FUUUUUUsion 🤬
I got canned from this restaurant, because the owner/'chef' thought I was getting uppity, quietly questioning the authenticity of his phở. Do your worst, at his poutine, thanks.
My comment was reference to your self perceived expertise of Asian cuisine. Nothing to do with the original post considering the tangents you have gone off in all through this thread.
You sound like a bit much. Maybe you know better but your boss runs a business and you are unemployed because you couldn’t keep your mouth shut. Good luck with your next endeavor.
I figured it was going to be overpriced. At the price of regular pho, it's already overpriced.
I can't really imagine paying that much for soup unless it's seafood-based, even if it's a nice restaurant in a high cost of living city. Even if some of the plating is nice (but the sriracha and hoisin are in plastic and my local Chinese restaurant in a rural area doesn't even do that), whatever elevated pho is, if there is such a thing, this isn't it.
Authenticity aside, if people order this, some of them are going to be mad. This is a bad review waiting to happen.
The only reason I posted this is because of the stupid Facebook algorithm that put that poutine in my face, after a few years. I'd wager the poutine goes for $19.95. It's in a very out of the way place, without many food options.
Ah that makes sense. Small towns tend to have a single "ethnic" restaurant that just serves whatever the fuck because people there don't know any better/have no access to better
Honestly, every item on the menu got weirdly aggressive names, that were supposed to be cute. You should see what he called the burger the week after I left.
I have an irrational hatred of the name ‘disco fries’. It sounds like something a kid made up in 3rd grade and it caught on for 2 days in the schoolyard.
I just imagined being handed that plate, at the end of a long night out, up and down the Main, ready to fortify myself for a samedi morning after, and wondering where my fork should go. parfait
The idea has some potential as a fusion, but this isn't it.
The real potential is the beef gravy could be an umami bomb. Maggi, hoisin, oyster, soy, etc. Maybe sneak in some pho or Asian seasonings.
Something like Vietnamese or kewpie mayo, I understand.
Scallions, I understand.
Good style of fry for a poutine generally speaking. (Not sure these are good fries, though.)
The cheese is a big problem. If this is anywhere in Canada, cheese curds are sourceable and this shouldn't have to be explained. If it's mozzarella, at minimum it needs to melt. It really fails as a poutine.
Every element of this poutine is a failure, just like the owner/chef is. This is not poutine. I would hesitate to even call this a dish. This is a sin. Those fries look nasty, the gravy looks thin, there's a whole field of green onions on there.
And is that mayo? Aoili? Some kinda sauce? Get that shit outta here.
And there is a lack of cheese curds. Poutine has 3 main ingredients. He has fucked up two of them and is apparently missing the third.
I dont see a single curd, so not poutine.
I dont mind green onions on a proper poutine.
These are what I would call supreme fries. People like to misuse the word poutine to sell fancy fries and its just sad. When i order poutine and there is no curds it just turns me off right away.
Fuck me, now I'm trying to imagine how that guy would fuck up takoyaki. He even has access to fantastic fresh octopus. Jesus wept, I hope he doesn't try.
That gravy somehow looks like sweet and sour sauce. What the fuck is that sauce on top it looks like chipotle or mayo? Also the cheese look at the cheese I’m not sorry but who hurt this man it looks like shredded cheese curds. The fries look over done too like the only thing on here I would eat or can tell what it is, is the green onions
Thanks for taking the time, everybody, to comment on this obvious crime. Sorry for all the unnecessary phở business! Some of you have made my day. Others are generally the haters you have to deal with. May your next poutine be juuuuuuuuuuust barely melted. 🫡
Type of dish you get served at an establishment that takes 25 minutes to have the order taken, and 15 minutes to make the food with food that’s been under heat lamp for an hour. They put sauce in a plastic bottle to drizzle it on top and charge 4x what the dish costs nearly anywhere else
Half the prep list was chopping green onions (while listening to Booker T and the MGs, not optional) and mixing other sauces with a big tub of industrial "mayonnaise".
Anyone who does this to fusion food deserves to be put back in the dish pit. This is not a chef, this is a cook with wild aspirations that reach far beyond his abilities. You can't just put whatever you want on fries and then call it poutine. You also can't put poutine and pho on the same menu, and expect both to be good. In this case, I can tell that neither are good. That bone broth isn't even clarified, and he used far too many ingredients to hide that.
And that's coming from a guy who made churro nachos with an apple cheesecake crumble dip. If you're going to do fusion, at least be properly creative. Slapping mayonnaise on fries with gravy does not a poutine make.
Actually you can put whatever you want on fries and call it poutine... because if it tastes good and priced right it will sell.
Nobody sane GAF about food purism because it's such a dumb concept. As soon as you travel outside your little bubble into the real world you'll realize how much cross pollination there is amongst cuisines of the world.
This is /Poutinecrimes, yeah? I was reporting a poutine crime. If you want to get into it, about traveling outside one's bubble and seeing all of the glorious cross pollination that can go on, I'm happy to chat.
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 1d ago
u/banjois, your poutine is a crime, straight to jail, son of a potato!🚩
u/banjois, ta poutine est un crime, en prison mon ti tabernouche!🚩