What does it matter what menu they're off of? If I'd ordered tofu home-style from the other menu, would it have been better? If... oh, never mind. Al Dente said it better.
Yes, actually, it might've been better. Or at least different. Even though the English words appear to be the same, on two different menus at the same restaurant they may well refer to different dishes
One of the first lessons I ever got in Chinese menu decipherment (from the proprietor of the probably defunct Qingdao Garden in Cambridge, who was a really great guy) was that if I ordered double cooked pork from the white side of the menu, I'd get lean pork (yuck) while if I ordered double cooked pork from the purple side of the menu I'd get pork belly (yum!)
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Yes, actually, it might've been better. Or at least different. Even though the English words appear to be the same, on two different menus at the same restaurant they may well refer to different dishes
One of the first lessons I ever got in Chinese menu decipherment (from the proprietor of the probably defunct Qingdao Garden in Cambridge, who was a really great guy) was that if I ordered double cooked pork from the white side of the menu, I'd get lean pork (yuck) while if I ordered double cooked pork from the purple side of the menu I'd get pork belly (yum!)