The infamous Spice Bag

Ginger83

roundymac wrote: »

From Jade Palace to night.
spring roll, Salt and pepper chicken, salt and pepper wings, ribs, chips and curry, mixed veg. €15, plenty for two.

Sounds nice but i don't eat out of chinese places.
Do chip shops do the same?

Ginger83

J Mysterio wrote: »

Ah thats not a spice bag for fecks sake! This thread has really gone to hell.

whats in it then?

roundymac

J Mysterio wrote: »

Ah thats not a spice bag for fecks sake! This thread has really gone to hell.

Right, you tell us what's in it so, 'cos that's what Jade Palace are calling a spice bag.

J Mysterio

It's battered chicken pieces lobbed in a brown bag with with chips, fried onions/ peppers/ chili and some spices for good measure.

Spice bag.

the beer revolu

Ginger83 wrote: »

Sounds nice but i don't eat out of chinese places.
Do chip shops do the same?

So you want the food that Chinese places serve but you won't eat from a Chinese place?
Sounds pretty racist to me.
Perhaps you have a non racist explanation?

Smokers and Jokers?

J Mysterio wrote: »

It's battered chicken pieces lobbed in a brown bag with with chips, fried onions/ peppers/ chili and some spices for good measure.

Spice bag.

Do they shake the bag?

Ludo

the beer revolu wrote: »

So you want the food that Chinese places serve but you won't eat from a Chinese place?
Sounds pretty racist to me.
Perhaps you have a non racist explanation?

Probably thinks all Chinese places don't maintain hygiene standards...unlike all chippers which are spotless and only sever the best quality food.

L'prof

J Mysterio wrote: »

Ah thats not a spice bag for fecks sake! This thread has really gone to hell.

roundymac wrote: »

Right, you tell us what's in it so, 'cos that's what Jade Palace are calling a spice bag.

Yeah, that's more like a spice box. A spice bag is generally salt & chilli chicken & chips. That said, I'd generally go for a spice box if both of us wanted it!

Ginger83

the beer revolu wrote: »

So you want the food that Chinese places serve but you won't eat from a Chinese place?
Sounds pretty racist to me.
Perhaps you have a non racist explanation?

Hi, the only reason i dont eat in chinese places is I used to deliver to chinese restaurants and have experienced 1st hand some of the practices.

I just wondered what was in the spice bag.

Ginger83

Ludo wrote: »

Probably thinks all Chinese places don't maintain hygiene standards...unlike all chippers which are spotless and only sever the best quality food.

Hi, my reasons are not hygiene but I wont sicken you with them, you keep enjoying your chinese.
There are some chip shops I would not eat out of either.

.red.

Ginger83 wrote: »

Hi, the only reason i dont eat in chinese places is I used to deliver to chinese restaurants and have experienced 1st hand some of the practices.

I just wondered what was in the spice bag.

I worked in a butchers and still shudder at some if the stuff that went on.
I'm not a vegie tho.

Ginger83

.red. wrote: »

I worked in a butchers and still shudder at some if the stuff that went on.
I'm not a vegie tho.

I can see your logic but not alot know what goes on in chinese places. If certain authorities knew they'd all be closed.

J Mysterio

Ginger83 wrote: »

I can see your logic but not alot know what goes on in chinese places. If certain authorities knew they'd all be closed.

Then you have a public duty to inform health inspectors.

the beer revolu

Ginger83 wrote: »

I can see your logic but not alot know what goes on in chinese places. If certain authorities knew they'd all be closed.

Some very dodgy practices go on in restaurants run by Irish people. By your logic, all restaurants run by Irish people should be closed as a result.

Your reasoning is nothing but racist.

Ludo

Ginger83 wrote: »

I can see your logic but not alot know what goes on in chinese places. If certain authorities knew they'd all be closed.

Go on then...tell us how Chinese restaurants practices are so different to non-Chinese restaurants. Very interested to know.

Ginger83

the beer revolu wrote: »

Some very dodgy practices go on in restaurants run by Irish people. By your logic, all restaurants run by Irish people should be closed as a result.

Your reasoning is nothing but racist.

I can only speak from my own experience, i don't doubt other places have bad practices.

Oh and i'm far from racist, I socialise and have worked with many people from all over the world.

dudara

roundymac wrote: »

Right, you tell us what's in it so, 'cos that's what Jade Palace are calling a spice bag.

That's more like what Dublin Chinese call a "Munchy Box"

A spice bag is chips and battered chicken bits stir fried in salt, pepper and chili, usually with some onion & peppers.

Ginger83

Ludo wrote: »

Go on then...tell us how Chinese restaurants practices are so different to non-Chinese restaurants. Very interested to know.

I'll give you one example...

I worked for a time for a well known company delivering cooking oil to various takeaways, eateries and restaurants. Part of my job was to collect the used waste oil and grease. This was normally kept in a plastic barrel out the back in an alleyway. Many a barrel I collected with lids off, half full of rain water, dead rats floating. I pulled a dead cat out of 1 once.

Anyway I could never understand why there was never any waste out of a chinese. Some would use 300lt a fortnight and not a drop of waste. Its because they put it all back into the food. That stinking barrel is brought back into the kitchen, the skin is scraped off the top, all bits are sieved out and a huge pot is put up on the cooker. One chap stirs and another adds scoop after scoop of powder and behold you have 50-60 litres of tasty curry sauce.

But each to their own, i just prefer not to eat chinese.

the beer revolu

Ginger83 wrote: »

I'll give you one example...



But each to their own, i just prefer not to eat chinese.

But tarring all Chinese restaurants with the same brush just because they're Chinese is ...........?
Anyone?

Ginger83

the beer revolu wrote: »

But tarring all Chinese restaurants with the same brush just because they're Chinese is ...........?
Anyone?

There hasn't been one yet where I haven't seen it going on. Ask any experienced chef.

Don't get me wrong there's chippers and coffee shops I wouldn't let my dog eat in.

the beer revolu

Ginger83 wrote: »

There hasn't been one yet where I haven't seen it going on. Ask any experienced chef..

What?
Now you're claiming that all experienced chefs have racist, stereotyped views?!!
Who are you going to have a go at next?

the beer revolu

Ginger83 wrote: »

Don't get me wrong there's chippers and coffee shops I wouldn't let my dog eat in.

How come, with your non racist logic, you don't refuse to eat from all chippers seeing that you appear to have witnessed poor practice in some?
This is a serious question.

Ginger83

the beer revolu wrote: »

How come, with your non racist logic, you don't refuse to eat from all chippers seeing that you appear to have witnessed poor practice in some?
This is a serious question.

You seem to have some connection to chinese.
To answer your question...I've delivered to thousands of different places and theres many I dont eat in. Maybe I'm picky but I dont like eating in dirty filthy holes of places and there is many of all kinds, cafe's, takeaways, etc.
I dont see what your problem is, i just choose not to eat in any chinese restaurant or takeaway because i know what goes in the food. There was a live slug found in a dish only last night from a Navan chinese.

Theres a cafe in Dunshaughlin I delivered to, an elderly lady about 70 thinks nothing of standing in the kitchen cooking the sausages and rashers with a fag in her mouth. She then put the same fag still lit on the side of a chopping board she was making sandwiches on....yummy
I choose not to eat there either.
She's Irish and I'm Irish. Does that make me a racist also?

the beer revolu

Ginger83 wrote: »

You seem to have some connection to chinese.
To answer your question...I've delivered to thousands of different places and theres many I dont eat in. Maybe I'm picky but I dont like eating in dirty filthy holes of places and there is many of all kinds, cafe's, takeaways, etc.
I dont see what your problem is, i just choose not to eat in any chinese restaurant or takeaway because i know what goes in the food. There was a live slug found in a dish only last night from a Navan chinese.

Theres a cafe in Dunshaughlin I delivered to, an elderly lady about 70 thinks nothing of standing in the kitchen cooking the sausages and rashers with a fag in her mouth. She then put the same fag still lit on the side of a chopping board she was making sandwiches on....yummy
I choose not to eat there either.
She's Irish and I'm Irish. Does that make me a racist also?

You really don't get it do you?
I will try to spell it out again.

Let's take the example of chippers and Chinese takeaways.

Almost all chippers follow a similar model.
Fresh cut chips, battered products, deep fried and burgers. All very similar in what they do.

Likewise, almost all Chinese takeaways follow a similar model and have very similar menus.

With me so far?

No doubt many chippers and Chinese takeaways have some very dodgy practices.

Most chippers are run by people of Irish or Italian extraction.

Most Chinese takeaways are run by people of Chinese extraction.

Still with me?

Now you have seen fist hand, and heard about (unreliable) dodgy practices in both chippers and Chinese run places.

You choose to avoid places that you know are dirty. Fair enough.

You don't assume that all chippers are usafe, despite seeing first hand that some are.

You do assume that all Chinese takeaways are unsafe because you have seen that some are.

See the problem here?


Anyway this is gone way off topic and you just don't seem to get it so I will stop here.

PS I've never, ever heard anyone admit to having racist views.

Ginger83

the beer revolu wrote: »

You really don't get it do you?
I will try to spell it out again.

Let's take the example of chippers and Chinese takeaways.

Almost all chippers follow a similar model.
Fresh cut chips, battered products, deep fried and burgers. All very similar in what they do.

Likewise, almost all Chinese takeaways follow a similar model and have very similar menus.

With me so far?

No doubt many chippers and Chinese takeaways have some very dodgy practices.

Most chippers are run by people of Irish or Italian extraction.

Most Chinese takeaways are run by people of Chinese extraction.

Still with me?

Now you have seen fist hand, and heard about (unreliable) dodgy practices in both chippers and Chinese run places.

You choose to avoid places that you know are dirty. Fair enough.

You don't assume that all chippers are usafe, despite seeing first hand that some are.

You do assume that all Chinese takeaways are unsafe because you have seen that some are.

See the problem here?

EVERY chinese i've ever delivered to makes sauces out of waste oil and grease and inject waste oil into chicken balls to make them big. ALL of them. Shall i go on....
Next time you tuck into one think of that, it wont bother me cos i dont eat the ****e......end of!

I speak from first hand witnessed experience, what's your experience?

Jesus such hassle for asking about a spice bag?

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Question asked and answered were way off topic now