The heavily trafficked restaurants in Chinatown, which focus on big-ticket dishes tourists favor, usually offer a bland and gelatinous version.

(I prefer this sauce a little fiery, though a blander version is also pleasant.)

He dismissed the question with a rather bland version of his old sneer.

This is a strangely bland, suburban version of the Americas.

The result is the bland version.

Yet it had more flavor than many bland versions that cost twice as much.

In the dead of winter, supermarkets do sell tomatoes and corn, albeit blander versions of the summer crop.

That's the kind of mild laughter the bland feature-film version of "Hey Arnold!

Unfortunately, the hotels tend to give Western visitors a particularly bland version of English cooking.