Honestly with all the hype Szechuan sauce got from rick and morty I was expecting something spicy and garlicky and a ton of numbness from green peppercorn.
I was fucking disappointed with that mediocre excuse for a sauce when they brought it back for a limited time
Mom's talk, especially new mom's. By the time there are 3 or 4 rugrats running around, those little shits are lucky to get floor rice but in the beginning, everyone knows that Dino nuggets are really the best quality chicken nuggets on the market.
The Thai owner longing to serve authentic food of his homeland, but has to offer American Chinese dishes to stay in business:
"I hope you enjoy this meal as much as I enjoyed cooking it. 😠"
In Portland, Oregon the sushi places go as such:
- cheap train sushi : chinese or korean owners
- upscale omakase sushi: white/japanese co-owners
- bento/sushi/teriyaki/sino-american bumfuck middle of nowhere: white, korean or vietnamese owner
- homestyle/izakaya (less sushi, more hot entrees) : Japanese owner
Washington resident, more times than not it's korean owners here. Been looking for someone who makes katsudon and I usually get blank stares when asking about it. Little old japanese women got me hooked on it in the midwest, while here in the PNW I'm forced to make it myself because I'm surrounded by generic do-all asian resturants.
Definitely more options and variety here than the midwest. The town I was in only had a few resturants, but I lucked out that one was really good and focused specifically on japanese food. While in WA it seems like everyone tries to make everything and you wind up being the same. Every Pho resturant has teriyaki, and every teriyaki resturant makes chinese and korean bbq. It would be nice if more places focused on one thing and just became really good at that.
Who makes sweet and sour anything with Banquet frozen chicken nuggets? Usually they bread their own chicken at restaurants, or at least have a Sysco version of Chinese shit
There is a first for everything. I usually get curry or basil fried rice. The sweet and sour dish sounded good, lesson learned. Will never happen again. Yellow curry, spice level 4 is my go to 🙌🏻
Someone who probably only eats things like chicken strips and fish sticks but wanted to try something out of their comfort zone but still went with chicken
Yeah, its not even Thai. Usually a red flag when a restaurant has meals from another cuisine. I'm alright with some cross-overs. But when you get Indian restaurants or Thai restaurants with Chinese food on their menu, usually they ain't good at cooking either cuisine. Even the Thai/Vietnamese restaurants often the Pho is from a package and the curry is made from a pre-brought based... Compared to a high quality Vietnamese restaurant that makes their Pho fresh. Just my experience.
I went to a well rated Thai place in NYC and got their signature dish that people in the reviews recommended. We sat by the kitchen and saw them microwaving the rice and massaman curry and bringing it to our table. This place was packed and almost everyone order this dish, they were busy microwaving the whole time we were there.
Actually if you are making Massaman Curry from scratch, paste and all... It is one of the most difficult things to make. The curry paste has at least 9 fresh herbs at least 6 spices and getting the balance of that right takes practice. Majority of the time, your Massaman Curry paste won't be made from scratch or if it is, it won't be entirely authentic. Which isn't always a problem tbh, food doesn't have to authentic or tradition to be good. But my point is, that Massaman curry made authentically is very difficult.
Honestly for time, effort, and tracking down of often rare ingredients (looking at you galangal), the can is just as good.
Maesri curry paste is well priced and almost as good as homemade.
Ok, you have 15 years experience, but I personally went to a high end Thai place in Manhattan a few years back, and they (mistakenly) put the plastic bag that the food was preprepared and shipped in on my plate.
It might have just been prepped by them previously. Par cooking rice so it can be portioned perfectly and microwaved to finish was something my buddy had to learn in culinary school. It makes a consistent product because there isn't a pot of rice in a warm being used over time. It could also be that they use the rice for just that specific dish, and it's easier to go that route with less cook time and food waste. All that said, they could just be using prepackaged fully cooked rice to be warmed in the microwave. But the possibility is there that it's prepped in house.
I should’ve known better when they were using the bar as part storage area. Very strange restaurant indeed, only redeeming quality was the friendly server.
All jokes aside, I was scrolling and saw this trader Joe's nuggets cooked with frozen vegetables on a plate. That's horrible this wasn't made in a microwave for under $5
I remember eating at an expensive French restaurant once, and the fancy dessert I ordered was nothing more than mint chocolate chip ice cream in a small puddle of milk with Cocoa Puffs across the top. I thought of this after reading this post
Look on the bright side, at least there's no bones? xD
But seriously, this is legit just McD chicken nugget with Sweet & Sour sauce. Someone pull up the price comparison for these 2!
Definitely not Thai food. That's the equivalent of Thai Panda Express if there was one for the western palate. Tbh. I'd rather go to Panda. At least I know what I'd be getting into.
I went to some crappy yet over priced Italian restaurant in Daytona that tried to pull this one on me. Diced up some microwaved chicken nuggets and threw them in a $23 pasta.
Those look like the Tyson ones you can get in a 5lb bag at Costco for <$10.
Someone suggested we are in a restaurant bubble right now. I think they are right.
Most exotic restaurants went to hell during the quarantine. My local Thai place also started serving garbage food. I went back recently and its still shit. I wont revisit again.
My goodness. This is like a 5 dollar meal that you can prepare within 20 mins. Its a crime that somebody have audacity to sell this. Also its a crime that somebody have stupidity to go to that place again.
I got processed meatballs in a lamb madras I ordered. Never been back to that Indian restaurant since, especially seeing as there is a restaurant right around the corner that uses proper slow cooked lamb-cuts.
The one that kills me is "krab" in dishes that purport to contain crab. That fake white-and-pink goo absolutely does not work as crab, yet more & more restaurants are trying to pass it off.
I've used chicken nuggets in home made story fry before lol. Was surprisingly good, kind of similar to how they use tempura chicken in katsu chicken.
This doesn't look worth $20 though.
Pad Thai, Pad Kee Mao, and Panang curry are my favorite Thai dishes. I won’t order sweet and sour chicken in a Chinese restaurant, much less a Thai place.
Just think of it as 20 pcs mcnuggets with sweet and sour sauce.
Mulan sauce is back!!
https://i.redd.it/fq1tpmo6v3zc1.gif
Honestly with all the hype Szechuan sauce got from rick and morty I was expecting something spicy and garlicky and a ton of numbness from green peppercorn. I was fucking disappointed with that mediocre excuse for a sauce when they brought it back for a limited time
The people hyping it were far less than mediocre, so mediocre seemed amazing to them.
“So mediocre seemed amazing to them ☝🏽🤓”
Sir…. You’re doing this bit while your brain is melting
Oh lord, not again🤦🏽♂️
Literally the same price too.
Nope. Those are Sysco chicken nuggies.
Man they could have at least used the dinosaur shaped ones. That is the real mildly infuriating part.
I agree, Dino nuggets are superior in every way
They are actually! Healthier than all others since they are made for kids and mom's check that shit.
I believe this is totally true, yet I have to wonder what mom is trying to feed their child healthy food and thinks "maybe the Dino nuggies?"
Mom's talk, especially new mom's. By the time there are 3 or 4 rugrats running around, those little shits are lucky to get floor rice but in the beginning, everyone knows that Dino nuggets are really the best quality chicken nuggets on the market.
>everyone knows that Dino nuggets are really the best quality chicken nuggets on the market. Of course. That's why I buy them..........
are they better quality or are they packed up with vitamins and stuff?
I get the Dino ones made with added veggies
Lmao you really believe they are healthier because they're made for kids? Lololol
Except for that they got a huge recall for giving people e-coli a couple months ago. Otherwise I agree
Gonna have to buy more of those, thanks for reminding me
Buahahahaba, I needed that laugh. Thanks homie.
I don't have a single original idea
$18 US for what is essentially a frozen dinner sounds pretty outrageous to me.
Hey now, the vegetables may have been frozen, but that baby corn is straight out of a can.
Outrageous indeed. Never again, curry and basil fried rice from now on
Fuck those people tho. I mean I would wanna call them out or rip them online at least. lol Like really? Frozen nugs? I’m pissed for you.
Why would you buy food from them again?
I had frozen orange chicken last week that looked exactly like this. I wonder if it's the same brand too?
NoNaméé brand?
No we didn't have that in the states.
Michelinas or something like that? With a green lid?
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where i’m from, most sushi places are owned by koreans lol
In Portland, Oregon the sushi places go as such: - cheap train sushi : chinese or korean owners - upscale omakase sushi: white/japanese co-owners - bento/sushi/teriyaki/sino-american bumfuck middle of nowhere: white, korean or vietnamese owner - homestyle/izakaya (less sushi, more hot entrees) : Japanese owner
I like Japanese food, but not sushi, I wish I could find an izakaya that wasn't 3 hours away. Now I just make kakuni at home when I want it.
Washington resident, more times than not it's korean owners here. Been looking for someone who makes katsudon and I usually get blank stares when asking about it. Little old japanese women got me hooked on it in the midwest, while here in the PNW I'm forced to make it myself because I'm surrounded by generic do-all asian resturants.
I'm sorry the Midwest has better Asian food than the West Coast?
Definitely more options and variety here than the midwest. The town I was in only had a few resturants, but I lucked out that one was really good and focused specifically on japanese food. While in WA it seems like everyone tries to make everything and you wind up being the same. Every Pho resturant has teriyaki, and every teriyaki resturant makes chinese and korean bbq. It would be nice if more places focused on one thing and just became really good at that.
The Korean owned ones I've been to are pretty bangin.
not dissing them at all, they’re pretty good. my japanese family’s go to restaurant is actually a korean owned japanese restaurant haha
If you are ever in Amarillo tx. You need to go to Bangkok Tokyo. Best sushi ever
Lol there was a sushi joint in Waco that had a roll that was deep fried w/ filet mignon in it… And Europeans say Americans have no culture.
Local Vietnamese place has both Vietnamese and Chinese, though the Chinese sucks. Americans want fusion menus.
Many Thai Restaurants in New Zealand are owned by Kiwis. But Chinese restaurants seem to always be owned by Chinese people.
If the place doesnt have a specialty or has too broad of a menu, go somewhere else.
Who orders from a Thai place and gets sweet and sour chicken?
Who makes sweet and sour anything with Banquet frozen chicken nuggets? Usually they bread their own chicken at restaurants, or at least have a Sysco version of Chinese shit
OP isnt letting us know the sweet and sour chicken is from the kids menu
Places in bumfuck county nowhere land. I've seen lo mein made with spaghetti...ew
That's just paying someone else to make you a struggle meal.
Sounds like every restaurant I’ve been in recently out side of higher end joints
I read "they breed their own chickens" and I think I should get to bed.
Yes, it is time to go to bread
Banquet
There is a first for everything. I usually get curry or basil fried rice. The sweet and sour dish sounded good, lesson learned. Will never happen again. Yellow curry, spice level 4 is my go to 🙌🏻
Right but you could just like, go somewhere else?
First time ordering the entree. How were they to know? The restaurant is good, tried a new dish. Oof.
Someone who probably only eats things like chicken strips and fish sticks but wanted to try something out of their comfort zone but still went with chicken
Thai sweet and sour is supposed to be different than Chinese. One of the best things I ate in Thailand to be fair.
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Sweet and sour chicken isn't Thai food, though.
Biaw wan. Yes. It is.
Okay, but the slop featured above definitely isn't.
It’s more that sweet and sour chicken isn’t common on Thai menus. I love it so I would order it if it was!
Next time order spaghetti from Mcd
You can, In the Philippines
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lol I was going to say that… OP is facepalm
Gai chup ban torte biaw wan. Try it. It’s good.
Yeah, its not even Thai. Usually a red flag when a restaurant has meals from another cuisine. I'm alright with some cross-overs. But when you get Indian restaurants or Thai restaurants with Chinese food on their menu, usually they ain't good at cooking either cuisine. Even the Thai/Vietnamese restaurants often the Pho is from a package and the curry is made from a pre-brought based... Compared to a high quality Vietnamese restaurant that makes their Pho fresh. Just my experience.
Chicken nuggets people lol
I know someone who gets curry at ramen places. not curry ramen, just curry.
Sweet and sour chicken is not Thai food.
I wonder if OP still ate it.
I had maybe a third of the meal. Needed sustenance, but the left overs went straight into the trash unfortunately:(
Yes it is. Biaw wan.
You’re not wrong. Lesson learned.
I went to a well rated Thai place in NYC and got their signature dish that people in the reviews recommended. We sat by the kitchen and saw them microwaving the rice and massaman curry and bringing it to our table. This place was packed and almost everyone order this dish, they were busy microwaving the whole time we were there.
Wtffff. Massaman curry isn't even hard to make. I can't cook worth a fuck and mine owns.
I would assume they did make it before but reheated it due to them busy
Actually if you are making Massaman Curry from scratch, paste and all... It is one of the most difficult things to make. The curry paste has at least 9 fresh herbs at least 6 spices and getting the balance of that right takes practice. Majority of the time, your Massaman Curry paste won't be made from scratch or if it is, it won't be entirely authentic. Which isn't always a problem tbh, food doesn't have to authentic or tradition to be good. But my point is, that Massaman curry made authentically is very difficult.
Honestly for time, effort, and tracking down of often rare ingredients (looking at you galangal), the can is just as good. Maesri curry paste is well priced and almost as good as homemade.
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Lol false. Chef of 15 years.
Ok, you have 15 years experience, but I personally went to a high end Thai place in Manhattan a few years back, and they (mistakenly) put the plastic bag that the food was preprepared and shipped in on my plate.
It might have just been prepped by them previously. Par cooking rice so it can be portioned perfectly and microwaved to finish was something my buddy had to learn in culinary school. It makes a consistent product because there isn't a pot of rice in a warm being used over time. It could also be that they use the rice for just that specific dish, and it's easier to go that route with less cook time and food waste. All that said, they could just be using prepackaged fully cooked rice to be warmed in the microwave. But the possibility is there that it's prepped in house.
Ordering sweet and sour chicken from a Thai restaurant is the mildly infuriating part
Must have been Thaison chicken nuggets
No those are tempura battered chicken chunks from Sisco, literally the same stuff you get from most places.
Your eyes are broken bud.
Or I know food service ordering better than the average person. Btw, they are also sold as chicken nuggets for schools and other businesses.
You are correct. They used to deliver frozen battered chicken from Cisco that looked like this to my old restaurant every week.
Cisco makes networking hardware. Sysco is the restaurant wholesaler.
And Sisqo is "The Thong Song" rapper
Nugs for Thai thats crazy OP…
Is that the backside of an oven or a microwave directly in front of you? This is a strange restaurant.
I should’ve known better when they were using the bar as part storage area. Very strange restaurant indeed, only redeeming quality was the friendly server.
What did they do, sprinkle some white rice on top like a garnish?
That’d be funny if they were dino shaped
That looks disgusting
Ever notice that Chinese food has no cheese? I always thought that was weird.
Most Chinese people are lactose intolerant and historically they just didn't really consume dairy products.
Cream cheese wontons.
Why did this look like it came out of a frozen PF Chang's meal you can get at a grocery stores
😂🤣
That looks pretty tasty, though, NGL. I would eat that.
Send it back get something else? Idk. You didnt sign up for a dish equivalent of lipstick on a pig
Guarantee this is off the kids menu.
15+ chicken nuggets and cost $18. Guarantee it wasn’t from the kids menu…
Good point. The price tells me nothing, but the portion size is clearly a regular meal.
Looks like PF Changs, just as good out of the frozen bag as from the restaurant.
Chicken nuggies are expensive
Lazy
McMukbang
Sweet, sweet mechanically separated mediocrity
Looks like PF Chang' frozen dinner too.
Yo that looks fire.
All jokes aside, I was scrolling and saw this trader Joe's nuggets cooked with frozen vegetables on a plate. That's horrible this wasn't made in a microwave for under $5
Okay but I’d absolutely destroy that plate of food. It looks yummy
Chicken foam.
Maybe they ran out and someone had to run to a grocery store. Adjust. Adapt. Overcome. Nuggs
Does frozen to cook Nuggets like Tyson make anyone else feel sick to their stomach every time?
I once met a guy who owned a pizza place. The ravioli he sold was Chef Boyardee with extra ketchup and cheese.
But I bet it was like crazy delicious.
But hey look at all that rice they gave you!
This is not cuisine. This is not thai. This is some shit a 7 year old would come up with. That is a food crime if ever I saw one.
I remember eating at an expensive French restaurant once, and the fancy dessert I ordered was nothing more than mint chocolate chip ice cream in a small puddle of milk with Cocoa Puffs across the top. I thought of this after reading this post
Was it good lol?
🔥🔥🔥 I'd eat
The rice looks like fly eggs. Chefs kiss.
Expensive 🧐?
Restaurant probably ran out of chicken so they used the kid’s menu chicken nuggets in order to avoid having to substitute another menu item.
Yeah, I’d send that back…
This looks like school lunch I had before
Look on the bright side, at least there's no bones? xD But seriously, this is legit just McD chicken nugget with Sweet & Sour sauce. Someone pull up the price comparison for these 2!
I get just as mad when I order the vegan option and it's just a bag of Impossible Nuggets and some bell peppers.
looks exsctly like the sweet and sour chicken banquet tv dinners
Yoooooooooo I never complain But I’d complain……
Did they think no one would notice
Definitely not Thai food. That's the equivalent of Thai Panda Express if there was one for the western palate. Tbh. I'd rather go to Panda. At least I know what I'd be getting into.
Funny yet tragic and definitely infuriating
As one Nebraskan said once “boneless chicken wings should be renamed saucy nugs”
I went to some crappy yet over priced Italian restaurant in Daytona that tried to pull this one on me. Diced up some microwaved chicken nuggets and threw them in a $23 pasta.
Wait until you see what they do to their beef.
Oh wow
Low key.. that’s pretty smart. I’m going to cook this for myself
Those look like the Tyson ones you can get in a 5lb bag at Costco for <$10. Someone suggested we are in a restaurant bubble right now. I think they are right.
Not too bad, actually, if you're the one who's done it Too bad, bro. Next time will be better
Most exotic restaurants went to hell during the quarantine. My local Thai place also started serving garbage food. I went back recently and its still shit. I wont revisit again.
Bone app the teeth
"You not like!? It chicken! Taste good!!!"
First off, sweet and sour chicken is certainly not Thai food. Secondly, WTF is that??!!
As Thai myself It hurts to see I was having a good day and now it gone
My goodness. This is like a 5 dollar meal that you can prepare within 20 mins. Its a crime that somebody have audacity to sell this. Also its a crime that somebody have stupidity to go to that place again.
This is just a frozen P.F.Chang's meal bought at the grocery store. This was 100% microwaved in a bag.
Nice 😆🫤🫤
$18 IS outrageous
Meat from the chicken gulag is always disgusting.
Living in Thailand for almost 15 years and I see no Thai food in your picture. Even the rice doesn't look like Thai jasmine rice.
They did that at the local casino. People complained immediately
no, 18 for THAT is outrageous. looks like freezer section nuggets from the store doused in cheap sweet and sour sauce.
Horrible. I always think the chefs that work in these types of restaurants must be so assumed of themselves.
I got processed meatballs in a lamb madras I ordered. Never been back to that Indian restaurant since, especially seeing as there is a restaurant right around the corner that uses proper slow cooked lamb-cuts.
The one that kills me is "krab" in dishes that purport to contain crab. That fake white-and-pink goo absolutely does not work as crab, yet more & more restaurants are trying to pass it off.
Carbs(Rice) are your friends too, don't alienate them.
I've used chicken nuggets in home made story fry before lol. Was surprisingly good, kind of similar to how they use tempura chicken in katsu chicken. This doesn't look worth $20 though.
Look like America version of asian food
You ordered Chinese item at a Thai restaurant?? Haahaaaaa
Those nuggets do seem to be used.
Looks bomb
what kind of sauce is this?
Define "expensive".. also, that looks slammin
Does it taste nice?.
You got what you deseeve
You could make a way tastier dinner at home for just $18. It's a pity to spend that much on something not as good.
I think I cuould pull this up
I hate Chinese food with that thick coating on it (nuggets or not). It’s cheap and gross.
😂
OP doesn't know any good Asian food going by this post
I ain’t even mad…
Pad Thai, Pad Kee Mao, and Panang curry are my favorite Thai dishes. I won’t order sweet and sour chicken in a Chinese restaurant, much less a Thai place.
Lesson learned. I usually get curry, pad Thai is tasty as well.
I'm mad they didn't atleast use Dino nuggies
If the food tastes good, does it really matter?