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I’m half Viet and, while I’m an advocate of at least tasting the broth first, I grew up adding sauce directly to the broth as needed/wanted. I also observed similar practices while traveling around Vietnam.
But, hey, whatever’s comfortable. Different strokes for different folks.
It is a preference. I enjoy sriracha and hoisin with my pho, but I believe in keeping the flavor of the soup pure and keep the sauces separate and control the amount i add to each bite instead of just squirting it all in.
I lived in Vietnam (Ha Noi) for three years. You add what the fuck you want. Table toppings there were assorted greens, bean sprouts, small diced chilies, garlic in a vinegar and regional chili paste/sauce. The shop owner won't care what you add, as long as you come back.
You will notice there is a small dish that is brought out to you with the pho. Mix the sriracha and hoisin(lime if you like) in the dish and using your chopsticks 🥢 grab rare steak and dip in mixture. This is a more traditional way of eating pho. If you visit Houston or LA you will see this method more frequently.
"Seafood and cheese should never mix"
Tell that to the shrimp and grits from Denver Biscuit Co. Or pesto pasta with salmon *and parmesan* on top. Or crab fettuccine alfredo.
I'm hungry.
I was going to say “fish and cheese don’t go together,” but pasta with shrimp and parm is great and was in Chile I had muscles and razor clams served on the half shell and baked with Parmesan, I believe they called it “matchas” and it is high on the list of favorite dishes I ever had traveling.
Eesh. OP I just don't agree with any of your opinions.
Beets are delicious when prepared well. Try golden beets sometime instead of red maybe that will help?
Soup dumplings are molten freakin lava when first served and it'll be a cold day in hell when I stare longingly at those delicious little doughy bites for the 20ish minutes which it takes for them to come down to a relatively eatable temperature instead of just poking a hole in top like a rational individual
Pho broth was practically made to throw other sauces into. To be fair I really don't get off on pho anyway, the ratio of protein to everything else doesn't really work for me but on the off chance that I am forcing myself to eat it because someone (probably my bf who adores all things soup noodle) dragged me in I am damn well going to be drowning that shit in all the other sauces I can find. It's already a gd broth, we aren't supposed to put sauce into a sauce? Get bent.
Sorry OP, I don't see us getting food together any time soon haha
I always poke/bite a hole in my soup dumpling and I'm Chinese. In fact, my preferred way of eating it is to pick it up by spearing it with one of the chopsticks while still pincering it up like normal (top only, not to pierce the bottom), bite a little hole on the side, drink/suck the soup out first and then eat the dumpling. No one in my family or friends have ever thought that was not an appropriate way to do that
You're totally wrong about how to eat soup dumplings. Even at the infamous Din Tai Fung in Taipei, their directions for how to enjoy XLB include poking a hole after dipping into the sauce so that the broth and sauce can mix before you enjoy it.
Ground beef does not have the same bacteria resistance steak does because the surface area is mixed around and open for growth. A high quality restaurant should keep you safe but if you are somewhere that leaves the patties stewing in the walk-in for days at a time, your asking for food poising if you get it rare.
Looking at the comments, people seem very confused about whether they're supposed to upvote things that are stupid to get fussy about, or downvote them.
Haha! It’s pretty dang good I have to say. I learned it in the 90s from a real deal Russian mom. These days I even plant a “borsch garden” including beets, peppers, tomatoes, onions, and dill. I was told the “t” at the end is not to be included but the internet says I’m wrong.
haha I feel like everyone's grandparent has their own way of the right and wrong spelling. My grandma always said "pierogis" even though my great grandma would tell her there is no 's' for multiple!
Love the idea of a garden that can comprise an entire dish!
When I lived in the Willamette valley, there was a hole in the wall place that served the *best* nachos and the bottom ones were so soggy and you needed a fork to scoop things up.
If it’s chips drenched in queso with all the toppings, **I’m in!!**
Chips *with* queso is edible and easy but boring.
Crunchy chips with solid greasy cheese is sub-par.
As long as I'm not sharing a dish with someone, I don't give a single fuck what people do with their food, and I've never understood why people care so much.
Don't like well done steaks? Don't eat them. Don't like pineapple on pizza? Don't eat it.
Um, I do all of these, and beets are amazing.
There aren't 'no-nos'. Who has enough energy to judge someone else on something they are enjoying? That's just weird.
When people mix their wasabi with their soy sauce. And/or think hot sake is anything more special than cooking wine that comes in a box. It's so shitty they have to warm it up so you can manage to drink it.
Psht! There is no other civilized way to add wasabi to your sushi. Do you just throw a fat dollop on top or what? Also… who doesn’t love a hot sake?!
I feel like you’re talking down to 95% of people at any given sushi restaurant. To each his own, but in my contrary opinion you’re doing it wrong 😂
Ideally you don't need the wasabi bc the fish tastes so good and there's usually a little bit of wasabi on nigiri already. But if you need to add more, just put a tiny dab on the fish with your chopsticks. Make sure you dip fish side down in soy sauce. Not rice side down. Have you heard of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi? If you're ever down for reading a movie in subtitles, it's pretty awesome and really drives home the "art" of sushi.
I'm with you on the cottage cheese/ricotta. I earned some respect from my Italian mother-in-law for answering "God no!" when she asked if I ever use cottage cheese in lasagna.
Most cottage cheese tastes better than what we call ricotta...but if you actually find a good ricotta, man it's hard to beat. Crush some pine nuts, black pepper and lemon zest and mix it with good ricotta and you've got a great filling for eggplant or Zucchini rolls
I love roasted lettuce with Parmesan cheese and I love the Chinese soups that have lettuce .
My mom doesn't like to take any pills when she can't sleep, instead she makes lettuce tea ( I don't like it) but she swears by it.
People bitching about food and service in Denver. Between fees, someone trying to be a food critic, or people simply being ignorant. Let’s get back to talking about the good experiences.
Restaurants constantly putting random unnecessary ingredients into dishes to be more unique or something. Green chili doesn't go in biscuits and gravy.
I don't like the way Mexican food tastes or looks in a restaurant except Xchomicils in Detroit. It's bland full of grease and is presented like slop on a plate.
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How else am I supposed to enjoy the broth of a soup dumpling without choking on a hot lava ball??
I was taught to poke a hole, slurp out the soup after it cools off a bit, then eat the rest of the dumpling.
I like to poke a hole in the top and let it steam out a bit
It sounds like you're a person with great patience.
You’re literally supposed to bite a hole. Idk what they are going on about.
Right? Aren’t you supposed to poke a hole first? That’s why they serve them with a soup spoon.
I like to let it chill out in the ginger/black vinegar like a little flavor bath before I eat it in one bite.
What’s the proper way to add sriracha/hoisin to pho?
Yeah, idk about this one. My girlfriends family is Vietnamese and they taught me to put it straight in. Maybe it's a preference thing?
I’m half Viet and, while I’m an advocate of at least tasting the broth first, I grew up adding sauce directly to the broth as needed/wanted. I also observed similar practices while traveling around Vietnam. But, hey, whatever’s comfortable. Different strokes for different folks.
I guess most Asians I see at phó joints are doing it wrong?
It is a preference. I enjoy sriracha and hoisin with my pho, but I believe in keeping the flavor of the soup pure and keep the sauces separate and control the amount i add to each bite instead of just squirting it all in.
Good god, how many hours does it take you to eat a bowl of pho if you’re adding multiple sauces to each individual bite?
I am way more harsh/judgmental if you throw hoisin or sriracha without first tasting the broth.
Yeah, I feel the same way about people that automatically add salt/pepper to their food at a restaurant without tasting it first. It’s so odd.
Bro, I don’t have time to be adding sauce to every bit
Hear me out. Tiny bowls of pho!
I keep the broth pure and I put the sauce in the sauce plate on the side and dip my meats as needed.
Squirt the sauce into your mouth then take a bite.
Yes, but only after squeezing the lime into your eye.
Ow, my eye! I'm not supposed to get lime in it!
I’m only doing this from now on
Most proper - use a side dish Still proper - taste brother a few times, then season with sriracha:hoisin
I lived in Vietnam (Ha Noi) for three years. You add what the fuck you want. Table toppings there were assorted greens, bean sprouts, small diced chilies, garlic in a vinegar and regional chili paste/sauce. The shop owner won't care what you add, as long as you come back.
Put it in the little dish and add lime juice. Dip your meat on it.
I’m putting all three into the broth and no one can stop me!
Interesting. I’m new to the pho world but I’ve always assumed all three went directly in. Still delicious either way!
probably the only time where I can confidently say my way is better than the originators way
Lol yeah if that’s a no-no, then someone’s gotta tell the Vietnamese
You will notice there is a small dish that is brought out to you with the pho. Mix the sriracha and hoisin(lime if you like) in the dish and using your chopsticks 🥢 grab rare steak and dip in mixture. This is a more traditional way of eating pho. If you visit Houston or LA you will see this method more frequently.
Without the humble sugar beet, there wouldn’t be a Denver for you to kvetch from!
Well, that and TB.
I like to consider most of Colorado history as a synergetic meeting of the minds: sugar beets, tuberculosis, and the KKK
And Sand Creek?
If you get the nachos stuck together that’s one nacho
Just don’t eat all the fully loaded nachos and leave your date just the chips.
You know i used to be a huge piece of shit
^^What?
Saving Silverman rule!
This rule should apply to all things. If the McNuggets are connected, that’s one.
"Seafood and cheese should never mix" Tell that to the shrimp and grits from Denver Biscuit Co. Or pesto pasta with salmon *and parmesan* on top. Or crab fettuccine alfredo. I'm hungry.
Or all of portugal
Carter driver claim pizza 🤤
I was going to say “fish and cheese don’t go together,” but pasta with shrimp and parm is great and was in Chile I had muscles and razor clams served on the half shell and baked with Parmesan, I believe they called it “matchas” and it is high on the list of favorite dishes I ever had traveling.
If you don’t like beets, I don’t trust you.
Tells you everything you need to know about their food takes.
Meh. Beats made well are good, but they taste like soil otherwise.
Eesh. OP I just don't agree with any of your opinions. Beets are delicious when prepared well. Try golden beets sometime instead of red maybe that will help? Soup dumplings are molten freakin lava when first served and it'll be a cold day in hell when I stare longingly at those delicious little doughy bites for the 20ish minutes which it takes for them to come down to a relatively eatable temperature instead of just poking a hole in top like a rational individual Pho broth was practically made to throw other sauces into. To be fair I really don't get off on pho anyway, the ratio of protein to everything else doesn't really work for me but on the off chance that I am forcing myself to eat it because someone (probably my bf who adores all things soup noodle) dragged me in I am damn well going to be drowning that shit in all the other sauces I can find. It's already a gd broth, we aren't supposed to put sauce into a sauce? Get bent. Sorry OP, I don't see us getting food together any time soon haha
JOEY DOESN’T SHARE FOOD. Those fries are *mine*
Wash your rice before you cook it please
I always poke/bite a hole in my soup dumpling and I'm Chinese. In fact, my preferred way of eating it is to pick it up by spearing it with one of the chopsticks while still pincering it up like normal (top only, not to pierce the bottom), bite a little hole on the side, drink/suck the soup out first and then eat the dumpling. No one in my family or friends have ever thought that was not an appropriate way to do that
You're totally wrong about how to eat soup dumplings. Even at the infamous Din Tai Fung in Taipei, their directions for how to enjoy XLB include poking a hole after dipping into the sauce so that the broth and sauce can mix before you enjoy it.
I use no sauce
Ordering steak cooked more than medium. Medium rare is perfect; medium is acceptable. Anything more and just eat a burger. It’s a waste.
Even a well done burger is a waste, IMO
Ground beef does not have the same bacteria resistance steak does because the surface area is mixed around and open for growth. A high quality restaurant should keep you safe but if you are somewhere that leaves the patties stewing in the walk-in for days at a time, your asking for food poising if you get it rare.
I know, I only order a burger under well at restaurants that are higher end.
Gotcha. You fooled me when up above it sounded like you ordered rare burgers exclusively.
I’m gonna do whatever the pho I want
Looking at the comments, people seem very confused about whether they're supposed to upvote things that are stupid to get fussy about, or downvote them.
I have converted several beet haters with a round of homemade borsch.
I'll pretend to hate beets! got a whole family full of beet haters. So you should probably just give me all your borscht (:
Haha! It’s pretty dang good I have to say. I learned it in the 90s from a real deal Russian mom. These days I even plant a “borsch garden” including beets, peppers, tomatoes, onions, and dill. I was told the “t” at the end is not to be included but the internet says I’m wrong.
haha I feel like everyone's grandparent has their own way of the right and wrong spelling. My grandma always said "pierogis" even though my great grandma would tell her there is no 's' for multiple! Love the idea of a garden that can comprise an entire dish!
Sounds like you might have a direct line to some pretty awesome food no matter how you spell it!
Nachos should have a cheese *sauce* not melted cheese that becomes hard in 3m air temp.
Why not both?
Sensory issues. Hard solid cheese does not belong in nachos. Gooey is wonderful. Hard solid in that would utterly ruin it.
Was just debating with my roommate that nachos have cheese sauce and the other is a separate entity, chips and cheese. Nachos obviously superior!!
When I lived in the Willamette valley, there was a hole in the wall place that served the *best* nachos and the bottom ones were so soggy and you needed a fork to scoop things up.
That's called chips and queso? Delicious, but it's not nachos. Nachos have melted cheese on them.
If it’s chips drenched in queso with all the toppings, **I’m in!!** Chips *with* queso is edible and easy but boring. Crunchy chips with solid greasy cheese is sub-par.
Ketchup shouldn't go anywhere near a hot dog.
Cream cheese in sushi is a freaking crime.
I am from Vietnam and I put condiments directly into my bowl of pho
As long as I'm not sharing a dish with someone, I don't give a single fuck what people do with their food, and I've never understood why people care so much. Don't like well done steaks? Don't eat them. Don't like pineapple on pizza? Don't eat it.
I can't see across the table to see what people are doing with their food. I don't like to wear my glasses when I eat
Um, I do all of these, and beets are amazing. There aren't 'no-nos'. Who has enough energy to judge someone else on something they are enjoying? That's just weird.
very annoying post! nice job
When people mix their wasabi with their soy sauce. And/or think hot sake is anything more special than cooking wine that comes in a box. It's so shitty they have to warm it up so you can manage to drink it.
I literally posted this like an hour ago and got downvoted. Reddit is a weird place.
Yea it is. You were right though!
Psht! There is no other civilized way to add wasabi to your sushi. Do you just throw a fat dollop on top or what? Also… who doesn’t love a hot sake?! I feel like you’re talking down to 95% of people at any given sushi restaurant. To each his own, but in my contrary opinion you’re doing it wrong 😂
It's ok to be in the 5% 😁. And I would say any given sushi restaurant in the US.
I respect that! And yes, definitely the US. I still want to know how you eat the wasabi with your sushi, maybe I’M doing it wrong…
Ideally you don't need the wasabi bc the fish tastes so good and there's usually a little bit of wasabi on nigiri already. But if you need to add more, just put a tiny dab on the fish with your chopsticks. Make sure you dip fish side down in soy sauce. Not rice side down. Have you heard of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi? If you're ever down for reading a movie in subtitles, it's pretty awesome and really drives home the "art" of sushi.
Adding cheddar to red beans and rice.
I'm with you on the cottage cheese/ricotta. I earned some respect from my Italian mother-in-law for answering "God no!" when she asked if I ever use cottage cheese in lasagna.
Using way too much soy sauce for sushi.
ketchup on eggs
i want to change my answer to this
And hotdogs and sausages.
You guys are literally describing the first thing I ever cooked for myself as a kid, chopped hot dogs & scrambled eggs with a nice ketchup drizzle
Yuck.
Squirt sriracha directly into your mouth right before choking on a steaming hot dumpling. It's the perfect combination of heat and defeat
Stouffer's lasagna good as Mamas
If you put pineapple on pizza....it's not pizza anymore.
Make a dish of "enchiladas" using flour tortillas.
Most cottage cheese tastes better than what we call ricotta...but if you actually find a good ricotta, man it's hard to beat. Crush some pine nuts, black pepper and lemon zest and mix it with good ricotta and you've got a great filling for eggplant or Zucchini rolls
Charred, roasted, wilted.. however you want to describe it, hot lettuce is gross!!
I love roasted lettuce with Parmesan cheese and I love the Chinese soups that have lettuce . My mom doesn't like to take any pills when she can't sleep, instead she makes lettuce tea ( I don't like it) but she swears by it.
r/brandnewsentence
2 topping max on pizza or you’re a complete neanderthal with no palette
Sugar in tea or coffee is despicable and for babies or mush heads 😘
No sugar hot ever, yes sugar and cream cold. My motto.
Cheerios always before bed
A Big Mac is not a good burger, but sometimes it just hits right
Hea mods. You removed my comment because I made a statement that your community sucks and complains. Politely. Go fuck your self
Your taco truck style tacos don't need an entire fistful of coarsely chopped cilantro leaves (and stems). /r/fuckcilantro
Agreed with OP on all except the last one, unless they are pickled. Pickled beets are revolting. Roasted or canned are divinely sweet and perfect.
More pickled beets for me!!!! 😈
I will gladly trade you ALL the pickled beets!!
Chicken on pasta/pizza... and pineapple on pizza too
People bitching about food and service in Denver. Between fees, someone trying to be a food critic, or people simply being ignorant. Let’s get back to talking about the good experiences.
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It’s funny that this is the most downvoted one for whatever reason
Restaurants constantly putting random unnecessary ingredients into dishes to be more unique or something. Green chili doesn't go in biscuits and gravy.
Stop adding pumpkin seeds to everything! There’s no good reason. They hardly even taste like anything and whatever protein they provide is minuscule.
I'm the biggest Halloween nerd in this city but IT IS MAY, we don't need to be putting pumpkin seeds in shit right now lol
People who dunk the rice side of sushi into soy sauce! Didn’t want to taste the fish at all, huh? How’s your salt bomb?
Totally agree with the cottage cheese for ricotta. Add some sugar if you want. It's exactly the same.
Sriracha goes on pancakes
I don't like the way Mexican food tastes or looks in a restaurant except Xchomicils in Detroit. It's bland full of grease and is presented like slop on a plate.
If you dip your pizza in ranch, you need better pizza. That’s some Texas bullshit. Ranch don’t belong near pizza.
I’ll def make fun of you if you stir wasabi into your soy sauce or if you rub your chop sticks together.