Word: dished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I ordered my dish at the open window of the apparently nameless restaurant next to the Thai food kitchen, I could see two boys sitting in the kitchen, shelling the peas that I would eat, and scrambling eggs in the hugest wok I had ever seen. Minutes after I placed my order, a supermarket blue-and-white ceramic plate full of "fried rice with pork and shrimps" was placed in front...
...order green curry with chicken, a spicy, soupy mixture of green vegetables--mostly green pepper--and nearly-white chunks of chicken. Contrasting with the plate of sticky white rice, the dish is both sweet and spicy. A combination of Indian food and Chinese food with an end result that is neither...
Based in Omaha, RFD-TV puts out a signal that can be picked up free by the 2 million U.S. households with satellite dishes. About 70% of those homes are in rural areas not wired for cable TV. Programming includes crop and livestock reports, country-music videos, a polka-music show and a smattering of old western movies. Patrick Gottsch, a former satellite-dish salesman who raised $4 million from investors to start RFD-TV, thinks the channel can attract enough advertising to turn a profit in its first year. Says investor Jim Harker of Omaha: "Nobody else is hitting...
...only modern artist to make it to the common menu, with the Szechwan specialty Ta Chien chicken. Through menu notes I have learned over the years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...
Orange flavor beef ($9.50) is different enough from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...