finger-lickin good
last week i left our office quite late and was hungry, so i decided to head to nanjing road to see if anything was still open. it was almost 11pm and most places were shutting, so i ducked into a kfc to grab a sandwich.
there were only two things available- some chicken wings or a 'drumstick burger' which i decided to try. wasn't great, but it was food and i was hungry so i was satisfied.
satisfied, that is, until the news broke a couple of days later that the drumstick burger was one of two kfc items found to contain 'sudan 1', an industrial dye banned for food use and more commonly found in gasoline and shoe polish. yum!
somehow i'd rather deal with the possibility of bird flu than having industrial dye in my food. the good news is it looks like the government is taking this quite seriously- which makes me a bit more optimistic as far as the quality of other food out there.
posted by jeremy @ 10:36:00 PM
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One of my favorite quickie places to eat in Beijing was a total dump of a restaurant called "Chinese Fried Chicken" with the same font and color scheme as KFC but a vaguely Chinese looking Col. Sanders instead of the southern gent we all know.
Of course the chicken itself was pretty different - an entire deep fried chicken, with anywhere from 10 to 10,000 secret herbs and spices, chopped up (bones and all) in microseconds with a gigantic meat cleaver and dumped uncerimoneously into a plastic bag for one to take it home with.
I don't think there was any deliberately unnatural chemicals in it, other than what the chicken itself was probably still digesting from that morning in whatever back alley they rounded up that days allotment from.
CFC, how I miss thee :)
(Now that I think about it, I seem to remember a similar place in Tokyo - Jeremy, do you remember that?)
heh... nice story about cfc. i've got a photo of a place that looks like it could be cfc- will put it up later.
can't remember a similar place in japan- the only local fast food spot i used to eat at was mosburger. i do miss the chicken tatsuta at mcdonalds...
Hold on, don't drumsticks contain a bone? doesn't that make the idea of a drumstick burger a bit... painful?
I used to eat at a chicken place in Chengdu which was *great*. You got these little sachets of brown powder which was the single, strongest flavour I had ever - and still is - experienced. It was like the worlds most powerful chilli, mixed with ultra-MSG and petrol. Wow.
Of course, Chengdu is also the home of the schezuan hotpot, and yes I did enjoy that. Painful, but fun. I swear I watched a guy I was with eat it and his cold was cured!
yeah the name drumstick burger is a bit misleading... it was like a flattened 'zinger burger' if you've ever had one of those with a dark brown (gasoline-colored!) sauce.
were you living in cheng-du? seems like it's the big growth center for china west right now. a friend of mine from shanghai just found a job there and is gonna move there next month.
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