DEADLOCK
You respond curtly, as if to mean, “How dull,” “How unamusing,” but I wonder if it takes a dull and unamusing person to interpret such simple and open statements as dull and unamusing.
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I ordered the Hunan chicken.
They served it to me on the same “ming”-style plates that I recognize from home. Except this time, what lay on the plate failed to titillate. Every dish they make involve the same defrosted vegetables, same rubbery meats, same sauce-from-the-cans. The only thing that makes it Hunan, Szechaun, or Sukiyaki, are the various ingredient sequences, and permutations of arrangement- that is, on the “ming” plate.
The fuschia bits in the egg rolls bother me the most. It contradicts my biological instincts, to ingest things that glow fluorescent under UV lights. Though I usually eat everything clean off my plate, I leave the fuschia behind
