Oct. 8, 2006
What are you kidding me? This is too real Chinese food!
I don't care if it's inside of an airport. Chinese people are very business-oriented. They take a lease at the airport, and they put up a restaurant just like everyone else. Chinese people can own a restaurant in an airport. It's the 21st century, afterall.
Yeah, yeah. I know that all the workers behind the counter are black. I have eyes, you know. Even the Chinese, who are a minority in this country, know how to use other minorities as token employees. All the black people serving food keep INS officials from being suspicious.
And look at all the authentic Chinese restaurant items: chopsticks, fortune cookies, Sprite...I'd say this is as Chinese as any restaurant you're going to find, my good friend. If you're eating it with chopsticks, it's probably Chinese. Unless it's Japanese, which is also another cuisine that can be eaten with chopsticks, as I was delighted to learn from a Food Channel program last week.
Do you even have cable? Didn't think so.
Ok. Ok. I will admit that the pictures on the overhead menu bar do look surprisingly commercial, and that the neon "Manchu Wok" sign is very corporate in appearance. But that's just some recent immigrants trying overly hard to impress their new clients. You know how cheap a state-of-the-art camera is over there?
I bet my bottom dollar that there's a small family of Chinese immigrants in that kitchen just trying to scrape up a decent living here in Jefferson City. And I'm gonna help 'em by buying some of their food, so that their kids can grow up and become my doctor when I get old.
You'd be wise to think about getting some culture on a plate, Larry. Try those chopped up, hickory-smoked baby back ribs. It'll be fun to watch you try to chopstick those.