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From: songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:13:10 -0500
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Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 2/8/2025 8:50 PM, songbird wrote:
>> Jill McQuown wrote:
>> ...chinese food place making eggrolls...
>>> I'm curious: how exactly do you know they're making them from scratch?
>>> Do you have a view of the kitchen?
>> 
>>    within the last few months i've been in their kitchen
>> when they've been making them.  we'd ordered a large
>> takeout meal for a family gathering and had to pick it up
>> when they were still getting ready to open.  we went in
>> the door and nobody was at the front desk as usual so we
>> had to walk back to the kitchen and get the order.  they
>> were there working around a large food prep table piled
>> full of eggroll innards.
>> 
>>    so, yes, i'd say it very likely they are still making
>> their own since the flavor and blend of ingredients has
>> not changed in the recent months (i've eat several dozen
>> of their eggrolls in the past six months).  when you've
>> been eating these for about fifty years you kinda know
>> what they're like.
>> 
>> 
>>    songbird
>
> WOW.  Thanks for that first-hand observation.  You do realize customers 
> are not usually allowed in the kitchen of restaurants due to insurance 
> liability issues.  You lucked out on that one.

  when you are on first name basis with the people who own
and run the place and you've been going there 50+ years and
it is the same family...  it makes a lot of difference.
there's zero liability issue.  just like any other person
who goes there to pick up or deliver whatever.  besides i
wasn't touching anything and i wasn't lingering.  i was in
there perhaps all of 10 seconds but you can see a lot.


  songbird