Chinese restaurant

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Dish on the menu last night at a Chinese restaurant - King prawns glazed in honey. Sounds delicious.

Dish arrives and it looks like it's got melted cheese all over it. We ask the waiter what the dish was, he didn't know, hadn't ever seen it before. We ask another waiter and he says oh yes, that's the honey king prawns. But why's there cheese all over it? No, no... no cheese, it's mayonnaise.

WTF??!!

Apparently that's one of their house specialities, a traditional old Chinese dish.

I'm sceptical but happy to be told otherwise by the mumsnet jury! And why the hell didn't they mention the mayo on the menu?!

Surprisingly amusing thread!

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/93234/honey-walnut-shrimp/

Mayo, condensed milk, honey.

I've had this and it's delicious. It may have been cooked badly or it may not have been to your taste but to say it wasn't as described is incorrect.

I had similar

Got in and a Chinese family were eating the most kick off amazing meal

Asked and was told ‘off menu’

Then was served the most vile food highlight was vege with that vile red chilli sauce all over them . WTF

I pasted them on trip advisor

When I go for dim sum I often order battered king prawns with mayonnaise (which tastes more like salad cream), it's a standard dish on the menu in Chinese restaurants that serve proper dim sum but I've never seen it in a "regular" Chinese restaurant.

We also eat condensed milk with dough sticks or HK french toast, it's a very Hong Kong thing.

I confess I've never heard of this dish but then I dislike sweet with savoury so might have not noticed it before!

I thought Chinese didn't use milk products?

There is no milk in mayonnaise.

It should have stated on the menu that it had mayo in it, it was described as prawns in honey. I wouldn't expect that to be smothered in mayo and would have sent it back

Just checking back in to see if the official complaint had been made. Did you log it with 101? Did the police come?
That nuts comment sums up the MN stereotype so perfectly 😁

Just checking back in to see if the official complaint had been made.

Could be an international incident

@BertrandRussell

Ha ha “Person orders something they don’t like in restaurant”

In other news, bears shit in woods."

Could somebody google for me whether the Pope is Catholic

I once ordered a meal in Italy which I did not like. I am just wondering whether I should have contacted Interpol - the time has gone and we took no photographs nor forensic evidence. I had thought I was over it ........

OP this has made me laugh - hope you take it in good spirit

Bag of wank

King Prawn Pooey more like. Was it that plastic cheese that comes in squares served by MC Donald's? Bleurgh!

“@BertrandRussell makes shitty comment on thread”

In other news, bears shit in woods.

She's already been told it was mayonnaise, halfwit.

Cheese? Mayo? Still sounds awful. @Youvealwaysbeenthecaretaker

Why does mayonnaise have to be on absolutely everything these days? I can’t stand mayonnaise, and would have really really complained. And no, that’s not a traditional dish.

And if they refused to take it off the bill: call Hong Kong Phooey!

Prawns are revolting anyway so not sure what you’re complaining about

Just aren't here, but I remember being served a little dish of mayonnaise on the side with corn in Quang Tri in Vietnam. But sadly, it's more of Western influences taking over everyone's food, then local dishes. I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere else in the province. It is definitely being used more and more in the bigger cities though, especially places were foreigners are. But I'm seeing it more and more, on sandwiches and things.

I have a Japanese friend who works in really rural Thailand rural Thailand, and she went to the market one day to buy lunch and was served a salad with mayonnaise and all kinds of strange things in it. They were trying to be Western and failed badly.

Stare, I think every country has its ideas of what foreigners want to eat. I remember taking my mother to a restaurant in Florence and they were putting foreigners in a different part of the restaurant that Italians. And when I ordered for my mother, she was socked that usually you have your pasta dish, followed by your meat dish and then you have a separate site this. It's not just a plate of pasta and that's it. And I remember her opinion of pastor the first time she tried it in Italy, having been used to what was served at places like the all live The Olive Garden in the US.

And in Italy, you don't have weird things like fettuccine Alfredo. Not an Italian dish at all.

Please excuse the dictation mistakes, I mean pastor, blooming flaming hell. I'm going to spell it. PASTA! My mother did not do anything involving a pastor.

No idea about Chinese food, but it's very common to see mayonnaise on traditional Japanese dishes. The Japanese eat tons of it!

I really want to try that honey walnut prawn recipe. I'll have to wait til ds comes home next though, dp and ds regard sweet and savoury in the same dish as rank poison.

And Vietnam was a French colony, hence the mayonnaise and pate in their delicious banh mi (baguettes).

Who cares if it was or wasn't as described, it was vile, I wouldn't have paid for it.