Ordering chicken in a restaurant.

Apocalypto Panther

I don't remember ever ordering chicken in a restaurant except for maybe when I was a kid. It just seems like such a waste, do you ever order chicken in a restaurant?

The Backwards Man

Depends whether or not you consider KFC a restaurant or not, I suppose.

keelanj69

Chicken Korma. Oh yes!

efb

St-eak

Pai Mei

Shredded chicken in the Chinese without fail!

dd972

Strangely enough people do this when they prefer it to a Steak or the Lamb, fecking weirdos they are :eek:

Cool_CM

Ordering the hottest variety of chicken wings available is certainly not a waste!

Samuri Suicide

Waiter:Would you like to order?

Me:Yes please,I'll have the chicken

Waiter:OMG...You just ordered the ****!n chicken!!?!? Are you mental??!??!? Are you a kid or what?!?!?!

kneemos

Ordering stuff you can make easily at home like chips,veg or even steak might be a waste but there's loads of chicken dishes.

truebluesac

Chicken madras please ..

Mmmmmmmhhhhhhhh. Hot hot hot

Chicken? Chicken?? I only eat the finest fillet mignon

The Backwards Man

You know what is good for a laugh?

Walking into a upscale restaurant, dressed to the nines, quick flash of the Gold Card to the waiter as you are seated at the table. . . .

. . . . and then ask him if they have any alphabetti spaghetti.

The Backwards Man

Jake1 wrote: »

Chicken? Chicken?? I only eat the finest fillet mignon

Or, as they call it in Ireland, fillet.

NotInventedHere

Yes, but it has to be taken rare.

Wompa1

I usually get the chicken...I mostly eat chicken though

Jimminy Mc Fukhead

The Backwards Man wrote: »

. . . . and then ask him if they have any alphabetti spaghetti.

for the lady. And I'll have - oh - yes I'll go with the sausage and chips.
What fizzy orange do you have this evening? A fanta perhaps

truebluesac

I dont understand people who order steak every time they eat out . When i eat out i love to treat my taste buds with some fine and different foods than what i can make at home . I can get a fine sirlion or fillet steak in the butchers for a fiver and i can cook a preaty dame good steak so it just seems a waste to spend close to or more than a score for somthing i can cook to the same level at home

Gummy Panda

I like chicken though!

Lapin

The chicken is probably made out of horse anyway.

truebluesac

Jimminy Mc Fukhead wrote: »

for the lady. And I'll have - oh - yes I'll go with the sausage and chips.
What fizzy orange do you have this evening? A fanta perhaps

Sorry sir we are all out of fanta . Could i intrest you in a bottle of our finest TK instead . Would you like red or white

endacl

Yep. Chicken bastilla in El Bahia last week. Moroccan restaurant, Irish chicken.

Luvverly!

Lapin

truebluesac wrote: »

I dont understand people who order steak every time they eat out . When i eat out i love to treat my taste buds with some fine and different foods than what i can make at home . I can get a fine sirlion or fillet steak in the butchers for a fiver and i can cook a preaty dame good steak so it just seems a waste to spend close to or more than a score for somthing i can cook to the same level at home

Very true.

Easiest thing in the world to cook too.

endacl

Lapin wrote: »

Very true.

Easiest thing in the world to cook too.

Coincidentally, they do a 'lapin' bastilla too.

Also luvverly!

I rarely bother cooking steak at home so I tend to order it out a lot
trying to change that though!

truebluesac

Lapin wrote: »

Very true.

Easiest thing in the world to cook too.

Can be if ya just trow it on the grill . I like to lightly marinate and season it . Rosemary goes great with steak . Cook it from room temp . 2-3 mins each side then into the oven for approx 10 mins for a lovely medium steak .

Abit of effort goes along way with steak and can taste even better than an expensive restraunt

worded

Try something new

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The Backwards Man

truebluesac wrote: »

I dont understand people who order steak every time they eat out . When i eat out i love to treat my taste buds with some fine and different foods than what i can make at home . I can get a fine sirlion or fillet steak in the butchers for a fiver and i can cook a preaty dame good steak so it just seems a waste to spend close to or more than a score for somthing i can cook to the same level at home

When I'm at home I throw a lock of frying steak on the pan.

When I'm at a steakhouse I am regaled with a chateaubriand. Big difference.:)

Anthony O Brien

dd972 wrote: »

Strangely enough people do this when they prefer it to a Steak or the Lamb, fecking weirdos they are :eek:

whats the point ordering a steak when you could train a monkey to cook it

awec

I honestly very rarely order chicken (specialty chicken restaurants aside).

I usually use eating out as a chance to get a really good steak.

Lapin

truebluesac wrote: »

Can be if ya just trow it on the grill . I like to lightly marinate and season it . Rosemary goes great with steak . Cook it from room temp . 2-3 mins each side then into the oven for approx 10 mins for a lovely medium steak .

Abit of effort goes along way with steak and can taste even better than an expensive restraunt

Again, I fully agree.

Tha steaks served in most restaurants most probably are out of the fridge on under the grill though.

I must try your method. 3 or 4 minutes in the oven would do me though.
Nice and rare with all the juices !




As for this joker.......

endacl wrote: »

Coincidentally, they do a 'lapin' bastilla too.

Also luvverly!

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Czarcasm

I'd always order tandoori chicken in the Indian, beef szechwaun in the Chinese, spaghetti bolognese in the Italian and depending on how the mood takes me either salmon or bacon and cabbage in Irish restaurants or pubs.

I ordered battered squid in Corfu once- it didn't go down well. It was like chewing on elastic bands and then when I managed to chew through one with my teeth, it slipped down the length of my windpipe and I almost choked. I saw the big burly waiter coming for me and figured there's no way I'm letting that guy give me the heimlich, so I ran outside and made myself throw up!

Dublinmackem

I wouldn't not have a dish just because it's chicken, depends on the dish as a whole and what the starter or main is in terms of meat, some really great Italian, Lebanese, Mexican and French chicken dishes I'd have no problem ordering, your probably limiting the menu by about 40% also by chopping the chicken

My fav thing to order would be Lobster, buts its nuts the price of it, when you do get it. Always order it when Im away as its usually cheaper.

magick

nice pan roasted chicken?! oh yes!

Pang

I have never ordered chicken. I just think that if you're heading out and paying for a meal, it's worth trying something different or something you wouldn't normally make at home. It's good to have variety in the diet.

ArtyC

I never understood going out for Italian. Pizza and pasta are my poor foods

xzanti

I love chicken.. I would often go for the chicken breast option on any menu..

Very filling, low in fat and quite tasty.. Yum.

Teyla Emmagan

I think this is bizarre too. Why go to a restaurant and order something you can so easily cook at home? I think chicken is fine, but i never get excited about eating it so wouldn't dream of ordering it when I was out. Unless there is absolutely nothing else on the menu. And in most restaurants, particularly ethnic ones, you have no idea about the provenance of the chicken. For someone who isn't a big chicken fan, I am super fussy about it. Normally unless I know it's really good I'd rather just skip it.

Never something I've thought about, but thinking about it now, unless it's on a pizza, nope, I don't.

eyeball kid

Normally like to try something different when I eat out, be that lamb, chicken, beef, fish or what ever else is on the menu.
Definitely wouldn't say that chicken is a waste. Steak to me is something that you can normally cook at home easily enough and just the way you like it.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Why hasnt anyone mentioned the staple of the pissed paddy the Snackbox?

shruikan2553

Depends on how it is cooked or what its with. I can cook something with beef as easily as chicken so it doesnt really matter. I only tend to avoid seafood because I dont like it and lamb because it tends to be fatty.

Wibbles19

First thing I will always order is fish, everything fish, cause I don't have to listen to the kids giving out about the smell of fish in the house when I cook it.

kowloon

Lapin wrote: »

Very true.

Easiest thing in the world to cook too.

You'd be surprised how many people screw it up though.

The supermarkets cut them thin so they look bigger (in area) on those Styrofoam trays.
Then people dry them out like a piece of leather under a crappy grill or stick them onto a frying pan wet to semi-boil.
That's when they figure the stuff in the restaurant is much nicer than anything they do at home.

I can't cook, but a good steak is something I can manage. It's such a small amount of effort.

Problem123456

Wibbles19 wrote: »

First thing I will always order is fish, everything fish, cause I don't have to listen to the kids giving out about the smell of fish in the house when I cook it.

Is that code word for sex?

Minderbinder

There are some really nice chicken dishes in restaurants that you wouldn't normally make at home. It's the same as ordering any other meat.

Only thing that annoys me in a restaurant is someone ordering a steak well done... such a waste. Is it an Irish thing that we want our food cooked to the point of cremation?

Czarcasm

Minderbinder wrote: »

Only thing that annoys me in a restaurant is someone ordering a steak well done... such a waste. Is it an Irish thing that we want our food cooked to the point of cremation?

I always ordered my steak well done (can't really eat red meat any more, hence past tense, doc had me cut down), but I don't think it was ever an Irish "thing". It seems more "nouveau cuisine" to order steak rare nowadays, or if you want to be really pretentious- order your steak done bleu.

I read an article recently too in one of the papers about Bord Failte trying to have restaurants do away with Irish traditional dishes like bacon and cabbage from their menus and adopt a more European cuisine to accommodate tourists.

Some of the top chefs in the top restaurants and hotels in the country, thankfully told them to get bent!

daRobot

ArtyC wrote: »

I never understood going out for Italian. Pizza and pasta are my poor foods

Then you've never eaten proper Italian food.

kowloon

Czarcasm wrote: »

Some of the top chefs in the top restaurants and hotels in the country, thankfully told them to get bent!

Tourists coming here don't necessarily want to try something they can easily get anywhere at home, seems like a pretty dumb thing for a tourist board to think up.

Joe10000

Order chicken to do what ?

dfx-

Don't order chicken or steak much at all.

Lamb or duck would be my pick