Chinese restaurants that serve tiki drinks in Los Angeles? - General Tiki

T tikiauction Member USA Joined: Sep 04, 2008 Posts: 108	T tikiauction Posted posted on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 6:17 AM the expectation that you'll walk into the local chinese-american lucky dragon restaurant and bar, and get authentic chinese is preposterous. the genre is chinese-american: crab rangoon, pupu platter, scorpion bowls, mai tais. i'll take a gander that most old-school chinese-american restaurants are set up that way! in fact, to take the polynesian bit out is like taking tomato sauce out of italian-american cooking. i fondly remember the "kong" in cambridge mass aka hong kong bar and restaurant, which my wife absolutely abhors, the manager had like a biker jacket on all the time. [ Edited by: tikiauction 2009-03-14 06:18 ]

the expectation that you'll walk into the local chinese-american lucky dragon restaurant and bar, and get authentic chinese is preposterous. the genre is chinese-american: crab rangoon, pupu platter, scorpion bowls, mai tais. i'll take a gander that most old-school chinese-american restaurants are set up that way! in fact, to take the polynesian bit out is like taking tomato sauce out of italian-american cooking.

i fondly remember the "kong" in cambridge mass aka hong kong bar and restaurant, which my wife absolutely abhors, the manager had like a biker jacket on all the time.

[ Edited by: tikiauction 2009-03-14 06:18 ]

Post #439899 by tikiauction on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 6:17 AM