Just needed to share this with someone… somewhere… it was so odd.
So went out last night to an asian restaurant, it’s a sort of bigger chain but only has a few places so I thought it might be worth a go. We were just thinking about somewhere easy to get to and I fancied ramen. Which in the end wasn’t that great.
So I order some Korean bbq ramen and my wife decides to go for the duck pancakes. Young girl takes our order and It’s brought over by a young guy, in fact all the servers and everyone working there look like a bunch of teenagers. As he goes to set down my wife’s plate he for some reason asks, “would you like me to shred your duck?” The question kinda throws my wife and she is basically just says “uhh yeah… sure.” Thinking it might be a table experience like cutting steak or something.
Anyway I see the soul literally leave the boy as he turns away from us to an empty table and starts shredding… the entire restaurant picks up on something odd going on as we all watch him shred… it goes on for soooo long. By this stage I am laughing my ass off at the weirdness of what is going on.
Eventually he turns back with the plate, handing it back having used the cutlery that came with the dish. We didn’t have the guts to mention to him and told the other person who took our order to get new ones.
To be fair, the duck was shredded to an excellent standard! At least made us laugh!
At our local place they will make a show of shredding the duck at your table, but the server who does the shredding is some sort of ninja who takes a matter of moments over the work.
Is it normal to receive it unshredded? How odd.
No, it’s always shredded or sliced. Often at the table. This seems like a case of a chain restaurant trying to copy an authentic experience but without the necessary training to do so.
Yeah I haven’t really seen that before either although I haven’t got duck pancake in years, it’s normally at least a little shredded.
