[bigislandboxster]

Personally, I take exception to putting peanuts in chinese food, i.e. Kung Pao chicken.

Peanuts are for salting and nibbling on while drinking beer or flying commercially. It clearly states that on the shell.

I think Thai cuisine uses peanuts too...and to add insult to injury they often add coconut.

Basically, keeping nuts segregated from the entree strikes me as the best policy.

We think alike when it comes to nuts in Chinese food.....I hate'm! The only nuts I eat are macadamia.....
No problem with water chestnuts tho, I actually like them....