:hehe: I’ve just opened the laziest ever fortune cookie message

[Monty92]

“What will soon transpire will influence what happens in the future”

:clap:

Serves me right for ordering a dirty Chinky from Archway Road :-(

[Ash]

Transpirational stuff, there.

Oh, and you're lacist.

[Burney]

“What will soon transpire will influence what happens in the future”

:clap:

Serves me right for ordering a dirty Chinky from Archway Road :-(

What did you order? Singapore Noodles, chicken balls and red gloop are all givens, but what else?

[Sir C]

“What will soon transpire will influence what happens in the future”

:clap:

Serves me right for ordering a dirty Chinky from Archway Road :-(

Chinese, at lunchtime? This is some radical shít. I've only ever eaten chinese at lunchtime once (other than when in chineeland) and that was in a restaurant in Tewkesbury. It was shít.

Hold on, I used to eat chinese at lunchtime regularly. There was a client who used to take me to China Tang at the Dorchester regularly, and others I would meet in various chinese places in Bayswater. Thais, you see. Couldn't bear to eat the 'Thai' food in London, so stuck to chinese. So, in short, my first paragraph is nonsense. :-(

[Burney]

Chinese, at lunchtime? This is some radical shít. I've only ever eaten chinese at lunchtime once (other than when in chineeland) and that was in a restaurant in Tewkesbury. It was shít.

Hold on, I used to eat chinese at lunchtime regularly. There was a client who used to take me to China Tang at the Dorchester regularly, and others I would meet in various chinese places in Bayswater. Thais, you see. Couldn't bear to eat the 'Thai' food in London, so stuck to chinese. So, in short, my first paragraph is nonsense. :-(

Also, I've known you visit places on your own and go to an all you can eat chinky for lunch as a special treat

[Sir C]

Also, I've known you visit places on your own and go to an all you can eat chinky for lunch as a special treat

Christ, so I have. And pretty recently, too. Is it dementia?

[Monty92]

What did you order? Singapore Noodles, chicken balls and red gloop are all givens, but what else?

Wonton soup, pork ribs and egg fried rice. A half-hearted order, I'd be first to admit.

[Burney]

Wonton soup, pork ribs and egg fried rice. A half-hearted order, I'd be first to admit.

Ordering rice rather than Singapore noodles is madness, man! Apart from anything else, it's harder to eat.

Good call on the ribs, though.

[Monty92]

Chinese, at lunchtime? This is some radical shít. I've only ever eaten chinese at lunchtime once (other than when in chineeland) and that was in a restaurant in Tewkesbury. It was shít.

Hold on, I used to eat chinese at lunchtime regularly. There was a client who used to take me to China Tang at the Dorchester regularly, and others I would meet in various chinese places in Bayswater. Thais, you see. Couldn't bear to eat the 'Thai' food in London, so stuck to chinese. So, in short, my first paragraph is nonsense. :-(

This was yesterday's din dins. I only found the fortune cookie when I went to chuck out the detritus this morning.

But yes, there never seems a good enough reason to eat Chinese for lunch, though an Indian even less so.

[Sir C]

Wonton soup, pork ribs and egg fried rice. A half-hearted order, I'd be first to admit.

You don't feel that the absence of balls with pink fluorescent gloop was a mistake?

[Sir C]

This was yesterday's din dins. I only found the fortune cookie when I went to chuck out the detritus this morning.

But yes, there never seems a good enough reason to eat Chinese for lunch, though an Indian even less so.

Have you been to Temper yet? I'm going to try it next week.

[Monty92]

Ordering rice rather than Singapore noodles is madness, man! Apart from anything else, it's harder to eat.

Good call on the ribs, though.

The thing is, I grew up going to really mediocre Chinese restaurants with my family, and developed a sentimental attachment to them that endures to this day. Oddly, Jewish families eating in bad Chinese restaurants seems to be a 'thing'. I believe Giles Coren has written at length about this too. My missus reckons it's because they don't tend to mix meat and dairy.

[Sir C]

The thing is, I grew up going to really mediocre Chinese restaurants with my family, and developed a sentimental attachment to them that endures to this day. Oddly, Jewish families eating in bad Chinese restaurants seems to be a 'thing'. I believe Giles Coren has written at length about this too. My missus reckons it's because they don't tend to mix meat and dairy.

Giles Coren always talks about the one they ate in in Hampstead. It was the 1970s so it was probably shít but a bit upmarket.

[Burney]

The thing is, I grew up going to really mediocre Chinese restaurants with my family, and developed a sentimental attachment to them that endures to this day. Oddly, Jewish families eating in bad Chinese restaurants seems to be a 'thing'. I believe Giles Coren has written at length about this too. My missus reckons it's because they don't tend to mix meat and dairy.

In the states, isn't Chinese the sort of traditional Jewish meal?*


*I base this purely on my viewing of US sitcoms.

[Monty92]

You don't feel that the absence of balls with pink fluorescent gloop was a mistake?

This was less an 'occasion' takeaway, and more a 'need to eat quickly, can't be f*cked to cook' takeaway.

It was a Deliveroo jobbie. I'm assuming no self-respecting food outlet would have anything to do with the c*nts, given that their workers have a habit of tipping your f*cking food upside down as they try to make up for their sh*t wages by reaching your house at double quick speed.

[Monty92]

Have you been to Temper yet? I'm going to try it next week.

Never heard of it.

[Sir C]

Never heard of it.

Broadwick Street innit.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/11/temper-restaurant-review-jay-rayner

[Monty92]

Giles Coren always talks about the one they ate in in Hampstead. It was the 1970s so it was probably shít but a bit upmarket.

I think the one he talks about is/was on Finchley Road.

I asked him for an old-school recommendation once and he suggested Phoenix Palace in Baker Street. Absolutely superb. Terrible service too :cloud9: