hmmmm....Food!!!! What we like to eat!

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Obcession said:

I swear they make their living all off the location of the restaurants, since there's like 5 student residence buildings infront of it. If they were located 2 blocks down I would never eat there

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I had a similar experience. There was a Chinese place near where my wife went to college. We went there once when my wife and I were still dating. I ordered a bowl of noodle, had one bite and spitted it out. we eventually decided to finish it because it was so expensive. They charged $8 for a bowl of noodles and this was 10 years ago when the minimum wage was still $4.25. They also sold some spices and sauces that they bought from Chinese grocery stores in Chinatown in Houston (about 90 miles away). But they doubled the price in their store because they were the only Chinese place in town, which is a college town and always enjoys a large Chinese student population. Not surprisingly, it is no longer there.

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vesicles said:

conclusion: we can't farm

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I think I know what your problem is........ you are calling yourself farmers

Over here Vegetable growers are garderners
Fruit growers are orchardists
Animal grazers are farmers

Seriously, why dont you get your soil analysed, maybe its missing some trace elements

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bladerunner said:

Over here Vegetable growers are garderners

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even people growing veggies for a living are called gardeners?

bladerunner said:

Seriously, why dont you get your soil analysed, maybe its missing some trace elements

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I think our soil does have some problem as it's kind of whitish in color...

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So I just moved back to Jersey, and I realized something I want...BAOZI! I would prefer GouBuLi Baozi, it is so good.

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vesicles said:

even people growing veggies for a living are called gardeners?

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The first chinese settlers here after the goldmining period were either laundry operaters, mum n pop restaurants,green grocers/fruit growers and vegetable growers/nown as market garderners to distinguish themselves from the amateur home garden.

Although today the term market garderners has been replaced with the term commercial growers, the land they grow on is still referred to as market gardens when listed for sale at the realtors.

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My mother tried to grow tomatoes, however during the night the damned deers ate them. So since I came back home I plan on using my bb gun and shoot some of them.

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Damingli85 said:

My mother tried to grow tomatoes, however during the night the damned deers ate them. So since I came back home I plan on using my bb gun and shoot some of them.

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Why BB gun? You should get a shotgun. Wait a second, you are in Jersey. Wish you are in Texas, huh?

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If I was in Texas I would probably get an AK to hunt deers. BTW I was eating unflavored yogurt and it reminded me of the yogurt I would get in China, you know those in those ceramic bottle things that you had to return, they had paper on top and you can actually drink them with a straw. If I get back to China in the near future, I am going to buy 5 and drink them all in one sitting.

We have a HUGE Chinatown in Houston: about 6 supermarkets, each with its own shopping center, along with thousands of other stores. but we don't have many Asian places outside of Chinatown. Well, let me put it this way: outside of Chinatown, we don't have any Asian places that Asians want to go

To go to Chinatown, we have to pass the most congested area in houston, which itself is usually considered to have the worst traffic congestions in the nation. It's become such a hassle, eating Western food is way more convenient to us.

Of course, to my parents, we are just plain lazy since they drive 2 hours each way to go to Chinatown once a month to get their meat, sauces and "exotic" veggies.

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What kind of a Chinatown is that??? If that is Chinatown, we have Chinatowns all over the place here. And what can possibly go wrong with Asian places outside Chinatown/Lil' Saigon/Lil' Tokyo/Koreatown/etc??? Even if it's all Sailormoon and Pokemon and sushi and teriyaki, they can't possibly mix up brisket and flank and sell only bok-choy...... can they?

Apparently Mr. Chow's is a Chinese restaurant chain serving food in Western manners.... The description reminds me of the restaurant my parents use to have.

Oh no, I live in SF and there is only 1 non-Cantonese place (actually, it's a local chain) out here whose food is acceptable.
(Well, 9 out of 10 Chinese in the city are Cantonese (9 of 10 of which are from this one region outside Guangzhou) so we are not that diverse Chinese wise.)
With the exception of Sichuan, they tend to mix up the different regions of food if I am not mistaken. Still, avoid the Sichuan places.

How many miles do you actually travel. Over here the size of greater Akld is about 55miles by 15 miles and public transports terrible, so it can take hrs, during peak times.

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A bit off topic, but is it me or do most Commonwealth cities tend to have really really bad traffic systems prone to pileups of different sorts?

Heh, did you dig the hole deep enough?

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And after planting the tree, did you make sure there was a shallow pool at the base?
Obcession:
U of Waterloo? Think a couple of us go there also, maybe you can ask them where to get a good bite.

Why BB gun? You should get a shotgun. Wait a second, you are in Jersey. Wish you are in Texas, huh?

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Try being a Vermontian that ended up in literally the gayest city in the US. Ironic that my dad use to have one but don't care to touch them anymore.....

I was eating unflavored yogurt and it reminded me of the yogurt I would get in China, you know those in those ceramic bottle things that you had to return, they had paper on top and you can actually drink them with a straw.

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Acid milk? Oh yea, those are nice. When Andrew Zimmern was in town, I was so disappointed that he wasn't ever near a stand that sold the stuff. (And he missed the thousand year old egg in Taiwan.)

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Being in Taiwan I have grown to see just how bad most chinese food was in Canada. I absolutely love Baozi, eat Dan Bin ( kind of like an egg with tortilla) every week for breakfast, and Tea eggs, first time i had them was shocked they tasted so good, but, thousand year old eggs or iron eggs, well, they just weird me out.