Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Chinese Fast Food Take Out & Eat In
The sun bleached photographs of various selections drew me in along with the other bold signs. A few people eating in mostly Asians, an Asian girl in fount of me gives her order to the bright eyed counter guy, he then finds it on the paper menu and rattles it off on the microphone to the chef. After she's done she whips out her phone and talks super fast Chinese to somebody. I'm up next, Orange flavored chicken and Wonton soup, bright eyes looks at menu and fires off order over the man in the back, man in back gives me a look at then gets back to the job at hand. Soon the meal is up served in white Styrofoam finery. Find a place to sit, place is sorta a wreck, sit near snoopy "i ok your ok" banner. Food's good, rice a little lumpy, frumpy American women behind me is complaining about how the Styrofoam dinnerware is environmentally unkind, yeah, yeah, i guess your right, give it a rest, blah, blah blah now she's fixated on the correct pronunciation of "Lo Mein." Environmentally unkindness pushed into trash, plastic tray put on top, out i go. On way back notice once graffiti laced alley now a wild west gunslinger scene, i spend some time but leave before i have to defend myself and "draw".

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