OK, the Christmas dinner/chinese food thread brought this to mind...

One of the great things about living in Toronto is the large Asian community
and, therefore, the amazingly great chinese food :-) I suspect that in a
lot of the restaurants we go to we only know about half the menu 'cause the
rest is written in chinese characters on posters on the wall; and the menus
we english-speakers get are often very literal translations from the
original language (I love going to the restaurants with Asian friends--I
just sit back, let them do the ordering and get amazing food).

So anyway...hubby and I are in a Dim Sum place a week or so ago--it's of the
variety where you order from a menu rather than graze from carts--and one of
the food items was "Deep Fried Boneless Skinless Chicken Feet." We didn't
order it, but have been wondering ever since: when you remove the bones and
remove the skin from the chicken feet, what's left to deep fry?

Marie

In article ogers.com,
says...
OK, the Christmas dinner/chinese food thread brought this to mind...

One of the great things about living in Toronto is the large Asian community
and, therefore, the amazingly great chinese food :-) I suspect that in a
lot of the restaurants we go to we only know about half the menu 'cause the
rest is written in chinese characters on posters on the wall; and the menus
we english-speakers get are often very literal translations from the
original language (I love going to the restaurants with Asian friends--I
just sit back, let them do the ordering and get amazing food).

{Waves from southern Scarberia.}

So anyway...hubby and I are in a Dim Sum place a week or so ago--it's of the
variety where you order from a menu rather than graze from carts--and one of
the food items was "Deep Fried Boneless Skinless Chicken Feet." We didn't
order it, but have been wondering ever since: when you remove the bones and
remove the skin from the chicken feet, what's left to deep fry?

Not much, but it is the usual thing you eat from any animal:
Muscle tissue, namely from the muscles that work the foot.


Although I suppose you could eat the talon.


--
Phoenix

In article ogers.com,
says...
OK, the Christmas dinner/chinese food thread brought this to mind...

One of the great things about living in Toronto is the large Asian community
and, therefore, the amazingly great chinese food :-) I suspect that in a
lot of the restaurants we go to we only know about half the menu 'cause the
rest is written in chinese characters on posters on the wall; and the menus
we english-speakers get are often very literal translations from the
original language (I love going to the restaurants with Asian friends--I
just sit back, let them do the ordering and get amazing food).

{Waves from southern Scarberia.}

So anyway...hubby and I are in a Dim Sum place a week or so ago--it's of the
variety where you order from a menu rather than graze from carts--and one of
the food items was "Deep Fried Boneless Skinless Chicken Feet." We didn't
order it, but have been wondering ever since: when you remove the bones and
remove the skin from the chicken feet, what's left to deep fry?

Not much, but it is the usual thing you eat from any animal:
Muscle tissue, namely from the muscles that work the foot.


Although I suppose you could eat the talon.


--
Phoenix

In article ogers.com,
says...
OK, the Christmas dinner/chinese food thread brought this to mind...

One of the great things about living in Toronto is the large Asian community
and, therefore, the amazingly great chinese food :-) I suspect that in a
lot of the restaurants we go to we only know about half the menu 'cause the
rest is written in chinese characters on posters on the wall; and the menus
we english-speakers get are often very literal translations from the
original language (I love going to the restaurants with Asian friends--I
just sit back, let them do the ordering and get amazing food).

{Waves from southern Scarberia.}

So anyway...hubby and I are in a Dim Sum place a week or so ago--it's of the
variety where you order from a menu rather than graze from carts--and one of
the food items was "Deep Fried Boneless Skinless Chicken Feet." We didn't
order it, but have been wondering ever since: when you remove the bones and
remove the skin from the chicken feet, what's left to deep fry?

Not much, but it is the usual thing you eat from any animal:
Muscle tissue, namely from the muscles that work the foot.


Although I suppose you could eat the talon.


--
Phoenix

In article ogers.com,
says...
OK, the Christmas dinner/chinese food thread brought this to mind...

One of the great things about living in Toronto is the large Asian community
and, therefore, the amazingly great chinese food :-) I suspect that in a
lot of the restaurants we go to we only know about half the menu 'cause the
rest is written in chinese characters on posters on the wall; and the menus
we english-speakers get are often very literal translations from the
original language (I love going to the restaurants with Asian friends--I
just sit back, let them do the ordering and get amazing food).

{Waves from southern Scarberia.}

So anyway...hubby and I are in a Dim Sum place a week or so ago--it's of the
variety where you order from a menu rather than graze from carts--and one of
the food items was "Deep Fried Boneless Skinless Chicken Feet." We didn't
order it, but have been wondering ever since: when you remove the bones and
remove the skin from the chicken feet, what's left to deep fry?

Not much, but it is the usual thing you eat from any animal:
Muscle tissue, namely from the muscles that work the foot.


Although I suppose you could eat the talon.


--
Phoenix