What food do you really want to like but you just can't

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What food do you really want to like but you just can't find any that you love?

For me it's Chinese food. I have dishes that I like more than others, but have never been to or even seen a nice, high quality Chinese restraunt. All the places that people say are "soooo good" are all the same, and range from meh to puke.

I live on the California coast for fuck's sake, I can get top notch Vietnamese and Japanese food just around the corner from my house, yet every single Chinese place is a sticky, sweaty hole that smells like cleaners and serves over-sugared, msg-laiden, mushy slimey grease bombs.

I don't think I dislike Chinese food, but I have yet to find a good Chinese restaraunt. You can get burgers anywhere from McDonald's to a steak house, Italian food ranges from Pizza Hut to local date-night restaraunts. Seafood can be anything from Long John Silvers to $$$ places on the end of a pier. Even Mexican food, which is really more of a "casual" food like Chinese has some really nice sit-downs.

But I've never seen a Chinese restaraunt that isn't run down and cut rate.