Bad Food Club?

G'day to you. I trust you're enjoying summer and having a splendid day so far...not that I intend to spoil it. In fact quite the reverse as I invite you to partake of a marvellously delicious mug of coffee and a virtual doughnut, muffin or pastry. But there is at least one group of people that specializes in seeking out bad food.

The food at Ming General Japanese Sushi Restaurant in Hong Kong is so bad, it actually has its own fan following. In fact the sushi chain is so popular that it has 6 branches located in various parts of the island city, which are regularly visited by bad eaters who dare each other to finish the cheap but hard-to-swallow sushi dishes they serve.

19-year-old Don Tsang, an active member of one of Hong Kong’s ‘bad-eating groups’, said: “It’s the worst. So it’s the most popular.” To me, that’s just weird logic, but it seems to make perfect sense to these groups that actively seek out what they consider bad food, and then spend hours discussing it.

So what exactly is it that makes the food at Ming General so bad? According to food blogger Patrick Lai, 38, the deep fried scallop sushi and the mini-sized prawn sushi are the worst.

“They’re very small and very skinny. I don’t know where the restaurant can find such skinny prawns.” Another notable dish, he said, is the tuna sushi, which is served with a ‘mushy brown pool of liquid topping’. The restaurant is also notorious for its unusual dishes like fruit salad sushi and corn salad sushi.

Hey, I am sure everyone has their own bad food restaurant 'favourite' - a place you wouldn't go back to if you were starving to death. What's yours? We were at one here in Cornwall. It calls itself a Japanese and Thai Restaurant and it's an 'all you can eat' one. The folks who run it are Chinese - not Japanese or Thai. The sushi was not rolled correctly.
In Japan it takes seven years to become a sushi chef. In fact, apprentice chefs are not allowed to touch the food for the first year. (Grammar point... in English grammar, a word ending in 'f' is usually changed to 'ves' in the plural as in leaf to leaves. Well, why isn't chef changed to cheves? Got an answer? Let me know!)

See ya, eh!

Bob