Thursday, August 20, 2009

Why is it that when a chinese restaurant has a lower grade on the health inspection, the food tastes better

Why is it that when a chinese restaurant has a lower grade on the health inspection, the food tastes better?
Many Asian, (mostly Dhinese) restaurants have either Bs or Cs on their health inspections, but the lower the grade, the better the food tastes. When I do find one that gets an A, the food's not that great tasting.
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1 :
All the dead rats and roaches make the MSG's twice the flavor! MMM <3
2 :
They like to put in their "secret Ingredient" . A little dirt goes a long way.
3 :
Maybe they re-use their grease and stuff and don't filter it out or something..that's what kfc does, makes it taste better.
4 :
cause rats are even tastier than kitty cats
5 :
Asian food has more to do with what you add to it than what it is. The meat is unimportant if the flavor comes from the herbs and spices.
6 :
hmm..that is just an odd coincidence?
7 :
sorry but you all do not really want to know their secrete ingredients and the different types of meat.. even though they all taste great. Good luck smile
8 :
I know! I find the same! In a lot of Chinese and Indian restaurants out here, I've noticed that food in a 5 star ranking restaurant is not as tasty as a restaurant that has a lower grade. One reason I can logically think of is that in the so called 'high' grade restaurants, they want to appeal to a variety of people - who can afford their food and who are of various ethnicities - so they try to make food that is liked by people of all cultures - this food is mostly bland - no special spices. But the lower grade have very specific local community they serve so they make food that appeals to the local masses and hence tastes better. Makes sense?? :)
9 :
its the unsanitary things that make the food taste better.
10 :
Yep, I agree, but you should know that those restaurants with the low grades actually deserve them. I attended a inspection one time and when the stove was moved out from the wall, there was a giant dead rat encased in grease. When we were leaving, we stopped at the front door to put on our coats and a rat ran across the top of the inspector's foot. Maybe the reason the food is better is because they may be using cat or rat meat, instead of chicken, its very common. the restaurant was in Oregon, population of 250,000 in the city and the restaurant was the most popular Chinese place in the city. Also I lived in another city a few years before that and the second best Chinese food restaurant there was closed for good, when the inspector found several dead cats in the freezer. All true my friend.
11 :
too busy cooking to be cleaning
12 :
they're too focused in making sure that the food tastes good that they forget to clean their place
13 :
It's because of one very special secret ingredient. =)........ Not that I'm against chinese food or anything, actually Chinese food is my fave food aside from Japanese. Chinese food that really taste good adds Monosodium Glutamate, MSG, which is actually found to be bad for your brain but good for taste. Yumyum =P