Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Jade Orchid Shanghai Restaurant - Crystal Mall, Burnaby
Recipe for a satisfying lunch at the other food outlet at Crystal Mall that serves siu lone bows (meat dumplings). Northern Meixi was reviewed previously.
serving for 2, takes about 20 minutes.
1 order of 5 siu lone bows ($3.50)
Add a $4.95 bowl of pork chop noodles.
Mix a $5.25 bowl of wonton soup (10 wontons).
Stir
Throw in a short 15 minutes wait,
then presto, a meal for 2 that will satisfy the munchies.
Serve with tea and styrofoam bowls.
serving for 2, takes about 20 minutes.
1 order of 5 siu lone bows ($3.50)
Add a $4.95 bowl of pork chop noodles.
Mix a $5.25 bowl of wonton soup (10 wontons).
Stir
Throw in a short 15 minutes wait,
then presto, a meal for 2 that will satisfy the munchies.
Serve with tea and styrofoam bowls.
# posted by Mr Foodie @ 11:43 PM 
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Your comments that “serving for 2, takes about 20 minutes” is a reminder to a solitary friendless guy like myself that it’s very difficult for me, as a solitary friendless guy, to find an eating establishment I’m comfortable eating in.
Whenever I’ve summoned up the courage to enter a restaurant alone and ask for a table and the server asks me for how many and I say just for one I always get the feeling I’m upsetting the applecart for as I look over the tables and see them all occupied by two people or more I feel very self-conscious as I’m directed to my table and I sit down feeling as welcome as a zit on a manicured nose.
The longer I sit there and eat my food the more I feel the gazes from the other patrons who are no doubt whispering to each other about that poor guy there who must have no friends because he’s eating all alone, before they resume looking at each other all lovey dovey-like. I’m getting so sick and tired of this I’ve almost abandoned eating out, and if I do it’s almost always nowadays at a greasy spoon where all you see is other lonely friendless guys like me sitting along the counter hunched over their food and slurping coffee.
And my feelings of being a social outcast even extend to when I’m shopping for food at a supermarket, for everything is tinned and packaged for more than one person, so that I have to throw lots of food out because it doesn’t stay fresh after I open the tin. I sometimes get around this by eating all the food in the tin in one go so as not to have to throw half of it out, but all this extra eating has caused me to get fat. So maybe this is why lonely unsociable guys like me are usually fat because we have to eat as much as two or more people since we can’t bear throwing out uneaten food. And the fatter we become, the less girls want to have anything to do with us so the lonelier and more depressed we become. It just isn’t fair.
Some years ago Campbell’s came out with soup-for-one, which made me happy because I saw it as a symbol of society finally accepting lonely friendless guys like me and, more practically, I could now cut down on my food bill because I no longer needed to throw out uneaten rancid soup I’d paid for. So my staple diet became Campbell’s soup-for-one and I thought I was in heaven because not only was I spending less on food, I became less fat
But this wasn’t the most healthy of diets and so I developed skin problems that made me look, like, reely reely gross. Even though I was as mad as hell when Campbell’s ceased making the soup-for-one, I realized it was a blessing in disguise because I again began to eat stuff other than Campbell’s soup like baked beans and chilli and so my skin problems lessened because I was now eating a more balanced diet. On the other hand I again became fat because I was again having to eat as much as two people or more.
I don’t know what to do. Do you have any advice?
Whenever I’ve summoned up the courage to enter a restaurant alone and ask for a table and the server asks me for how many and I say just for one I always get the feeling I’m upsetting the applecart for as I look over the tables and see them all occupied by two people or more I feel very self-conscious as I’m directed to my table and I sit down feeling as welcome as a zit on a manicured nose.
The longer I sit there and eat my food the more I feel the gazes from the other patrons who are no doubt whispering to each other about that poor guy there who must have no friends because he’s eating all alone, before they resume looking at each other all lovey dovey-like. I’m getting so sick and tired of this I’ve almost abandoned eating out, and if I do it’s almost always nowadays at a greasy spoon where all you see is other lonely friendless guys like me sitting along the counter hunched over their food and slurping coffee.
And my feelings of being a social outcast even extend to when I’m shopping for food at a supermarket, for everything is tinned and packaged for more than one person, so that I have to throw lots of food out because it doesn’t stay fresh after I open the tin. I sometimes get around this by eating all the food in the tin in one go so as not to have to throw half of it out, but all this extra eating has caused me to get fat. So maybe this is why lonely unsociable guys like me are usually fat because we have to eat as much as two or more people since we can’t bear throwing out uneaten food. And the fatter we become, the less girls want to have anything to do with us so the lonelier and more depressed we become. It just isn’t fair.
Some years ago Campbell’s came out with soup-for-one, which made me happy because I saw it as a symbol of society finally accepting lonely friendless guys like me and, more practically, I could now cut down on my food bill because I no longer needed to throw out uneaten rancid soup I’d paid for. So my staple diet became Campbell’s soup-for-one and I thought I was in heaven because not only was I spending less on food, I became less fat
But this wasn’t the most healthy of diets and so I developed skin problems that made me look, like, reely reely gross. Even though I was as mad as hell when Campbell’s ceased making the soup-for-one, I realized it was a blessing in disguise because I again began to eat stuff other than Campbell’s soup like baked beans and chilli and so my skin problems lessened because I was now eating a more balanced diet. On the other hand I again became fat because I was again having to eat as much as two people or more.
I don’t know what to do. Do you have any advice?
One is reminded of a quote from Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders rock band: 'You come in and go out of this world solo, so get use to it.' One can take solace in her brand of stoicism.
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