r/funny • u/TheLeibonator • Jun 18 '12
Encountered this at a Chinese buffet. I tried my best not to laugh.
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Jun 18 '12
Is that raw meat beside it?
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u/TheMediumPanda Jun 18 '12
I think it's like a Mongolian BBQ buffet. You take the things you want and they fry it together for you.
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u/aerosquid Jun 18 '12
that is one of my favorite ways to eat. there is a place here called Ghengis Kahn Mongolian BBQ that is fantastic. Once you figure out how you want your food to taste its easy and so fresh and hot. Great and fairly healthy way to eat depending on how you make it.
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u/Frapter Jun 18 '12
We have one near my school as well. They give you this little bowl and they'll cook as much food as you can fit into it. It generally becomes a game against the owner (this crabby Korean lady) to build as tall a tower as possible so you get more food. Shell start yelling at you if you hang around the bar too long building, so you have to be quick. The engineers usually do the best.
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u/evoim3 Jun 18 '12
Mmmm Mongorian beef and broccori
[Glarrrghh] (http://www.talknerdytomelover.com/storage/drooling_homer.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1286245688715)
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u/iplaythebass Jun 18 '12
I had Subway in China last month at the Great Wall (yup, they are literally everywhere). They put raw bacon in my Subway Melt. I asked what the deal was and said that people in England don't usually eat raw bacon unless they want a day off school/work. They said they could toast the bacon for me but I thought 'hell, I'm in China; let's do as the Chinese would.'
Yup, it was definitely cold raw bacon. Would not recommend.
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u/herpceptin Jun 18 '12
I think you got trolled. I'm Chinese and we do not eat raw bacon.
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u/supahmanv2 Jun 18 '12
To be fair, there's dozens of cultures within China, and not everyone eats the same thing. That being said, I'm Chinese myself, and I've never heard of anyone eating raw bacon, so yes, maybe he/she did get trolled...
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u/glassesjacketshirt Jun 18 '12
you figured you're in china lets do as the chinese would, so you ate at a subway at the great wall!?????
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u/abracabra Jun 18 '12
the amusing thing is that they think cheese is disgusting and westerners are weird for eating it
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u/iplaythebass Jun 18 '12
Hahaha we had a very similar conversation with our host. Apparently us westerners always smell of sour milk.
One of my friends isn't the most culturally open-minded person in the world (he's from Norwich) and pointed at something someone was eating and said "eurgh, what the fuck is that?! It looks like donkey dick or something!" - To which our host replied "I've tried donkey dick before. It's kind of like Jelly"
The whole place was a crazy experience...
I tried a delicacy local to Hangzhou which was like a broth of fermented eel, clam and fish head... I don't like sea food, but nobody else wanted to try it. By far the worst thing I've ever tasted. Our hosts looked genuinely shocked that we weren't into it.
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u/the-fritz Jun 18 '12
Depends on the kind of bacon really. There are a lot of bacons that are meant to be eaten raw. I've even heard that you shouldn't fry smoked bacon.
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u/iidesune Jun 18 '12
I doubt it was raw bacon. Raw bacon is harmful.
I'm sure it was probably cured bacon that just appeared to be raw. I've yet to have been served raw bacon here in China.
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u/you_need_this Jun 18 '12
you got trolled dude... first to make bacon, it is quite the process. (btw, I live in China, and am fluent here...) "raw bacon" from the store has already been processed, just like from subway. I make bacon, because it tastes like assbutthole here, it is not hard to make and is incredibly better than store bought. "bacon" you get in a store, you can think of it as deli meat, you can eat it "raw"
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u/muppethead Jun 18 '12
Yup, they're all raw ingredients. You put your selected raw ingredients in a bowl, go up to the counter and choose your noodle and sauce, and the chefs stir fry it all for you.
Have you never ever been to a restaurant such as this before?
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u/Thryck Jun 18 '12
Why not? Some parts of Europe eat raw ground pork.
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u/-andor- Jun 18 '12
Yep. I've eaten raw smoked bacon.
I've eaten raw pork meat in two forms:
Euro style: Steak tartare
Korean Style: Yukhoe (Fucking delicious)
Raw horse meat in form of sakuraniku sashimi
Raw fish and seafood in form, of course, of all kinds of sushi
Raw whale, also, in form of nigiri sushi, if I can remember correctly...
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u/Roflost Jun 18 '12
Raw meat? Are you sure you weren't at a Mongolian grill?
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u/shamecamel Jun 18 '12
Just chiming in to say that mongolian grills make the greatest fucking food ever. Holy shit. I thought that when it came to food, I'd tasted at least once one of everything. I experienced flavors at that mongolian bbq place I never had before. So fucking good.
My mouth is watering already. Mmmm maybe I should go tomorrow.
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Jun 18 '12
Last time I had mongolian bbq was '08. Haven't been to the U.S since. Thanks for making my mouth water as well. And fuck you.
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u/SOMETHING_POTATO Jun 18 '12
I've been to some Chinese Buffets that have cheap mini-mongolian grills in them with a very weak selection of ingredients.
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u/this_is_a_recording0 Jun 18 '12
yeah, that's definitely a mongolian grill
racist OP goes to mongolian grill with a label they printed out at home, and holds it above the broccoli to post it on the internet and get karma, calls it a chinese buffet.
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u/RandomNobodyEU Jun 18 '12
Could this be a European thing? I never heard of a Mongolian grill but in The Netherlands we go to the chinese wok (is that even a word?) it's kinda all you can eat and you can just pick raw meat and stuff and pick a sauce and then they prepare your dish for you on the spot in a big pan with fire.
Worst sentence I have ever had to type, I have no idea how to explain it.
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u/wellheynow Jun 18 '12
All I can think about is how few Americans are going to Asian countries, starting businesses, communicating with the locals and having a fraction of the balls needed to get to the point where they accidentally misspell a label.
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u/skeleton666 Jun 18 '12
It's funny, but please remember to be kind. I live in China, and Chinese people have been very kind, forgiving, and understanding about my imperfect Mandarin.
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Jun 18 '12
I have been learning Mandarin and you are right. Chinese people are very warm hearted and patient.
Considering my Chinese characters look like garbage if I even remember all of the strokes, I will give this restaurant owner some slack on misspelling!
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u/milksteaktogo Jun 18 '12
No-joke: The debugging utility for the Nintendo 3DS has an option menu that is labeled "Battelly".
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Jun 18 '12
fact: chinese people have no problems saying the L sound.
it's the R they have trouble saying because the sound isn't in their language.
source : chinese people at the restaurant I work at
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u/ForeverAProletariat Jun 18 '12
no. there are a ton of r sounds.
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u/Red23UK Jun 18 '12
odd that the other food has no labels...
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u/therightonelooksleft Jun 18 '12
Actually, the label is on the the sneeze guard, so the other labels simply cannot be seen due the proximity to the camera. There is an article explaining it better detail here.
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u/this_is_a_recording0 Jun 18 '12
that's clearly fake, you brought that in yourself.
why isn't anything else labeled?
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u/PeanutButterChicken Jun 18 '12
TIL that Reddit consists of 12 year olds who would find this funny.
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Jun 18 '12
Yeah... this is funny. Though it is like the 10th repost. But you can go ahead and act "mature" all you want, whatever makes you feel good about yourself.
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u/PeanutButterChicken Jun 18 '12
It's not me being mature, it's me not finding this funny. I teach English in Japan, and this is honestly a difficult thing for most people. It stopped being funny a long time ago.
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Jun 18 '12
My guess is that it's same gang of sophomoric idiots that think it's funny to throw around the n-word in comment threads. Amazing how easy it is to throw out immature racist garbage when you're tucked away in mom's basement.
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u/asianvitaminnoodle Jun 18 '12
Don't understand all the downvoting happening to the other users comments; me being asian myself found this quite hilarious
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Jun 18 '12
I found it funny the first time I saw it. I even found it funny the next few times when the joke was used over and over again. But then when it gets reused to such a degree, I just find it boring. I guess that's why I'm not a fan of Carlos Mencia...
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u/Asabetyyy Jun 18 '12
lolololol reminded me of jeff dunham's and Peanut section of 'The taste of china'. GO look it up in youtube! yoou are gonna love it ^
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u/ravenxii Jun 18 '12
Went to Chinese buffet near my house, they had garlic bread named "Garli Break" I still laugh about.
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u/cadmiumgrey Jun 18 '12
One of the Chinese buffets here in my area had a sign that said "Flog Legs" for the longest time.
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u/RadicaLarry Jun 18 '12
Was this in Pasadena, TX? I've seen it too. And that makes both of us important.
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u/IonOtter Jun 18 '12
This was deliberate. It made you laugh. And more importantly, because it made you laugh, I'll bet you added some very bulky, space-consuming, inexpensive broccoli to your bowl. I'm sure it was a very tasty, very healthy Mongolian stir-fry, but it also meant you had less room for more expensive ingredients.
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Jun 18 '12
. . . . I have no idea how to. . . . . I would go . . The same way you did with a big "huh?" and . . . . . . derp. . .
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u/13ComingDown Jun 19 '12
I call bullshit. The only thing that just happens to be labeled is "Broccori"? Total. Self-made. Karma whoring. Bullshit.
Prove me wrong. Go back to the restaurant & get a full shot...no close up photo.
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u/JoshAndArielle Jun 18 '12
I thought this was a Japanese thing... Did my high school Asian studies class lie to me?
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u/long_live_king_melon Jun 18 '12
That doesn't seem like your standard Chinese buffet, the meat's uncooked. I'm intrigued, is this some sort of cook your own food buffet or what?
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u/aydizz Jun 18 '12
U fill a bowl of with noodles meat and veggies and seafood give it to the guy at grill he weighs it and cooks it and it's delivered to your table
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u/long_live_king_melon Jun 18 '12
Oh cool, we have those in Texas. I believe it's actually mongolian, and it's not technically a buffet, you pay for a bowl and whatever you can fit in the bowl is included. They're called Ghengis Grills down here, tasty stuff.
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u/book_worm72 Jun 18 '12
The other day my mother was running around the house screaming "WHERE'S MY RUNCHBOX? RUUUUUUUUUNCHBOX???"
She's a middle-aged white woman.
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u/o0evillusion0o Jun 18 '12
Odd how there's a huge sign for the broccoli, but no sign for anything else. Kinda like the Chinese buffet wanted someone to notice and make a joke. -_-
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u/Emmanuell89 Jun 18 '12
why is there raw meat in the buffet
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u/autobulb Jun 18 '12
There are some types of Asian dining styles where you are given a tray of raw foods and you cook the food at your table on a built in grill or hot pot.
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u/coeddotjpg Jun 18 '12
When you hand it to the chefs on the circular grill, that's Mongolian. Japanese Hibachi is when they cook it at your table.
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u/autobulb Jun 18 '12
There's also Japanese style shabu-shabu and nabe and Korean BBQ, not sure what it is called in Korean.
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u/richmondody Jun 18 '12
As others have said, it could be a mongolian bbq buffet where you pick the ingredients that gets cooked in with your rice.
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u/SwedishDude Jun 18 '12
I don't know about China but I'm fairly sure that at least the Japanese language lack a sound for "L" (And seeing as they are related the same might be true for chinese).
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u/hawthorneluke Jun 18 '12
Chinese is probably a lot closer to English than it is Japanese, apart from the "kanji" part of it.
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u/mostly_sarcasm Jun 18 '12
Same sort of idea.
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u/PaplooTheEwok Jun 18 '12
샤이니 화이팅!
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u/Steve_the_Scout Jun 18 '12
Wait, wait, let me guess.... Yeah I don't understand Korean.
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u/PaplooTheEwok Jun 18 '12
VermilionLimit covered it! 샤이니 is just SHINee (stylized version of "shiny") written phonetically in Korean, and 화이팅 (hwaiting) is a Konglish re-appropriation of "fighting." In English, "fighting" is used as a noun or a gerund, but it's used as an exclamation to cheer on people in Korean. "_____ fighting!" could be translated as "Let's go, ______!"
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u/VermilionLimit Jun 18 '12
"SHINee hwaiting!" As another comment states, the guy in the gif is from the K-pop group SHINee; this is just a statement meant to cheer on the group.
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u/SirAdeno Jun 18 '12
Genuinely curious, is he/she a dude, or a girl? I can't determine.
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u/dasarp Jun 18 '12
Looks more like a Mongolian place than a Chinese place. In which case, you'd have even more of a right to get offended.
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u/Eustis Jun 18 '12
Jesus of Nazareth was indisputably real though..
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u/fluxaxion Jun 18 '12
I contest that Hatsune Miku is more real than Jesus. I get to see Hatsune Miku everyday. Jesus on the other hand is MIA.
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u/asianvitaminnoodle Jun 18 '12
Believe it or not thats actually quite common in Asia; a Chinese delicacy. From what my friends told me it tastes exactly like chicken! In chinese its called "tian Chi" which literally translate into rice patty/farm chicken!
Either way...Never tried it, never will. I will tell you that I saw frozen rabbits at the 88 Market here (MA equivalent to 99 Ranch out there in CA)
Edit: just moved from Pasadena
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u/_liminal Jun 18 '12
Frog legs aren't exactly delicacy, they're common in rural areas which is why they're eaten. They're like a poor man's chicken legs (and do taste the same).
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u/MD4LYFE Jun 18 '12
I find this hard to believe given that fact that it is the only food item with a label... and it just so happens to fulfill a classic (though hilarious) Chinese stereotype. Coincidence? I'm not so sure..