Right and chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

Big pot of something and hope you find all the bay leaves. You might pull some out, think you've got them all but they like to hide.

They're supposed to bc they're easy to remove. I'd feel better they remain in there bc it's easy to remove and means they're using better quality ingredients more likely. It's no big deal to take them out

Yes but for whatever reason I've often seen it left in and the person eating simply removes them.

I always leave them in because pulling them out is more trouble than it's worth. I'm lazy as hell, but I'm also cooking for just my wife and I.

Literally worst case nobody's going to crack a tooth or something. They get a spoonful of soup with a big leaf in it and they just put the leaf aside.

Sure that wasn't a curry leaf? Either way I'd agree they're beat removed before serving.

I bet he'd like eating boners

They're practically all meat

To be fair, not every Chinese restaurant knows how to slice duck properly. The proper way slices the meat and skin off of the bones, so that each piece has a bit of meat and skin, and presents the flesh separately from the bones.

Some places though just hack into the carcass so that every piece has bone. They say it's 'fun.' I as an ethnic Chinese say it's ridiculous. I have had it done right and I have had it done poorly and surprisingly the price point is the same! Some places really skimp on the seasoning too, at the same price point.

Other dishes tend to be fairly similar across different restaurants but it seems like with duck you can really tell who gives a shit / was trained properly as a chef.

What's the secret phrase to say to see the secret Chinese menu?