food & decor
Today we were eating at our regular China Buffet - our city has Chinese buffets everywhere, like the McDonald's of Asian food - but there is one we generally eat at. If you time it just right (about 20 minutes before the dinner rush) the food is hot and fresh and it's not too crowded. It's also really cheap.
The food there is the usual stuff one finds at a Chinese buffet: rice, sweet & sour chicken, fried rice, beef & vegetables, the banana/strawberry mix that is mandatory at every Chinese buffet, etc. They also have added "American" food over the past several months. It started simply enough with frozen pizza remniscent of elementary school pizza and (really bad) chicken nuggets. Now they've added chicken tacos and pigs in a blanket.
The decor at this buffet has altered over the past year or so as well. The basic look is mauve booths and tables with gaudy, giant chandeliar light things hanging from the ceiling. There are also those huge paintings with the tiny flashing lights in them, the kind that people sometimes sell from their van on the side of the road. The decorations from last year's Chinese New Year haven't all come down, so there's some Christmas garland along the ceilings and a few little pictures. Which go nicely with the Christmas tree they've added to the entrance. And of course there are a few photo calendars of the university sports teams - my favorite being the womens' lacrosse photo calendar that is now about 4 years old.
For awhile they had put up photographs of either a very famous Asian model/actress or someone who worked there, I could never tell for sure. A few trips ago, these photos were taken down, to be replaced with black light posters. I think they may be fuzzy faux-velvet black light posters, but we never sit close enough to tell for sure. These things are hideous, with their black background and bright neon orange/green/yellow colors. The four posters are of (from left to right)
1. A Chinese style dragon (Ok - see that kind of makes sense. They have sort of a dragon theme going on there with the menus and things.)
2. A European style dragon (Well, maybe it was a 4 pack of dragon posters?)
3. A cobra ready to strike (What the hell - who wants a giant, scary. glowing snake glaring at them while they try to eat their veggie delight with all of the tofu picked out? And what does that have to do with dragons?)
4. A castle scene, where a European style dragon is preparing to strike
I haven't quite been able to figure out why the black light posters were put up over the past few months. Today while I was staring at them, pondering which one of the employees picked them out and wondering if maybe they all get high after close and giggle at them under a secret black light, I noticed a new addition to the decor. Right in between the dragon and cobra - a clock. A wooden clock shaped like a boat anchor. Where all of the numbers would be are various shapes of anchors. It's something that your dad would put up in his den because he loved boats, even though he never went sailing in his life. There it is, right between dragon #2 and the cobra.
The food there is the usual stuff one finds at a Chinese buffet: rice, sweet & sour chicken, fried rice, beef & vegetables, the banana/strawberry mix that is mandatory at every Chinese buffet, etc. They also have added "American" food over the past several months. It started simply enough with frozen pizza remniscent of elementary school pizza and (really bad) chicken nuggets. Now they've added chicken tacos and pigs in a blanket.
The decor at this buffet has altered over the past year or so as well. The basic look is mauve booths and tables with gaudy, giant chandeliar light things hanging from the ceiling. There are also those huge paintings with the tiny flashing lights in them, the kind that people sometimes sell from their van on the side of the road. The decorations from last year's Chinese New Year haven't all come down, so there's some Christmas garland along the ceilings and a few little pictures. Which go nicely with the Christmas tree they've added to the entrance. And of course there are a few photo calendars of the university sports teams - my favorite being the womens' lacrosse photo calendar that is now about 4 years old.
For awhile they had put up photographs of either a very famous Asian model/actress or someone who worked there, I could never tell for sure. A few trips ago, these photos were taken down, to be replaced with black light posters. I think they may be fuzzy faux-velvet black light posters, but we never sit close enough to tell for sure. These things are hideous, with their black background and bright neon orange/green/yellow colors. The four posters are of (from left to right)
I haven't quite been able to figure out why the black light posters were put up over the past few months. Today while I was staring at them, pondering which one of the employees picked them out and wondering if maybe they all get high after close and giggle at them under a secret black light, I noticed a new addition to the decor. Right in between the dragon and cobra - a clock. A wooden clock shaped like a boat anchor. Where all of the numbers would be are various shapes of anchors. It's something that your dad would put up in his den because he loved boats, even though he never went sailing in his life. There it is, right between dragon #2 and the cobra.
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