Not so Lean cuisine

My mom brought home some dinner from the store, though I guess she got excited with the stuff she found cause she got a lot of it. Some of the stuff I'm not used to eating.

There was some brand of asian foods called Bento Express. She got me a Philadelphia sushi roll dish. It comes with twelve of them and a pack of wasabi sauce. I don't think is all that bad but all the little seeds around the edges I don't really care for, making it crunch a bit. Reminds me of those hamburger buns from the school I attended before. I don't really know what the purpose of the seeds are but it doesn't seem all that much. The stuff however was smoked salmon (steelhead, sockeye, atlantic), cream cheese & dill pickles. Very odd combination of stuff considering is sushi, I expected more... not common american stuff here, but is only further perpetuate the idea is called "Philadelphia Roll"

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The other thing she got me was called Shrimp Pad thai. Other than shrimp, I didn't know what i was eating. The label says is rice noodles which I thought was ramen noodles cause it look like some of the other instant ramen noodle dishes we have around here. It says it garnished with egg and green onions. I was kinda disappointed, it seem like square diced boiled egg yolk, wondering where the egg was until I figured it out. I didn't find no egg white, the dish came with a sliced lime that was sour. The only thing I didn't enjoy was the dish was filled with shredded carrots and not enough shrimp. I'm not a fan of carrots but I do eat them, there is other vegetables I enjoy even less like peas and beans but the carrots just didn't help much.

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The other thing I tried was some type of Patty shaped potato bread. It looked like those beef patties or some call it empanada but it was filled with potato, obviously I was shocked there was no meat inside. She referred to it as Knish. Not very practical to that, usually stuff wrapped the way I saw it had more ingredients than just potatoes. There isn't much to say bout this, guess It was better saved to be eaten with something else than alone.

So I mean I tried some new stuff today, ever since that new market opened up, there been some stuff in there I never expected. Just wanted to share my thoughts about those things. :)
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@Pleng
Im sure i would know what im talking about, having worked at a real asian restaurant before and all that
 
@gameboy

Yes one would hope you would have picked up a thing or two, having worked at a "real" Asian restaurant. And you clearly have... You got the pronunciation of the word Pho pretty much correct. That seems to be the only thing you've picked up on correctly, though, as everything else you've come out with is absolute rubish.

FYI even "real" Asain restaurants in foreign countries adapt their dishes so as to be more suitable for the pallets of the citizens of the host country. Even then I can't imagine *what* they could have possibly done to make you come up with the line "Pad Thai is Pho"...
 
Want something nice and easy to eat at night or just as a snack? Try to get hardbread/cripsbread (IKEA got them) and cut meatballs in halves. Then just some normal amount of butter on the hardbread and put the meatballs on. Simple and delicious. When I mean Swedish meatballs. The kinds you get at IKEA for example and not the once that are in sauce.
 
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@gameboy
The Pho I ate was on the side of the streets in Ho-Chi-Mihn city. I walk past about 20 Pad Thai vendors every day, seeing as I live in Thailand.

I'm guessing that this mysterious "Asian" restaurant you suddenly worked in (as opposed to getting your information on the packets of instant noodles, as per your original claim) was either a Chinese restaurant that also did a bit of Thai and Vietnamese food, or a Thai restaurant that also did Vietnamese food. They probably used the same noodles in Pho as they used for Pad Thai either out of ignorance, or more likely to save money or for convenience. I've pretty much ruled out the possibility of it being a Vietnamese restaurant that also served Pad Thai, because I can't imagine Pad Thai being made with vermicelli, and I don't think a Vietnamese chef would create their signature dish with Thai rice noodles.

Here's a couple of pictures for reference....

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Pad Thai - Stir-fried flat rice noodles (yes, you boil them first...)

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Pho - Vietnamese round vermicelli in a soup
 
I live near Portland Oregon, and there's always the same noodle hut I go to for Pad Thai. It's super amazing.
 
I think the lime is normal, it goes with seafood. You're supposed to squeeze it over the noodles.
Carrots, maybe in small amounts? Not entirely sure.
 
@Pleng
i figured you never ate authentic food. I asked my reliable sources and the noodles used in pad thai are the exact same as used in pho, so there you go. the restaurant i worked at was owned by a guy from veitnam married to a laotion woman who immigrated to thailand and then to the u.s.a. she says the food in thailand NOW is more catered to tourists and is mostly no longer authentic. I've heard the same thing from people who revisited their homeland to find that they mostly make 'american-asian' street food catered to tourists tastes now
 
Ok @gameboy I'm clearly never going to win an argument with you... Your one Vietnamese woman maried to a Laoation clearly knows more about Thai food than everybody here in Thailand. And the Thai food in her restaurant is, of course, more authentic than the Thai food in Thailand itself because all the little street vendors who can't even speak a word of English, who's customers are 99% Thai, have quite obviously adapted their recepies to cater for the other 1%.

Pad Thai is *absolutely* Pho. Just as a Lasagna is actually a pizza.
 
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I'm a big fan of sushi (vinegared rice and fish), and I just had the "Philadelphia Roll" a couple of nights ago. It's not my thing, but I can see why people who don't do raw fish like it. (It's just so salty!)

Pad thai is just a rice noodle dish flavoured with spices. Not my favourite thing because it plays on the "sweet and salty" theme.

The last thing sounds good. Never had it before, but heard of it...knish. Potato patties are always good.
 
@Sonic Angel Knight

Sometimes the dish is made with carrots, sometimes without. I think the 'diced egg yolks' might actually be tofu?
 
Not sure, it says eggs on the label. "Garnished with eggs" Not that I know many dishes that gets garnished with eggs or tofu but I'm not well educated on the matter. :ninja:
 
Well I think they fry an egg in the wok then dump the noodles in when cooking Pad Thai, but that doesn't count as garnishing, so maybe you're right and they are indeed egg yolks.
 
Tofu is smoother in texture and more jelly-like IIRC. Egg yolks are more crumbly (the whites are more like tofu)
Also it should be easy to tell from the taste.
 
After reading this blog I am hungry, very hungry, but I would like to get some food, not Kebab, I think I've already eaten enough Kebab for three lifetimes, always it ends up being Kebab.

I really hope Germany had a more varied food selection, or perhaps it is the city I live in, but always I only find fake asian food (they can say Vietnamese, Chinese, whatever but it is all the same fake food), Kebab, McD, Kebab, perhaps some Schnitzel, Kebab, Currywurst and Kebab. Always the same. Oh, and "Pizza", of course.

Actually, I would eat a good Rahmschnitzel with Mushrooms and Bratkartoffeln... But all the OK Schnitzel shops are full, fucking, always... I guess it will be Kebab :sad:

PS: How much can one off-topic?
 
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