On Mar 3, 9:44 am, "abianc...@
my-deja.com"
my-deja.com>
wrote:> Ha very predictable RAK, I know you will say that because you are
> always so ignorant!!! No, DinTaiFung's food is 100%% Chinese food.
> They were brought to Taiwan by those people following KMT retreated to
> Taiwan in 1949. Unlike Zagat, NYT's recommendation is based on good
> food but not on decor or service. And remember the best Chinese food
> can only be found in Hong Kong, Taiwan, now also in mainland China.
> Oh well, I dont think you understand it because you have no taste on
> food at all you dont know what good food means except reading
> pricing. Good food does not have to be expensive, oh well, I dont
> think you understand it.
>
As I was responding to PeterL, the site states, "In DinTaiFung, the
average dining duration for one table is about 40 minutes. The massive
amount of orders often resulted in customers receiving the wrong
orders." Yeah, must be a Chinese thing!
And Zagat ratings are on a 30-point scale, covering food, decor,
service, and cost - it's the entire package that counts. Just like
cars - you don't want just horsepower and torque, but what about
handling (slalom)? Drifting (max angle)? Braking (brakepad distance)?
Cornering (g)? Others will care more about price, safety, elegance
etc. but people do rate things based on the whole package.
But I agree with you. Sometimes a very expensive and elegant
girlfriend (Japanese food) *can*, at least theoretically, at least in
some circumstances, be less, hmmmm, "satisfying" than a cheap
prostitute (Chinese food) where foreplay is inactivated, where
turnover is maximized --- just like where you have to rush dining in
just.....40 minutes at your DinTaiFung!
> On Mar 3, 9:24 am, "RichAsianKid"
hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mar 3, 2:45 am, "abianc...@
my-deja.com"
my-deja.com>
>> wrote:>
>>> Simpleton RAK has always told people that expenive food must be good
>>> food or good food has to be expensive. How embarrassing!!! Since RAK
>>> worships Japanese and anything related to Japan, then what Japanese
>>> say must be the bible for RAK. So maybe he can learn how to
>>> appreciate good food from his beloved Japanese. Here is one example:
>
>>> "Before long, almost all of Japan had heard about the famous Taiwanese
>>> DinTaiFung restaurant.
>>> Japanese tourists to Taipei increased, arriving like pilgrimages, to
>>> taste the authentic foods of DinTaiFung. Since then, there have always
>>> been long queues, full of Japanese tourists, waiting for their chance
>>> to taste the famous "steamed dumplings"."
>
>>> Now, RAK, here is the link to one of DinTaiFung restaurants in Taipei,
>>> its decoration is not much better than McDonnald's but DinTaiFung has
>>> become a must visit place for Japanese tourists to Taiwan. You see,
>>> good food does not have to be expensive even your beloved Japanese
>>> know it!!!
>
>
>>> BTW, RAK, DinTaiFung restaurant was on NYT's 10 best restaurants in
>>> the world in the 90s.
>
>> Few comments:
>
>> 1. First this is in Taiwan, so it's Taiwanese food, not Chinese! Even
>> if you say this is Chinese food, funny how it takes Taiwanese to do
>> things right! Mainland Chinese just suck.
>
>> 2. Tourists have different tastes. People visiting Singapore will like
>> to have local Singaporean cheap street stalls/street food which are
>> world famous, but that does NOT mean that it's haute cuisine, or that
>> you'll bring your loved one for your 25th wedding anniversary, or
>> conduct formal international business meetings over etc. Likewise with
>> Japanese tourists - in fact tourists often deliberate want to go to
>> try out local flavors, and since most tourists are from wealthier (1st
>> world) countries they want to try out third world experiences
>> (Incidentally doesn't this show that the Japanese and Taiwanese are in
>> bed together? Isn't that 'sweet'? Japanese and Taiwan (unlike China)
>> are friendlies) -- which is why countries which are favorite travel
>> destinations (quoted by yourself before) are disproportionately third
>> world, including China being one of the top 10
>
>> 3. Likewise, one of RichAsianKid's fav foods is actually the Burger
>> King Chicken Sandwich. That does not mean he'll go out on a special
>> date on Burger King or celebrate birthdays or parties there. In fact
>> he likes to brag about it because it's cheap and low class
>
>> 4. NYT is usually just one food critic's opinion, Zagat surveys in the
>> US are widely respected and broadcasted in signs outside and inside
>> some restaurants (a chalkboard often states "Zagat rates our [fill in
>> the blank] restaurant as one of top 10 in this city!") because they're
>> based on over 250,000 opinions. And Japanese gave Chinese a knockout
>> in 2006:
>
>> Japanese vs. Chinese: Among the key trends this year is the rise of
>> Japanese food, which clearly isn't just for Californians anymore. In
>> fact, sushi restaurants lead the Top Food and/or Most Popular lists in
>> Boston ( Oishii ), Charlotte ( Niko ), Chicago ( Mirai Sushi ), Dallas
>> ( Tepo ), Denver ( Sushi Den ), Las Vegas ( Nobu ), Long Island (
>> Kotobuki ), Los Angeles ( Matsuhisa and Katsu-ya ), Miami ( Matsuri ),
>> New York ( Sushi Yasuda ), Portland ( Saburo's ), San Diego (Sushi
>> Ota), San Francisco ( Sushi Ran ), Seattle ( Nishino ) and Washington
>> D.C. ( Makoto ), among others. On the other hand, *fine* Chinese
>> dining, once the leading Asian cuisine in the U.S., seems to have
>> stalled, with **not even one** Chinese restaurant reaching the Top
>> Food
>> Rankings.
>
>> 5. And yes, when it comes to price, the most expensive restaurant in
>> the US serves Japanese food, the most expensive restaurant in the
>> world is in Tokyo, serving Chinese, wooops, big typo there.... no,
>> they serve Japanese!- Hide quoted text -
>
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