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The best thing about meetings is that they sometimes come with the option of free food. Unfortunately for me, today this free food came in the form of a Chinese buffet. I love me some Chinese food, and I love me some buffet. One would think that bringing these 2 good things together would be like adding chocolate and peanut butter together. For many people this is the case. For me, it is not so much the case.
The Chinese restaurants that work for me tend to be a little nicer food. Good quality meat, home-made sauces from fresh ingredients, etc… Chinese buffets, on the other hand, tend to be a little lower on the quality scale. You make up for the quality with the volume. They crank this food out in huge vats of pre-processed ingredients and meat of marginal quality. This typically means that there are more preservatives in the food. The preservative in question that makes buffets a bad thing for me is good old MSG. Monosodium Glutamate. This is both a preservative and a “flavor enhancer.”
For me, the truckloads of MSG, which are present and used in most Chinese buffets cause massive headaches. I am 4 Tylenols to the wind right now, and still can feel the throbbing pressure in my forehead. So, not much else to write about today; I am battling a raging chemical induced headache.
To recap
The first course at Chinese buffets should always consist of purely fried food smothered in sweet and sour sauce
It is the way of things
One of the guys at lunch came back with a plate of fruit
Freak
Man, my head hurts
The Chinese restaurants that work for me tend to be a little nicer food. Good quality meat, home-made sauces from fresh ingredients, etc… Chinese buffets, on the other hand, tend to be a little lower on the quality scale. You make up for the quality with the volume. They crank this food out in huge vats of pre-processed ingredients and meat of marginal quality. This typically means that there are more preservatives in the food. The preservative in question that makes buffets a bad thing for me is good old MSG. Monosodium Glutamate. This is both a preservative and a “flavor enhancer.”
For me, the truckloads of MSG, which are present and used in most Chinese buffets cause massive headaches. I am 4 Tylenols to the wind right now, and still can feel the throbbing pressure in my forehead. So, not much else to write about today; I am battling a raging chemical induced headache.
To recap
The first course at Chinese buffets should always consist of purely fried food smothered in sweet and sour sauce
It is the way of things
One of the guys at lunch came back with a plate of fruit
Freak
Man, my head hurts
10 Comments:
pfft, the best thing about meetings are the strippers.
Brando:
Damn straight
Fruit!? How improper!
I always wonder why chicken balls are so big. They never look that big at the farm.
I had chinese two nights ago and had a horrible headache...of course the sign at the resturant said....
"NO MSG".
Yeah right f**kers!
peefer:
Yeah, the fruit thing freaked me out.
kimmyk:
I knew before I was even finished with my second helping of seasame chicken. Although this place did not have a "No MSG" sign posted.
well, I evidently have a lot to learn yet (as do we all, of course, but my awaiting lot of learning seems somewhat bulkier than the rest): for instance, all I can think of when confronted with "NO MSG" is "No Message", which doesn't seem to bear any relation to headaches and oversized chicken balls. Would any of you kindly souls care to enlighten me?
I can only do chinese food about once a month. blech.
Jude:
No "MSG" means that the food vendor in question supposedly does not add MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)to their food to "enhance the flavor of the meat."
For many people, such as myself, MSG causes nasty headaches. Simply for me, if it could cause a headache, it will with me.
NYM:
That is a shame really, with all those wonderful ethnic enclaves in NY. I love me some Chinese food as well, but I have to be very judicious about eating it. We tend to make a bunch of faux Chinses food at home. It soothes the cravings.
i totally agree with you on this one, on the outside the buffet looks and smells great but when you actually eat it it taste of nothing coated in deep fat frying oil. nothing beats a high end Chinese resturant.
peachy,
you speak, er type, sooth.
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