LogFAQs > #926723402

Well, it's been over a month since I moved to Tacoma at this point, and I have tried many new places to eat. I used google, door dash, uber eats, yelp etc to try and find the best Chinese food in my area. I have tried at least 10 places and none of them were even semi-decent.

In fact, there were better places in Olympia/Lacey (not saying much), where I had basically given up completely on getting good food (I found one decent play in west side olympia but it was a good 30 minutes away from me).

I may take a trip to CA in the near future, which I have been planning for years, mainly to get my All Meat Burritos from Hayward, and Porky's Pizza from San leandro. At this point though, I may change my main focus to actually eating good Chinese food, since I can actually make a good burrito myself (Even if I can't get one around here), and while I do love pizza, I can't eat that much of it anymore, with even 3 pieces usually totally filling me up.

I don't understand (at all), how an area can be so desolate of good Chinese food. There is Thai food all over, and Pho places, but seriously you can't even get good BROCOLLI BEEF around here.

Now I'll explain that a bit, I used to get it at places close to where I worked if it wasn't such a great place, just average, because even average places can make a decent Brocolli Beef, I mix the sauce with the rice, and i'm happy. A California place with a rating of 3 out of 10, still makes a good enough BB for lunch (usually very cheap), to satisfy me. I didn't even know people could mess it up so bad, until I moved to washington.

Somehow here, they use bad beef (Seriously everywhere, nobody uses a good lean beef, half the pieces are often so fatty you have to spit them out), most have no clue how to make a sauce, and even if you ask them to cook the brocolli a bit more/steam it extra, it's basically raw. Then they throw in a ton of raw carrots as well.

I do not exaggerate when I say that PF changs frozen BB is actually better then 80% of the places, and I wouldn't have been caught dead eating them in CA (in fact, I vaguely remember trying it when it came out, in CA, and swearing I would never buy it again).

I really should pack up my stuff and move either to CA or to NY (both have great food choices). It just seems like a ton of freaking work, and the cost of living is much higher as well.

Ugh...I don't have the motivation to make many big meals anymore, because it's just me, its' too much work for just one person, and I 'll just eat a sandwich, BBQ a steak etc at home instead.

I really need to buckle down and at least take a trip to CA, it's cheap, and that way I can make sure my taste buds have not just died (although obviously fatty pieces of meat are not a taste bud issue).

Also, I visited NY last year (and the food was yum) and Lynnwood about 5 months ago (and had super delicious pizza while there), so I know I can still enjoy food......I just can't find it:(
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