Worse Lunch

I’m never eating out in Rexburg again. For these last two upcoming inter-city runs, I’m packing a lunch. Today I got a hankering for Chinese food and I spotted a place called the Mandarin. First off, I should qualify this by mentioning that I was married to a Japanese lady, our best friend was Miss Chinatown USA and we visited every great oriental restaurant in the Bay Area over several years. I know that cuisine.

The place was really plain inside. There were booths around three walls with tables in the middle and if there was any artwork in there, I don’t remember it. I was greeted and waited on by an old white woman.

There were two categories of lunch specials, one $6 the other $8. I couldn’t discern why one would cost more than the other, and half came with chow mein while the rest came with fried rice.

I ordered the $6 Sweet and Sour pork with fried rice. What I got was a smallish plate with a scoop of fried rice on the right and a pile of deep-fried light brown balls with a smattering of sauce, on the left. Not pork pieces with pineapple in thick sauce, nope. What the hell’s wrong with these Idaho hicks? Take a trip to Chinatown will ya!

I was hungry so I ate it. The deep fried balls were thick battered things with a little piece of pork buried in the middle. The rice was bland. I couldn’t finish it. That stupid meal is sitting so badly in my stomach that I’m skipping dinner tonight. Sad…

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4 comments

  1. I’m so sorry your lunch wasn’t good. I hate it when you expect one thing and get another. I love oriental food. I made chow mien and rice it went very fast. Thanks again for the birthday song.

  2. Your great-grandson was listening to your birthday song on the IPad while they were leaving Graceland yesterday. Hey, he could have been playing Elvis!

  3. That pretty much sums it up :-) and Idaho hicks does not apply to my friends born and raised here, just to those that foolishly open Chinese restaurants.

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