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MSG is good. it does make you a bit thirsty after tho. but we still love it and my dad insists on using it whenever he cooks any sort of meat
 
Chinese chicken wings are cooked by human chef.
Fast food chicken wings are cooked by robot chef.
 
I love "Chinese" food (the fatty take-out we get in the states) as much as anyone else, but I don't like their wings better than KFC extra crispy.
 
there used to be a place on halsted in chicago called chen's that had the best wings EVAR and i know my chicken wings. they either moved or closed down. i almost lost my grip on sanity back then, but i've moved on... i think..
 
Boy these chinese are really a threat -- even their chicken wings taste better :Q

BTW Ribbon, isn't the taste the MSG imparts what the Japanese refer to as umami?
 
Somewhat fresh(not stored in a freezer for months) & just cooked.
The place I go to uses a bit of vinegar too. 🙂
 
Because KFC doesn't use real chicken anymore. That's why they had to change their name from Kentucky Fried Chicken. 😉

The chinese still use real chicken.
 
The best wings around here are from combination bar/restaurants. One place is called Spicoli's and the other one is called Rock Bottom.
 
Weird Al Yankovic

Cats In The Kettle
(Sung to the toon of Cats in the Craddle)

by Unknown

DId you ever think when you eat chinese
It ain't pork or chicken but a fat siamese?
Yet the food tastes great so you don't complain
But that's not chicken in your chicken chow mein
Seems to me I ordered sweet and sour pork
But Garfield's on my fork
He's purrin' here on my fork

There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place that I eat every day at noon
They can feed you cat and you'll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough boys
They fry it real crisp in dough.

Chow Lin asked if I wanted more
As he was diallin' up his buddy at the old pet store
I said "Not today, I lost my appetite"
There's two cats in my belly and they want to fight.

I was suckin on a roll-aid and a tums or two
When I swear I heard it mew boy
And that is when I knew

There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I gotta stop eating there at noon
They say that it's beef or fish or pork
But it's purrin there on my fork
There's a hairball on my fork

Edit: And where did you hear we could not use MSG in the US? The local Peking place I eat at serves it standard with just about everything. They do offer the option of MSG free but it is definatly served in the US.
 
they prob used recycled oil/pig oil to deeep fry the chickens. The oil has probably been used like 100 times frying various different things, so that's why tehre's so much 'robust' taste. personally i'm chinese and i like KFC more than the ones from 'chinese restaurants'. Real chinese people never order wings anyway.

Sorry to say this, but if you go into one fo those restaurants with those huge pictures of food items on the wall, chances aren't u aren't going to be eating chinese food. Wings, and those things are catered towards americans. it's like eating taco bell and thinking taht's mexican food.
 
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