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Thinking of making a series of posts called ‘revenge cooking’. Left side: something I spent money on that I disliked. Right side: a better version of the thing I had to end up making.
I made the tostadas coz I had one that really disappointed me recently. We went to a Swiss restaurant that had a schnitzel that was so bad, my wife called it a shitzel, and now I have to make it I guess.
I enjoy going to restaurants, I used to do it for a living (a long time ago), now it’s a hobby and special interest, but I’m starting to feel like the economics of restaurants are getting impossible. No, I do not want a $25 sandwich. Or a wet tostada. Or a dry schnitzel.
There are some things that I won’t be able to make. But as a pretty well traveled home cook who has learned to cook for a very long time, I can make a lot of it. Most likely I’ll just end up only eating out for truly special meals. Still glad I have good dimsum here (at Harborview, Osmanthus, Ming’s Tasty), coz I don’t want to make that. Going out for nice dimsum is a special treat I don’t want to stop doing.
Still a fan of most of our immigrant restaurants. Going to them is a fun way to learn new foods I don’t know how to cook.
There is a new Uzbek food stall at the farmer’s market, and I’ve enjoyed going to many of the Yemeni- run places recently.
However, ‘New Californian’ and ‘New American’ restaurants need to die out. Burn it all with fire.
@skinnylatte I had my first Uzbek dumplings and noodles recently. Absolutely lush.
@Edent yum. Gotta get some. I am also a fan of plov
@skinnylatte please can we add ‘Asian fusion’ restaurants to the bonfire
@johncormier fine with it when Asian chefs do it, but the other way round is often disappointing.
At Atelier Crenn, they did baos that were so bad I was embarrassed for them. The French stuff was great of course
@skinnylatte fair, though I’ll bet it’s handled better in your corner of the world. The older I get, the more sure I am that when it comes to food, I want skill to be maximized and innovation to be minimized.
@skinnylatte We have some Uzbek-Korean places in Brooklyn which are really cool if you haven't seen that before.
@serverlessaoife nice! We don’t have those restaurants but we do have a small community of those folks here too
@skinnylatte OMG it's an Asian immigrant calling for arson on local American restaurants! Arrest her! 