House Fried Rice (Re-edited)
Have you ever been to an ethnic restaurant?
What are those Chinese cooks eating back there sitting on those boxes,
It sure doesn’t look like my General Tso’s chicken.
“Geez, I would like to try real Chinese food”
I would ask you,
Can you handle it?
Do you like the other “normal” food they serve?
Are you happy with what you order? Always?
Is the food cheap?
No answer is the same, easy or even needed.
The Chinese restaurant is open all the time because its customers like it that way.
Those few that get sick from yesterday’s rice, will simply be more careful of their selections in the future, but sure as hell they will go back for that delicious Chinese food.
Real Chinese food is not available to all. It is by invitation only.
It is not up to you to know how to get invited. Just be happy with the non-real Chinese food, that way if you ever try the real one and you don’t like it, at least you have the other one.
Understand how difficult it is to find other types of food when you are addicted to a specific one.
So next time you complaint to the manager, understand that even tough he wants you, he does not need you but needs everyone, and until everyone doesn’t complaint management doesn’t change, and if it does, the restaurant will still remain open; somebody else will buy it and will become a chain.
I conclude by writting that if you can't stand Chinese Food (real or not), The Man Ager and their back of the house recipes then tough, because we support their enterprise one way or the other and it is uncertain how long it will take for a change in the vicious cycle. Democracy, Freedom and other delicious dishes in the menu are very expensive but we all like them from time to time and the other not so popular dishes are there becuase is what sells the most when things are "slow".
Never was I thinking about any of this while eating my greasy fried chicken wings dipped in soy sauce and forking out the House Special Fired rice with extra shrimp, nor it came to my mind the day that my passport got stamped at MIA. Is stuff you simply pickup around every block in America. Viva El Gobierno!!!, Andale, Andale, Andale.
posted by Mr Q at 2:57 PM
7 Comments:
Hey Q Baby,
I am not sure it is clear that the Chinese joint is the govenment, the manager is the president and that the customers are citizens, but it is pretty good. I liked the elements of boggs comment post that you did that I do not find here though.
I have 2 stories of Chinese food/restaurants:
I used to work in a chinese restaurant and after we closed - we would eat 'real' chinese food. The owner explained to me that what patrons eat is their celebration food - kinda like us eating turkey [insert alternate celebratory food here] every day. Some of it I liked - other bits I didn't. Found their table manners interesting :-)
Story 2:
We had a local chinese place we would go to - and the guy who answered the phone looked and sounded asian ie Herro Ming Chinese food, take ur order pls?
UNLESS: he then heard a mates voice on the other end and the voice changed [insert broad aussie accent] G'day Mate - watchya up to?
It was the funniest thing to watch :-)
Infi, that is it. This is continuity from my Bogs post. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, so I ellaborated a bit more for ya. Q Baby is right, I will never mature.
;0)
Blue,
Good thing you better than anyone else knows about "real" Chinese food from the restaurant. Story #2 just confirms how the game is played.
hallo misterQ
a goed story of exestentialist which is locked up in orwellian hell of grease food! to enjoy again and again with dull familiarity and heart of resignation.
de honden was shocked so many times when the door of cage was open that they expected the pain and would not leave they pens when chance comes.
Freya, why honds like chinese food?
Or is it that there is nothing better?.
there is always beter.
is time for to maak new posting Q. maybe you interesting werk as noncom? nice day to you Q.
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