Why are Dominos/Pizza Hut SO expensive?

Raymond Lin said:
The problem is Chinese food in England is not "proper" Chinese food, the reason for the grease is because it is cooked in quite a bit of oil, this is to cook the food quicker. The food i get at home or in Hong Kong is totally different, for 1 thing, you won't find any seafood dish in a Chinese Takeaway, nor there will be any leafy vegetables, or any vegetables that can go brown when store in a container.
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True. Dinner at a chinese mate's house is always better than any take-out. You get some way more interesting dishes too. Same with most take away food types i guess.

As for Pizza, Local Pizzaria>Chain store. You don't get a chicken calzone from dominoes or pizza hut :p . Their pizzas are nice in their own way, but a real fresh pizza is in a totally different league. It's not as cheap as it used to be, but a large pizza is still cheaper than Dominoes, and they don't quibble over delivery either.

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Raymond Lin said:
LOL, there will be no sweet and sour dishes, not curry, no fried rice. There will be lots of leafy veg, steamed fish, stirfried meat with veg and occasionally a roast duck or Pork.
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You say that like it's a bad thing.... :D
 
Personally I buy a base, get some cheese and some tomato puree and I'm away :cool:

Although on rare occassions I have been known to make the dough myself...
 
Raymond Lin said:
The problem is Chinese food in England is not "proper" Chinese food, the reason for the grease is because it is cooked in quite a bit of oil, this is to cook the food quicker. The food i get at home or in Hong Kong is totally different, for 1 thing, you won't find any seafood dish in a Chinese Takeaway, nor there will be any leafy vegetables, or any vegetables that can go brown when store in a container.
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In my experience, which im sure is less than yours :o real chinese food is even greasier than the stuff we have in the UK.
 
Pizza is one of the food's with the largest margin to be made... the ingredients to make them are stupidly cheap.
 
Balddog said:
In my experience, which im sure is less than yours :o real chinese food is even greasier than the stuff we have in the UK.
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Chinese breakfast consist of steamed foods, and "rice boiled with too much water"....... lunch and dinner are pretty much the same thing with boiled rice, steamed fish/chicken/pork ribs. Hardly anything is deep fried.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Chinese breakfast consist of steamed foods, and "rice boiled with too much water"....... lunch and dinner are pretty much the same thing with boiled rice, steamed fish/chicken/pork ribs. Hardly anything is deep fried.
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I dunno what food is like in HK but in shanghai, almost everything I ate was greasy as hell :dunno:

It was great, but very greasy..My chinese mates all warned me of this beforehand cos they thought id be runnin to the bog pretty often :o

Is it just a shanghai thing then?

PS...greasy isnt just fried stuff btw.
 
Balddog said:
I dunno what food is like in HK but in shanghai, almost everything I ate was greasy as hell :dunno:

It was great, but very greasy..My chinese mates all warned me of this beforehand cos they thought id be runnin to the bog pretty often :o

Is it just a shanghai thing then?

PS...greasy isnt just fried stuff btw.
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wild guess but probably a northern thing.
 
Balddog said:
I dunno what food is like in HK but in shanghai, almost everything I ate was greasy as hell :dunno:

Is it just a shanghai thing then?
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I went to Beijin and Xi'an a few years back and we were told that we were being served authentic chinese food and it was all really greasy and didn't sit too well in my stomach :o

It wasn't anything like what we get here either so it wasn't westernised chinese food or anything.
 
M0T said:
I went to Beijin and Xi'an a few years back and we were told that we were being served authentic chinese food and it was all really greasy and didn't sit too well in my stomach :o

It wasn't anything like what we get here either so it wasn't westernised chinese food or anything.
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I have about 6 friends studying in china at the moment and weve come to the conclusion that it takes about 3 months to get used to the chinese food....after 3 months, you dont need to run to the bog straight after you finish eating :o
 
Dominos have had some cracking offers in my area recently, they posted a massive voucher book through the door, any pizza any time any size for £7.99 with del, 50% off orders, bogofs, 2 free sides etc.
 
Balddog said:
Dunno what you ate but i dont know of any korean dish that could look like roadkill :dunno:
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duuno , was some set banquet thing, they kept bringing loads of small dishes of very odd looking stuff :D
 
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