The Finite

The asian food here is… unfortunate. I’m sorry if I sound pretentious, but I think that I know a fair bit more than most about it. Number one on the list of Asian foods: rice. The dining courts (buffets, remember) serve up big pans of long-grain, meaning that 9 times out of 10, it’s been microwaved or stir-fried. Hence, it has no “cling”, no stickiness that makes eating it with chopsticks possible. (They provide no chopsticks.) It’s simply too dry meaning that they don’t use rice steamers. Understandable, yet annoying.

Second on the list of Asian staple foods: Sweet and sour chicken. 4 times out of 5, it was way too salty. The only time it wasn’t too salty was at Ford dining court which is the only dining court where I saw a Chinese lady cooking it.

Last of all, there’s a restaurant in the Union called Lemongrass, which claims to serve Southeast Asian cuisine, like Thai and stuff. I thought it had potential as an approximation of the food back home until I actually received my food (from a white guy incidentally). My curry chicken was cold, bland, limp and had potato in it. POTATO! You don’t have potato in Asian cuisine. That’s like having a matzo ball floating next to a pork meatball. Unless you’re Ming Tsai, this is one thing you just do not do. It’s taboo. Like cooking and serving childhood pets after telling them that their pet duck flew away without saying goodbye.

I miss Plucky.

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