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[clockworktomato]

I'm really not a traditionally nice person to those I don't know -- I'm polite and courteous, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that I make a habit of being nice to strangers

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[coercedbynutmeg]

Crab rangoon must be a midwestern thing, because you can't seem to find them in coastal states, and even most Chinese restaurants dont make them. Luckily, they're easy enough to make.

You know, adults are the same way though! I've seen people older than I am go digging and diving through a dish looking for stuff or avoiding stuff. Whatever happend to just taking a spoonful of what you get and eating that?

[delicata77]

I have had them at many Chinese places in California.
In Southern and Northern CA.

My guy and I love 'em.

[coercedbynutmeg]

They aren't here on the east coast, and they aren't abundantly available in Georgia either.
I heard the crab rangoon was invented in Springfield, Missouri, but I'm not sure if that's true or not. They're absolutely NOT authentic Asian cuisine though. A two minute google search says they were invented at a Trader Vic's somewhere.

[faecat]

Wherever they came from, they are divine and heavenly and I will happily push people out of the way to get my fair share.

[the_dibbler]

I am of the belief that children do not get to help themselves at a buffet. they make a goddamned mess. Leave them at the table and go get them a plate of whatever you, the parent, deem appropriate kidfare. On the rare occassion that we went to buffet style restaurants growing up, that's what my parents did and that's what I do with Noah now.

Beyond that? Chinese buffets scare me.

[clockworktomato]

My parents did the same thing -- they knew what my younger brother would eat, so they got him a plate of sweet and sour chicken and french fries, then they'd encourage him to try bits of their food.

Chinese buffets probably should scare me, but instead they're something of a rare guilty pleasure. I'm a whiny Chinese-food lover who wants to eat Chinese like it's tapas, so they're the best way for me to get exactly what I want for under $20. (I want noodles with my food, not rice, and I want one each of every fried appetizer, but don't want to pay $10 for a pu-pu platter, etc.)

[delicata77]

That sounds like hell.
I am so sick of parents setting up their kids with horrible manners and this fucked up sense of entitlement.
It's horrible.

"picking out the 'good stuff'" is so FUCKING rude to do at a buffet, hell, anywhere for that matter! Sounds like more bad parenting to me.

[clockworktomato]

Yeah, I wasn't really all that bugged about the kid doing it until the parent did the exact same damn thing, at which point I thought "Oh, I see where he learned it!."

And, honestly, I've seen this all the time and never really had it faze me until today when, because I had a takeout box and perishable groceries in the car and couldn't wait for the kitchen to bring out more, I didn't get any of the "good stuff" in the dish at all.

*pout*

[delicata77]

They were a couple of ruiners.

Argh.

[silversliver]

Hot damn that's rude! I can sympathize with people who don't like one ingredient and leave that behind (for me, that's the baby corn), but to take just the meats in a dish and leave behind the vegetables is a terrible waste. At that point, why get the buffet? Order a portion of imitation crab in brown sauce and split it with your kid! @&#$^ selfish people.