Cor-hinese Food

What is it? Hybrid Irish pseudo "Chinese" food found in Cork and other smaller towns in Ireland. (Dublin, being the bigger and more cosmopolitan of the Irish cities is exempted.)

What is on the Menu:
Fluro pink sweet and sour's second cousin "Kang Po chicken" (yes, I am Chinese and have no idea what the hell that is,) which is chicken pieces served in a sweet orange sauce with potato and peas.
"Satay" made from peanut butter.
English tea served in tea cup and saucer. Or if you're lucky, jasmine tea - the Lipton tea bag form, served in a tea cup and saucer.
For dessert: Apple pie and ice cream. Fruit salad. (Where's my mango or sago pudding....?! ARGH!!!!!!!!)
....And other tasty Chinese style options as per below:

What's on the Table:
Flat dinner plates with fork and knife; not a chopstick in sight.

Most Commonly heard catch phrase: As the big M has already copyrighted "Would you like fries with that?", Irish Chinese restaurants had to make do with, "Would you like chips or rice with that?" Yes, the Irish really CANNOT live without their potato.

Cor-hinese food cannot be mistaken for fusion food, which philosophically aims to incoporate flavours and tastes from the East and the West in a harmonious fashion. Cor-hinese food is instead, something out of my Asian-Italian friends' wedding experience where I had stupid planning skills and ended up lumping a heap of Chinese and Italian food onto the one same plate at their reception buffet.

A picture paints a thousand words...... I had so much enjoyment in taking photos of this Chinese restaurant's window that I think I started to piss off the owners....

(Above: Ew, tao gei and tomato basil pasta sauce is akin to vanilla icecream topped with vegemite!)






(Notice the side of obligatory chips hovering on the side of most of these photos...? Tee hee hee......)

Everybody knows that your typical Chinese restaurant should really look like this:

Go the stereotypes.