to say I've eaten there since.

(Congrats on my first true WATMM post!)

  On 7/23/2009 at 5:11 AM, chenGOD said:

So basically, you have no idea what you're on about and are retreating to the comforts of your bed.

Well done.

Fuck you, you willfully obtuse Canadian. I know exactly what I'm on about - I was referring to MANNERS. That is what I meant by CLASS. Not whether I was born in a terrace or in a mansion, not my socio-economic background. You know how sometimes a word can have more than one meaning? Yeah, that.

  On 7/23/2009 at 6:19 AM, xxx said:

Guyz, guyz, watch your history. It's hard for us to understand because AIDS is the only pandemic we've had to endure and that's easy to dodge. Mycobacterium tuberculi is a hardy fucking bacteria and when someone has tuberculosis and they spit, it's the largest resevoir of available bacteria possible. Now, it's possible that the loogie will be left alone but if anything is done to aerosolize it or if it gets on your shoe or any other possibility, you and your home are going to be contaminated. In the early 20th century before the advent of antibiotics, hundreds of millions of people had active TB so imagine if all of them went around spitting at your feet and in your pathway. This is why older generations and people smart about disease transmission don't prefer you spreading your own petri dish around in the form of spit. PS it's only getting worse; the latest H1N1 strain shows an antigenic shift to human, avian, and swine antigens, which gives it the potential to fuck you up beyond previously imagined. Spitting is about to become public enemy number one again.

 

Now, on a completely different note. I have literally eaten tons of Chinese food from the mankiest of spots to the most high-falutin' joints. Aside from some brief diarrhea from time to time (probably just some Campylobacter jejuni), the only thing I've gotten is weight gain. I won't lie; I've eaten from places where roaches were visible and the sheer deliciousness of food kept me from a boycott. Fact is, I'm a sturdy healthy young man derived of Teutonic stock so I don't worry. A lot of stuff is gross but not pathogenic.

Yes, spreading TB was one of the reasons my mum gave for not spitting. If Chen's parents were happy to let him spit in the streets, well good for them - he turned out alright anyway I suppose.

This thread sure has some class!

on the subject of spitting in the streets ill cover my mouth, lean toward a drain or corner, and let it drop discretely from my mouth. if there lots of people about, and in particular grannies, my face will then contort into a sort of apologetic grimace - the sort of face that says "cripes, that was a bit crude but terribly necessary". because i am a modern gentleman, juxtaposing practicality and manners for the 21st century.

If someone excuses themself that's something at least, and I'll even spit myself if I somehow end up with something disgusting in my mouth that didn't start its life in my body - an insect for example, or a piece of food which turned out to be rotten, but I'll try and spit it into a bin or toilet (or tissue) and I'll always apologise to anybody who saw it. If it's just phlegm or something else that came from your body, people should stop being so squeamish about it and just suck it down.

i only spit with a mic in my hand

if the spitter at least turns away from people and attempts to save people the sight and sound of it, i'm okay. if it's someone i know i could care less, i may even inspect it. Leah on the other hand, she'd spit on a stranger

  On 7/23/2009 at 1:36 PM, Obel said:

I had Chinese takeaway from this place downtown once. I've eaten there a lot and it's good food (although I'm sure they've been shut down twice for poor hygiene in the past). But this one time did something monstrous to my bowels.

 

The next day at work I felt... uncomfortable. You know, in my guts.

 

I took an explosive, almost nuclear dump, I seriously thought I exploded the u-bend. The gas built up around the poo gave it some serious motion, it pretty much launched out of me. This smelt like something unearthly, not at all your usual fecal affair. So I did what any self respecting male did and looked at it. It kinda looked like half way between a tumour and a tumbleweed and seemed to be emitting a visible vapour.

 

I had to go to a clients right after, which was interesting as my guts felt like they were trembling with unease and trauma from that experience. When I got back to the office hours later the stench had apparently permeated throughout the place as I was greeted with horrified looks, (think seven days after watching the Ring video tape) "Is there something wrong with your insides?" and "The smell was stuck to the walls!"

 

I've never been more proud of myself. Suffice to say I've eaten there since.

 

 

 

(Congrats on my first true WATMM post!)

A+ post, man - made my morning. I've had movements like that before - epic stuff.

its mostly the noise for me. i was raised well and taught spitting is wrong, its hard to shake your upbringing.in my rebellious phase i spat alot, like comically alot mostly because smoking makes your mouth taste bad and i thought it was hard. these days i don't spit much. my mom told me swallowing greenies (erm green mucus/boogies/whatever) would make the illness travel to your chest, obviously i now know that impossible.

but xxx is right it can carry disease and when the road sweeper comes down the road imagine how much shit its blowing up into the air.

See now this is a thread, spit, shit, phlegm...and mice skeletons in Chinese hookers vaginas. Good work WATMM!

Iain, actually my parents fully disapprove of the whole spitting thing, being as they're proper british and all.

So if sucking back phlegm is alright, since it just came from your body, what about eating your own snot? That just came from your body...

And again, I'm not talking about spitting inside (into a bin? if you're inside, go to the sink and then rinse it down...that's just uncouth man). I'm talking bout spitting out of doors. I just don't understand why people think it's such a disgusting thing. Disgusting is that 300lb woman with the cellulite thighs in pink hot pants that say "JUICY" across the ass. Or the 450lb dude wearing no shirt with his belly roll hanging low. Or a Joyrex shit story. If I'm not spitting on you, it's just something that everybody has done.

As for class/manners, again, the etiquette (manners) was basically protocol inherited from the royals.

  On 7/23/2009 at 7:00 PM, chenGOD said:

See now this is a thread, spit, shit, phlegm...and mice skeletons in Chinese hookers vaginas. Good work WATMM!

 

Iain, actually my parents fully disapprove of the whole spitting thing, being as they're proper british and all.

So if sucking back phlegm is alright, since it just came from your body, what about eating your own snot? That just came from your body...

 

And again, I'm not talking about spitting inside (into a bin? if you're inside, go to the sink and then rinse it down...that's just uncouth man). I'm talking bout spitting out of doors. I just don't understand why people think it's such a disgusting thing. Disgusting is that 300lb woman with the cellulite thighs in pink hot pants that say "JUICY" across the ass. Or the 450lb dude wearing no shirt with his belly roll hanging low. Or a Joyrex shit story. If I'm not spitting on you, it's just something that everybody has done.

 

As for class/manners, again, the etiquette (manners) was basically protocol inherited from the royals.

RE snot: No, use a tissue and put it in a bin. That's the easiest way to get rid of it. If you've got spit or phlegm in your mouth, you didn't pick it out with your fingers and put it there. Totally different. And in this country we have bins outside. And xxx has explained the very good reasons why people think it's disgusting - historically and to an extent today it's a huge vector for infectious and dangerous diseases. That has nothing to do with royal protocol.

i like the royal family. there i said it

just spit on the ground, unless you have some terrible infectious disease. it's just going to be gone in an hour, unlike plastic bags and bottles and other synthetic litter.