Chinese restaurants shut down after seasoning food with opium to 'hook' customers

two for one special...order me the pot stickers.....always wondered what made them so addictive

 

Now the cat population will explode in China.

You do not believe Chinese restaurants really serve beef, or d0 you? Szechuan beef sounds so much better than Szechuan cat.

 

A little Chinese mustard and no one will ever know the difference

 

No wonder Chinese food is so good.

 

and after you leave, you want to go back for more

 

That's true.

 

A restaurant cooking with opium is so last millennium. Marijuana has a much larger market share.

If Uncle Cliffy can get the Chinese to buy his product, he could solve our trade deficit problem with China.

 

Just what the world needs...give the Chinese the munchies

 

A word here abut Chinky food would be in place.

 

According to dvvis, yep.

The word comes from the northern Indian word cheen-ke which when migrated to England became the origin of Cheen-ke food.
Doesn't seem racist to me, I like it (the food). Of course my wife won't let me say it even after I took her to a Cheen-ki restaurant.

 

Cheen Ke (Ching kerr) means to pick up the tab in Mandarin

 

Who knows how it meaning changed just over the hill? And then Racist by the time it reached here in the US.
There was a restaurant along the way to my ranch I had in BC, maybe Williams Lake. They had a Cheen-ki sign out for
a few years, then closed down. It wasn't so good, so no loss. Canadian restaurants always seem Canadian regardless of
who runs them.

 

There are a lot of words in Mandarin that sound politically incorrect when you can't understand the meaning....the Chinese all say neggah whenever stringing ideas together which bothers Black people when they hear it....sounds just like a derogatory word for Blacks. I've had to explain that to many Black travelers in Asia over the years. Bun ...in Mandarin means stupid so if you're name is Ben and they ask your name, they might giggle when you tell them because it sounds like the word stupid. Linguistics are innocent for the most part.

 

They should have never put maple syrup on the fried rice

 

I always suspected you were a cunning linguist, riverman.