Being a huge fan of Amazing Chicken and a frequent take away customer, my friend Ruby and I decided it would be nice to get out and enjoy our dinner at the restaurant. It is usually half occupied when I get my take-aways, but tonight it was fairly packed. Ruby and I get a table directly in front of the Media Awards wall where you can read how many times they’ve won The Metro Times best Chinese restaurant award. Most of the awards are extremely yellowed meaning they must have gotten awards for quite some time.
Our waitress, who was charming in a non-English kind of way, quickly brought us our waters. Ruby ordered the Curry Chicken, yum, with a bowl of egg drop soup, equally yum. I ordered the…guess…the Amazing Chicken and a bowl of hot and sour soup.
Our soup arrives promptly. When at a Chinese restaurant, I immediately grab for the soy sauce as if it’s a bag of money, despite my high blood pressure, which is being controlled with Micardis HCL, anywho, I reach across the table to grab the soy sauce and lo and behold 4 rather small but equally offensive cockroaches run out from behind the soy sauce and run directly across my hand then onto the floor. After 10 seconds of shock expire, I jump up and scream not unlike a girl would do. Everyone in the restaurant drops what they’re doing and it’s all eyes on me. Not a fan of attention, I flipped my wig even more. When the kind Oriental owner came over she had a look on her face as if she’s seen this thousands of times over…and if you’ve been there, you would agree. Not even a sorry, or your meal is on us, crockroash no etra charg.
Too upset to eat I demand to my friend Ruby, who is quite fond of food and overeating in general, to leave immediately. Ruby then asks me if we want to get our food as a take away. I publicly chastised her and asked her how can have the gall to take food home that shared the same surface as a family of cockroaches? I walked out and yelled “FILTHY!”
To this day I still order Amazing Chicken take-away. And chit chat with the owner. I can’t help it.
~ Davin Whipplethorpe
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Those awards are extremely yellowed because the people at The Metro Times are racist.
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