The everyday blog of Richard Bartle.
RSS feeds: v0.91; v1.0 (RDF); v2.0; Atom.
10:36am on Saturday, 22nd February, 2020:
Anecdote
On Fridays, we often eat out. Yesterday, we were deciding where to go and hit on the idea of visiting our favourite Chinese restaurant.
Normally, we would reject the idea of going there because it's always so busy that you have to book some time in advance. However, we figured that enough people would think that Chinese people living in the UK had a higher chance of catching the new coronavirus than anyone else living in the UK that they wouldn't go.
This indeed seemed to be correct. We showed up and immediately got a table because the restaurant was only half-full (or, from their perspective, half-empty). It remained so until we left. Normally, there would be queues for the takeaway service, let alone actual tables. Yesterday, there was no-one waiting for takeaways at all.
One of the dishes I ordered, some kind of minced pork and water chestnut concoction with a salted egg on top, raised the concerns of the waiter. "It's very Chinese", he cautioned me. I guess that in the past there have been people not used to Chinese food who have ordered it and been disappointed, and that most of the sales of it are to people who are experts in eating the cuisine. I figured it couldn't be all that challenging, and was proven correct: it was basically like a beefburger patty except twice the diameter, made of pork, and more gelatinous.
The only health problems I was likely to suffer from eating there were going to be from over-eating, not from catching diseases that are transmitted by teleportation.
Latest entries.
Archived entries.
About this blog.
Copyright © 2020 Richard Bartle (richard@mud.co.uk).