Monday, June 02, 2003

All-You-Can-Choke-Down So I'm in San Antonio today shopping for clothes to wear to a friend's wedding this weekend, and I decide to grab lunch at my favorite chinese buffet place:  Chopsticks.  The place is awesome.  Five buffet tables plus a grill where some guy was firing up fish, egg foo young, shiskabobs, and who knows what else.  While I was constructing my second mammoth plate of food, a man next to me said, "I wish my wife cooked like this."  I asked him if he also meant this much. But the strange thing about me and Chopsticks is that although there's a huge array of food, I almost always get the same thing.  I'll first put a bed of white rice on my plate, then throw on some beef and broccoli, general chicken, pepper steak, and then maybe some noodles to top it off.  I rarely vary from that formula.  If I'm feeling particularly daring, I might get an egg roll.  Once I'm almost stuffed, I'll cram a slice of chocolate cheesecake down my throat, ask for the ticket, and then wobble out of there.  Such was the case today. And that reminds me.  A friend once told me to add "in bed" to the end of the fortune in your cookie.  Mine today was something like "You have a way of charming with words."  In bed, of course.  Try that with your next fortune cookie.  It's hilarious. Tenuously related links: Do Chinese restaurants use cats in their meals? 102 Ways That You Know You're Chinese Bad Cookie: An online fortune cookie  10:58:07 PM     |

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