Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025

On 2/10/2025 9:13 PM, songbird wrote:

Jill McQuown wrote:

On 2/8/2025 8:50 PM, songbird wrote:

Jill McQuown wrote:
...chinese food place making eggrolls...

I'm curious: how exactly do you know they're making them from scratch?
Do you have a view of the kitchen?

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    within the last few months i've been in their kitchen
when they've been making them.  we'd ordered a large
takeout meal for a family gathering and had to pick it up
when they were still getting ready to open.  we went in
the door and nobody was at the front desk as usual so we
had to walk back to the kitchen and get the order.  they
were there working around a large food prep table piled
full of eggroll innards.
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    so, yes, i'd say it very likely they are still making
their own since the flavor and blend of ingredients has
not changed in the recent months (i've eat several dozen
of their eggrolls in the past six months).  when you've
been eating these for about fifty years you kinda know
what they're like.
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    songbird

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WOW.  Thanks for that first-hand observation.  You do realize customers
are not usually allowed in the kitchen of restaurants due to insurance
liability issues.  You lucked out on that one.

    when you are on first name basis with the people who own
and run the place and you've been going there 50+ years and
it is the same family...  it makes a lot of difference.
there's zero liability issue.  just like any other person
who goes there to pick up or deliver whatever.  besides i
wasn't touching anything and i wasn't lingering.  i was in
there perhaps all of 10 seconds but you can see a lot.
     songbird

They may do it under those circumstances, but they may be in violation of the local health code.  Yes, if the code prohibits there is liability.
Some have a dress code.  No open shoes, must wear a hat.
A  local family place may be lax, not sure I'd want to dine there if too lax.