I'm tempted to call a FAKE on this one, as anyone who has peanut allergies knows to stay away from chinese food. Everything has peanut oil in it... My allergic friend won't ever eat chinese, even in really fancy restaurant. You should sue the place. Not to be one of those whiny bastards who sues everyone, but that's really, really dangerous. I've got good friends who could die from that kind of stupid stunt.

Hopefully you punched her in her lying ***** mouth.

a friend of mine is allergic to tomatoes and a waiter once claimed that thousand island sauce doesn't contain any tomatoes.. She didn't touch it of course..

Since this is a Chinese restaurant, I'm pretty sure English would not have been her first language. First of all, "doesn't count" I'm pretty sure was the only she knew how to say "that's not what you said" or something along those lines. It is a little your fault (but not enough that I clicked YDI) for not saying "peanut products", and just "peanuts", and her English was probably poor so asking you to clarify would've been a hassle. You could've just asked because you didn't like the actual nut. FYL.

There is a new treatment now available, which desensitises your system to allergic reactions to small quantities of nuts; it was on today's news, here in Australia, so check it out.

First of all i'd like to say that I love Chinese food. But Asians who don't completly understand English are idiots! Once I was going to the a&w drivethrough and asked the woman at the window (who was Asian) if the hamburgers were frozen then cooked. I already knew but I felt like talking. Anyway, the girl at the window was like " oh no, no, no they no frozen they fresh, fresh." all I had to say after was 'that stupid Asian!' ( I didn't actually say that, just in my head)

oh my god! i actually had something really similar happen to me. my family and i were at a resturaunt while on vacation, and the waitress offered my brother a cookie, because his kids meal came with one. thinking that she was being nice, she gave one to me too. naturally, we asked what kind of cookie it was, and she went back to the kitchen to check. she told us it was just a regular chocolate chip, no nuts. turns out it wasn't. i wasn't even in the resturaunt when i reacted, because we had saved the cookies for the ride home. so there we were on the thruway and i start getting nautious and covered in hives, the works. turns out it was a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie. so lucky me, i get to be picked up by an amubulence in the middle of the thruway. on a stretcher. needless to say, we got some money out of the deal. i encourage you to do the same. although, i found out last year at a FAAN meeting that in asian countries, "allergy" translates as "intolerance" so if your waitress didn't speak very good english, that may be part of the problem.

That's a perfectly legitimate reason to sue their asses out of business. Tell her you'll see her in court.

That reminds me of the time I went to Mandarin and had a brownie there. It had nuts in it and there was no warning sign of it. I'm not allergic, but I felt I needed to mention it to someone who worked there. So when we got the bill, I put a comment on the feedback card basically saying " You might want to put lables buy food that contains nuts before someone sues your ass."

Meh, I've had deathly allergic reactions to peanuts and have never had a problem with stuff containing peanut oil. Some people just respond differently to it I guess.