Eevee said:
krimson, those sound yummy!! I had those before!!! Where in LA did you go for dinner? Or did you cook yourself? My family members are in Torrance and Irvine and there are tons of Chinese restaurants. By the way, who's the girl on your avatar?
We usually gather at my aunts house, she (stereotypically) used to own a restaurant, til she retired. I live in the center of asian food, the san gabriel valley, equidistant from all the major asian food places in la county.
the girl? a japanese model, whose name i can't recall ATM.
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craig, i believe that there is no such sauce. I just asked my mum and dad, and they've never heard of anything close. It doesn't sound taiwanese.. and while it could be from china, the closest thing is a herbal concoction made of fresh bean sprout (ching doh ling), but that's more medicine than sauce. There are, however, 36 provinces in China, and most, if not all have different sauces and pronounciations.
Chingaling, sounds more like a variation of a slur.. chingchong, chink. I doubt there would have been 'asian fusion' food 12 years ago... so either they heard/reported it wrong, or it was something that someone made up, catering to the local palette... kinda like how fortune cookies came into existence.
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