“What will soon transpire will influence what happens in the future”
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Serves me right for ordering a dirty Chinky from Archway Road :-(
“What will soon transpire will influence what happens in the future”
:clap:
Serves me right for ordering a dirty Chinky from Archway Road :-(
Transpirational stuff, there.
Oh, and you're lacist.
What did you order? Singapore Noodles, chicken balls and red gloop are all givens, but what else?Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
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 treatQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Christ, so I have. And pretty recently, too. Is it dementia?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Wonton soup, pork ribs and egg fried rice. A half-hearted order, I'd be first to admit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Ordering rice rather than Singapore noodles is madness, man! Apart from anything else, it's harder to eat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Good call on the ribs, though.
This was yesterday's din dins. I only found the fortune cookie when I went to chuck out the detritus this morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
But yes, there never seems a good enough reason to eat Chinese for lunch, though an Indian even less so.
You don't feel that the absence of balls with pink fluorescent gloop was a mistake?Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Have you been to Temper yet? I'm going to try it next week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
In the states, isn't Chinese the sort of traditional Jewish meal?*Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
*I base this purely on my viewing of US sitcoms.
This was less an 'occasion' takeaway, and more a 'need to eat quickly, can't be f*cked to cook' takeaway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
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.
Never heard of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Broadwick Street innit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...iew-jay-rayner
I think the one he talks about is/was on Finchley Road.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I asked him for an old-school recommendation once and he suggested Phoenix Palace in Baker Street. Absolutely superb. Terrible service too :cloud9: