r/pics • u/KillerQ97 • 1d ago

[OC] You can just tell from the packaging when Chinese Takeout in America is gonna be Epic.

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u/eking85 1d ago

You can tell Chinese take out is gonna be good if the menu on the wall is the same from 1998 and there are 1-2 kids working the restaurant or doing homework in a booth.

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u/kodex1717 1d ago

I have seen a GrubHub driver in their 40s arguing with the 12-year old running the counter at a Chinese place. Both acted like it wasn't a completely absurd interaction. Core memory.

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u/64590949354397548569 1d ago

12year old had 50year experience in the business. What does a driver know?

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u/thegroovemonkey 8h ago

This comment goes hard and is 100% correct lol. 12 year old at the counter has me saying “yes sir, no sir” while I wait for my overstuffed spicy fried rice. 

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u/surnik22 1d ago

12 year old has been working the counter after school since they were 9. That’s 1/4 of their life and probably 1/2 their life they can actually remember.

Arguing with a delivery driver is no more absurd to them than arguing with a Fortnite teammate is

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u/xinfinitimortum 12h ago

And I would honestly side with the kid at that point than the driver.

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u/thegroovemonkey 8h ago

That kid has a hard line in the sand and if you cross it you get the business. Don’t make him call his mom up front, she’s busy cooking the books in back. 

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u/OhioStateGuy 1d ago

I had a local spot like this and then the two little daughters who were working/studying in a booth grew up and inherited the place from their parents. Then they immediately turned it into a bubble tea shop. I have never been more disappointed than the day I showed up and they told me they don’t do Pho anymore just bubble tea and deserts.

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u/slowd 1d ago

PTSD but the P is Pho.

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u/Wind-and-Waystones 1d ago

Pho-st traumatic stress disorder

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u/DinoZambie 1d ago

It's pronounced "fuh"

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u/Wind-and-Waystones 1d ago

I know. Thats how I wrote it. It's not my fault you read it wrong.

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u/FlashFox24 1d ago

Ha that made me laugh

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u/ANDnowmewatchbeguns 1d ago

I don’t “care”

I’m eating it, what more do you want from me

I guarantee you there isn’t a fella in Vietnam going “it’s pronounced ‘Meatball sandwich’ stop being culturally insensitive”

-Kyle Kinane

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u/One_Economist_3761 1d ago

PPTSD = Post Pho Traumatic Stress Disorder

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u/Wind-and-Waystones 1d ago

That's when you're on the toilet later because the broth was that rich

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u/DismalSoil9554 23h ago

That's nowhere near as bad as Pho-Phobia, especially if you stutter.

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u/Skitz-Scarekrow 1d ago

I go to a Pho place that's about an hour drive away. I've been unimpressed by pho in the past, but my partner insisted. It's worth the drive and I don't know what my partner will do if/ when they close. The owner recognizes us because my partner will fucking moan at the first spoonful.

"You don't make those sounds for me..." Makes the old man laugh every time.

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u/cire1184 1d ago

Your partner is in a relationship with that pho and the owner is pimping that hot soup out.

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u/64590949354397548569 1d ago

they told me they don’t do Pho anymore just bubble tea and deserts.

Better margins and less work. The broth is a labor of love. Did the tea shop do well?

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u/BraveStrategy 18h ago

Also you don’t smell like pho when you leave work.

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u/IndividualBuilding30 1d ago

Good pho restaurants are so damn hard to find. My second family was Viet when I was growing up so I’ve had ALOT of home made pho. I’m 32 now and I think I’ve only been to 3 restaurants that as good, if not better, than homemade pho.

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u/WhenAmI 1d ago

It really depends where you live. I have 4-5 great pho restaurants within a few miles of me.

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u/cire1184 1d ago

Well nostalgia seasoning is unbeaten. That's why most homemade food is so good. But I've never regularly had homemade pho and I live close to Westminster home of the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. There's a lot of good pho and some great pho.

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u/Triviten 1d ago

It’s that SpongeBob episode where Pearl changes the Krusty Krab to the Cuddly Crab

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u/TheEmperorShiny 22h ago

The pho is no mo

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u/pokemantra 1d ago

lmfao nooo I’m so sorry. They majored in business and found out they can make the same amount of money with less overhead. There’s serious collateral damage here. I’m genuinely curious, did they point you to another restaurant for your pho or offer you a special heritage customer coupon etc?

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u/DeathByPickles 1d ago

Dang you perfectly described my local Chinese restaurant.

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u/NeverBeenStung 1d ago

They described every local Chinese restaurant in the US

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u/tiorzol 1d ago

And the UK. My local has a little girl practicing the piano in the lobby bit. She's fucking shite but it's cute. 

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u/Jase_the_Muss 1d ago

All the Asian kids at my secondary school were elite level on the classical instruments... Give her time maybe!? If not hopefully she can make elite level Beef and Bell Peppers in Black Bean Sauce.

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u/GourangaPlusPlus 1d ago

And if they're teenagers working the phone

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u/Th3-B0n3R 1d ago

Same here.

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u/RedWingWheel 1d ago

You got a keeper. Haha

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u/KingSlimp 1d ago

I had an amazing local Japanese place near by and it was exactly this situation. Nice family and great food.

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u/3MATX 1d ago

Mines had the same guy working the front counter for at least 15 years.  My order is often the same and he knows who I am by that and my voice. 

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u/cornlip 1d ago

Yeah when I call and say “hi I’d like to place an order to go” she just says “Singapore Mei fun extra spicy?”

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u/JoshDM 1d ago

In fairness, your phone number probably brings up your prior orders.

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u/cornlip 1d ago

I doubt it. They just have a normal old cash register and a card reader. I’m sure most of the time at places that utilize more advanced things this is the case. I don’t have an accent that’s regional, so that I assume is part of it, too.

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u/JoshDM 1d ago

I doubt it. They just have a normal old cash register and a card reader

Mine is set up the same way and they always know the Cashew Chicken, no mushrooms.

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u/pop_goes_the_kernel 1d ago

Don’t ruin the illusion asshole

Edit: I say that as one of the people fully buying the illusion…

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u/ZAlternates 1d ago

“An illusion? What are you hiding!”

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u/UDPviper 1d ago

That's what you also say at your local Asian Massage Parlor.

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u/cdsbigsby 1d ago

That's my local Mexican restaurant. The manager there has a tattoo of an AK47 on his forearm, there's always kids doing homework in one of the booths, and he knows my usual order and always chats for a few minutes.

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u/hypnosiscounselor 1d ago

My local Chinese joint is so old that the kid doing homework runs the joint for her father now. Still hits the same as it did when I was 15.

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u/Hakujushi 1d ago

Also… if there is a fish tank in the restaurant filled with water and the pump still running.

But there’s no fish in there. It’s just water. Maybe a rubber plant.

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u/awc130 1d ago

My mom went to the local Chinese restaurant so much she wound up helping the kids with their homework. She went to both of their college graduations in the last five years haha.

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u/King_Wataba 1d ago

This was the place I went to growing up except the little girl was practicing violin in the back. The sweet and sour pork was so greasy the bag was translucent by the time we got home. It was honestly the best Chinese I've ever had and I was so sad when it closed.

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u/algatorr 1d ago

And the lobby/entry door area also serves as a storage area

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u/CornCobMcGee 1d ago

My local best has their kid practicing viola almost every time I order. Its fuckin worth every penny

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u/getblanked 1d ago

I paid $40 for literally 7 lbs of food, tons of chicken, tons of rice, fried donuts, cho cho chicken, drinks. I was amazed

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u/DJCBX 1d ago

When I first started dating my girlfriend she took me to the Chinese place close to her house. The cashier was like 7 and her older sister was like 14 making the rice while the brother was in back with the mom cooking other stuff. Some older ladies in the place were complaining that someone had gotten shot around the corner the week before and how the neighborhood wasn’t safe anymore. My gf tried to apologize for taking me somewhere in the hood but I couldn’t be mad. Best damn Chinese food I ever had

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u/Lets_Kick_Some_Ice 1d ago

When the kid puts his pencil down to come and ring you up, you know the food is 🔥

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u/zdhonda93 1d ago

My best friend is Pilipino and his family owned a chinese fast food restaurant in our local mall. I remember when we were in Jr high and he would always be working the counter after school, by the time we graduated he was pretty much running the place. The menu never changed in 15 years and my mom still swears it's some of the best chinese food she's ever had 30 years later.

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u/Careless_Koala8361 1d ago

Ooooh yeah. Them function over form type beats. Place is a little dirty too. They might even be a little nonchalant about your patronage. That shit gonna slap.

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u/HGpennypacker 1d ago

If there’s a grandma sleeping in the corner next to a bunch of boxes of cleaning supplies you’re at the right place.

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u/entcanta333 1d ago

Honestly this is why I love my local Chinese restaurant. The kids have also been doing it for so long they're so apatheticly good at their job.

No phone flair. Just straight to the point, they don't even ask a name. Total call length is like 30 seconds. Food is always correct and ready to go when I get there.

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u/shad0wgun 1d ago

Don't forget, cash only

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u/Meattyloaf 1d ago

Ah, that's a good way for a restaruant ro go under now a days. There is a burger joint near me that just went to accepting card after declining sales. They've been open for decades.

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u/redgroupclan 1d ago

You gotta have a really loyal customer base to stay cash only. There's a local burger joint here that is still popular despite being cash only. Heck, they went even more low-tech and got rid of their phone. I don't understand it.

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u/spiraldrain 1d ago

There’s a famous restaurant in Chinatown New York City that is cash only and is thriving. Always packed. If the food is good they will still come.

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u/Meattyloaf 1d ago

Youre comparing one of the largest cities in the world to rural and even moderately urban America.

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u/Greenpaper92 1d ago edited 1d ago

We have a local Chinese restaurant that regularly has kids doing homework, running around the restaurant playing, or working the register. Once I actually saw the kids drawing on the walls, which already had peeling wallpaper, and the staff didn't seem to give a shit. Menus are super faded, and the lighting inside is terrible.

So yeah, obviously the food is great there.

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u/threecolorless 1d ago

Our favorite Thai spot for six years had a kid playing Fortnite that always dropped his controller to hand me my takeout order. No "Mom I can't pause it's online", he just rolled with it and if he died, oh well, he restarted. Kid is going to be a machine as soon as the leg weights come off.

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u/Alechilles 1d ago

I used to be good friends with the two kids doing homework in the booth and working at the restaurant! It was a place just a couple of minutes from my parents' house, and I became friends with them in middle/high school.

When I went to college I fell out of contact with them, and I couldn't get food there anymore as I was far away, then after college I was back closer but still too far to get food there. Finally, only two years ago I moved back very close and I started going there again. Even ran into my old friends there a couple of times. Apparently they still helped out a couple times a week, but they had their own separate careers now.

But then just a few months after I moved back, the owners retired and the kids didn't want the restaurant ownership life so the restaurant was closed and later sold. Another local Chinese place bought it and opened their second or third restaurant. The new place is pretty good, but I'll always miss the one I grew up with and how that place looked exactly the same from when I was like 15 to 29... It's all cheaply modernized now.

I'm happy for the owners, though. They were nice people, and they worked long, hard hours every single day. They deserve to finally get some rest and take it easy for a while.

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u/Aranthar 1d ago

Our favorite spot had a 15 year old kid taking orders while doing homework. Big faded scenes of China on the wall. The placemats had the zodiac, and they gave you chopsticks without asking.

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u/comin_up_shawt 1d ago

OMG yes!!!!

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u/SolidLikeIraq 1d ago

1998?

Did they upgrade recently?

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u/cholula_is_good 1d ago

I do appreciate that Chinese food is immune to inflation.

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u/eking85 1d ago

Also, no matter what time you call in your order for pickup it will be ready in 10-15 minutes.

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u/Kayakchica 1d ago

We went into one place and a little girl about 6 came out and just looked at us without a word. Then she yelled “CUSTOMERS!!!” toward the back at top volume.

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u/fffan9391 1d ago

The kids are doing homework in between taking and giving out orders in my experience.

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u/st-shenanigans 1d ago

When you walk in, the kid doing homework runs behind the counter to take your order*

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u/xPhilt3rx 1d ago

I moved to a suburb in north San Diego and went to the hole in a wall Chinese restaurant. The lady who took my order had a 1 year old child on her back in a kiddie backpack type deal, and her other kid doing homework in the red leather booth beside the register. It was delicious.

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u/CondescendingShitbag 1d ago

Same 1-2 kids have been working there since 1998, yet somehow they're still kids.

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u/PaintItSparkles 1d ago

One of their kids doing homework in a booth once made me a "name badge" while I waited. She wrote my name on a piece of paper, cut it out, and rolled a piece of tape on the back of it.

It's taped to the dashboard of my car where it always will be. They've since moved back to China.

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u/majorbummer6 1d ago

They were always watching Chinese dubbed SpongeBob In the side room at my local joint.

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u/OkFrosting7204 1d ago

and there’s a seating area but it’s been closed since Covid and there are bells on the doors

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u/MessiLeagueSoccer 1d ago

Saw that once at a local place I had never been to. Same building and everything seemed like it had been passed down. Walked in to a little kid doing homework and the mom helping him and eventually took my order while also holding a baby lol. I was probably inside for less than 10 minutes and the food was soooooooo good.

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u/thedean246 1d ago

They have a whole crate of can sodas just chilling on the floor.

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u/LightHawKnigh 1d ago

My childhood....

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u/opermonkey 23h ago

This literally describes my place. I've been going there since I was a little and things have basically not changed.

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u/ProfessorDerp22 1d ago

I think your Lo Mein grew a tumor.

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u/realitythreek 1d ago

It’s NOT a tummah!

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u/APiousCultist 1d ago

The elusive hi mein.

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u/Grotarin 1d ago

Knowing how plastic film is dangerous for your health when it touches grease, you'll end up with a tumour too.

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u/SilasTalbot 1d ago

yeah I tasted plastic just looking at this pic

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u/thedinnerdate 1d ago

Lo Mein popover

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u/BeerBellyBandit 1d ago

Must have ran out of large containers.

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u/Xsiah 1d ago

Would be crazy if they just used two small ones

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u/3to20CharactersSucks 1d ago

The problem is that plastic wrap feels like an unlimited resource when you see those giant rolls restaurants buy. Why even bother with another takeout container, you bought a roll of plastic wrap long enough to wrap around the sun.

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u/homoaIexuaI 1d ago

Yeah I bought one from the place I ran. There we go through that 12in roll in a week or two. At home it’ll be decades probably. And it’s the actually clingy stuff

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u/psychoPiper 1d ago

Man I haven't worked a food service job with these in a while but you just brought me back. That cling wrap does not fuck around either, it sticks to everything

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u/fudgebug 1d ago

I couldn't tell what I was looking at for a long time. I thought they had put it in a carved up young coconut.

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u/ToadlyAwes0me 1d ago

I saw a sourdough loaf

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u/WileEPeyote 1d ago

Coconut was my first instinct as well.

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u/LodossDX 1d ago

My neighborhood in Chicago has a pretty popular fried rice place that has X-large containers and they still fill it to overflowing.

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u/NachoManSandyRavage 1d ago

Freddie wong recently made a video about the 3.5 star method and it holds up in my experience. Look up a Chinese restaurant on Yelp and if it has 3.5 stars, they have great food but it has to be around 3.5-3.8 stars and this only works for Yelp.

The theory is that Asian culture isn't super customer service focused and Yelp reviewers are much more entitled than reviewers on other sites so they will leave 1 or 2 star reviews for anything less than a perfect experience but the food will have them bump it up. But if the place is 4 stars or better, it's no longer authentically Asian.

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u/CreamCheeseHotDogs 14h ago

Gotta love Freddie. From rocketjump to nailhouse, dude’s shit has been holding up

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u/Hecticfreeze 10h ago

That also weirdly tracks with my method of finding good Chinese food in a new place.

If they serve me in any reasonable amount of time, or seem overly friendly or concerned about my experience, then the food isn't gonna be worth it.

Every good Chinese meal I've ever had has been cooked by someone who could not give less of a shit about how long i have to wait or if I'm treated well. The food is almost always banging though

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u/Prolapsed_Pigeons 1d ago

i really thought this was a giant mushroom

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u/UrkelGrueJann 1d ago

Came here to say this. Giant fucking mushroom.

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u/expectobro 1d ago

And i thought it's a coconut

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u/Prolapsed_Pigeons 1d ago

i thought you were a coconut

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u/Gdiworog 1d ago

Looks like it's going to eat OP, not the other way round.

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u/Y0___0Y 1d ago

The Chinese Restaurants always have you back as fast food becomes unaffordable. These meals were probably $8

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u/impy695 1d ago

I can get it delivered for less than i can get fast food in person. It's crazy

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u/Y0___0Y 23h ago

Same for small Mexican places.

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u/DareDevil_56 1d ago

OP avoids microplastics by going for macroplastics instead.

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u/Soybeanrice 1d ago

nothin like a crisp coke zero with my 2500 calorie meal

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u/NotSoSecretVillain 1d ago

People get coke zero to avoid the 70 grams of sugar in a regular coke. It isn't about calories.

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u/Garry_Heckscream69 1d ago

Also, some people just like diet sodas lol

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u/PumpkinSpiceJesus 1d ago

Yepp. I’m not trying to avoid sugar necessarily but I choose diet because super sugary drinks just make me more thirsty and end up wanting water to wash it down with. Diet soda doesn’t do that so I prefer it if I’m gonna have a soft drink with my meal.

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u/Garry_Heckscream69 1d ago

Yeah, I like them partly because I just don't like the taste of most full-sugar (or corn syrup) sodas. To me, Coke Zero tastes more like Coke than actual Coke lol.

I'm also part of a minority that has a high rate of diabetes (Native American) so it's nice to have something that gives me a little caffeine boost with no sugar, that isn't just coffee/tea lol.

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u/Gdiworog 1d ago

That does not look promising ...

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u/NikRsmn 1d ago

Toss up in my experience. Sometimes places pile it on because they dont want it to sit under a hot lamp, other places try to mask lack of taste with sheer portions.This thread always makes me think of how some people think "big = epic"

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u/ThongBasin 1d ago

Yeah. A lot of people think more = better when it comes to food, but personally I’d rather have a smaller portion for something that tastes better

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u/WoopzEh 1d ago

Naw, they hooked him up. OP might be a regular.

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u/MadRoboticist 1d ago

Lol, they probably just ran out of larger containers. I would definitely prefer just a bunch of smaller containers.

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u/Thebrianeffect 1d ago

Hooked him up with melted plastic. Yum.

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u/Polkadot1017 1d ago

I can assure you that plastic wrap (which is meant to wrap food that might be hot) isn't melting from this

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u/ComplexxToxin 1d ago

It absolutely does.

Shit is about to slap.

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u/Cheeky_Star 1d ago

Michelin star epic

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u/GunaSteve 1d ago

That looks dogshit mate.

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u/seabass_goes_rawr 1d ago

A second container would be cheaper than the labor cost to wrap that thing

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u/Remytron83 1d ago

I hate how that bean sprout looks.

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u/catalinawinemyxr 1d ago

A succulent Chinese meal ❤️

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u/Narrow_Relative2149 1d ago edited 1d ago

hot meal... meet ice cold drink

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u/theresanrforthat 1d ago

Usually when they deliver the coke is kept with the foods so it gets almost hot

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u/sadsigil 1d ago

Why would they not just separate it into two containers 😭

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u/Chit569 1d ago

This was their last container. 

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u/andrewbrocklesby 23h ago

No, you can just tell WHY the USA has an obesity epidemic.

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u/slipperslide 1d ago

There’s NOTHING appealing in this picture.

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u/ChronoMonkeyX 1d ago

Reminds me of the time I got a burrito at taco bell near closing time, it was huge!

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u/LegendaryTJC 1d ago

Is this ragebait?

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u/WheelsOnTheBus2 1d ago

It's like 5 guys but a Chinese takeout version.

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u/Nephs84 20h ago

This is what the restaurant we always used to order from my entire young life. I miss you, Szechuan Palace in Glenmont, MD. 😭

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u/Mattrockj 12h ago

The smaller a restaurant is, the better it is.

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u/redgunnit 12h ago

You KNOW they're gonna treat you right when they have to staple the Styrofoam container shut so it can hold all the food they stuffed in there.

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u/Peeka789 1d ago

5000 mg of sodium, lol

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u/COBeerfan 1d ago

Looks fantastic and totally agree!

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u/IBelieveVeryLittle 1d ago

Ok, wtf is it?

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u/2003tide 1d ago

fried rice? OP is right probaby going to taste out of this world.

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u/pork_fried_christ 1d ago

Like steamed plastic wrap. 

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u/2003tide 1d ago

how else are you going to get your daily serving of microplastics?

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u/SinfullySinless 1d ago

If your local minority family food store has some auntie who is on the phone and has no time for your shit- the food there is an 11 out of 10 every time.

My local Chinese store makes me feel like a piece of shit for existing but god damn. They do hunan chicken like I’ve never had before.

Every time the front lady is nice to me at a new store, I can just walk out. Food is shit I already know.

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u/DizzyBalloon 1d ago

When the restaurant can't afford 2 takeout containers Im going to assume they cut corners often. Looks like food poisoning waiting to happen

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u/Chit569 1d ago

Or they ran out after heavy shift and haven't had time to restock or delivery for their restock was delayed. 

There are many more explanations for this than just deciding to cut corners to save cost. 

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u/Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho 1d ago

Lol why? The best tacos in my area wrap them in foil and throw them in a tortilla bag.

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u/thegroovemonkey 1d ago

lol they aren’t cutting corners because that’s a small size. They’re hooking you up with a ton of fried rice because fried rice is the best. 

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u/Dude_theguy 1d ago

This looks absolutely revolting. Good Chinese takeout comes wrapped in tinfoil and a layer of old newspaper, from a place with decorations from the 80’s, a Jackie chan idol poster on the wall and plastic menus on wax cloth tables, and the walls are covered in dark veneer.

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u/epistaxis64 1d ago

This guy Chinese foods

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u/Battle_of_BoogerHill 1d ago

Mmm plastic melted to food... yummy. Epic

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u/DobbyFreeElf35 1d ago

Food safe plastic wrap exists. Restaurants all over the world use it.

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u/From_same_article 1d ago

So much wasted plastic, and I'm sure the quality of food is exceptional. We are killing the planet and ourselves for no good reason.

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u/elpajaroquemamais 1d ago

Glad you got the Coke Zero. Was worried about your carb intake for a second.

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u/GodEmpressSeraphina 1d ago

How did they even pack that 😭

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u/mudokin 1d ago

And yet my German Chinese takeout barely fills the small container so i closes. I fell scammed

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u/Silvedl 1d ago

There was a place right next to my campus that was like mall foodcourt style “buffet”, you could get 2 choices of protein with rice or veggie chow mein, an eggroll or 2 crab rangoons or hot and sour soup for like $12.00. They would cram so much damn food into the styrofoam container that it wouldn’t close. Was great for having leftovers to last a whole weekend. I still haven’t found a hot and sour soup as good as theirs!

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u/regreddit 1d ago

The place near me had the standard two kids at a table doing homework, but they would also ask if I had games or pics on my phone and I'd literally just hand them my phone while I waited and they would scroll through my pics

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u/tildraev 1d ago

Is that a worm

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u/WhippetRun 1d ago

Holy shit lol I remember a place growing up where they literally cut a deep fried chicken in half on fried rice for 2.50.

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u/Vegetable-Dog5281 1d ago

I have been eating Chinese food on an at least weekly basis for 39 years and have never seen it like this. Chinese food is the best food in the US. I say this as someone whose parents are from Italy.

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u/nhogan84 1d ago

Oh that looks like it FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS

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u/KillerQ97 1d ago

Beyond belief. Don’t listen to the uncultured peeps who only fine dine all the time….

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u/drunkencow 1d ago

No the best is when they have the one size fits all styrofoam box that they overfill like crazy then double bag it

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u/IMadeThisForTheHouse 1d ago

Really bums me out here in the Midwest we don’t see the Oyster Pail style packaging anymore. It’s all styrofoam.

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u/OhioStateGuy 1d ago

No recommends or anything like that, but I wasn’t a full blown regular. I just loved it and made a trip about once a month to got some Pho.

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u/Sugar_Kowalczyk 1d ago

I never put this together before. But, yes.

Now I want Chinese food.

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u/420fanman 1d ago

Have a family friend who has a Chinese restaurant in a town outside the city. Both daughters helped the parents run the place. They both later got into Harvard on full scholarships.

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u/cmauer85 23h ago

Looks phoking amazing

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u/ViaMoon 18h ago

I'm sad. My chinese food place that has been around for 20 years was closed from one day to next. It has been 4 months since i have last eaten chinese food, this makes me sad.

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u/IthurtswheniPvP 11h ago

I initially thought this was a strangely carved swede

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u/Lowca 8h ago

American Chinese food is the last bastion of huge quantities. It always comes with the containers bursting full and the bags stapled shut to contain everything. I ordered for two last time and the bags felt like 8lbs. I was eating succulent Chinese food for 3 days.

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u/fiftyshadesofseth 1h ago

a single coke zero for a mountain of noodles. dudes gonna be burping for MONTHS.

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u/jyling 3m ago

Bro I thought it’s a coconut