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Skriven 2008-07-12 22:26:14 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: Calamari
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 06-28-08 12:54 <=-

 NB>> When it's been out too long, yes it gets rather less nice... ;)  I
 NB>> think part of the trick is to cook it just a little short of optimum
 NB>> so that it has a little time to sit.  There may be other tricks to the
 NB>> cooking itself, too...

 RH> I don't know--it's hard to cook calamari to just uderdone as it cooks
 RH> so fast. I'd be hesitant to do it with seafood for a buffet if I were a
 RH> restaurant owner.
 
Some people are just intrepid... or foolhardy... (G)   But, maybe, if it
was being cooked in a wok, by one of the good Chinese chefs...

 NB>> There was a Chinese buffet we went to (sadly, long gone, now...) where
 NB>> the food on it was routinely better than one would get at most
 NB>> sit-down served restaurants.  Only when we went at practically closing
 NB>> time did we ever get anything there that reminded us of "normal" buffet
 NB>> offerings that had sat a little while.

 RH> They must have done a really good business on a steady basis to keep
 RH> up that kind of quality.

They did, and the cooks were absolutely superb, as well.
 
 NB>> There's one buffet here in town that we USED to go to... it changed
 NB>> management, and the stuff on the buffet went from reasonably good to
 NB>> passable to barely passable (and with more non-Asian offerings and
 NB>> non-Asian touches to the Asian dishes) to "I wonder if they even have
 NB>> an Asian cook!" nasty.  Needless to say, we don't go there any more.
 NB>> On top of it all, they raised their prices... insult to injury... ;/

 RH> Can't say as I blame you; I'd have quit it too, probably fairly fast
 RH> after it started going down hill.

Raising their prices was the last straw for us.  Up till then, we were
optimistically looking for any little sign that they might be going to
reverse their downhill trend... but that was just too much!

ttyl    neb

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