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They can do what they want with menus, but I hope nobody outlaws Chinese placemats. The day I learned I was born in the “Year of the Cock,” my whole life suddenly made a lot more sense.
I will never understand why some people get so upset about take-out menus by their doors. Maybe if you’re like 90 years old and it’s a genuine hassle to bend over and pick the things up. Maybe.
“People born in the Year of the Rooster are deep thinkers, capable, and talented. They like to be busy and are devoted beyond their capabilities and are deeply disappointed if they fail. People born in the Rooster Year are often a bit eccentric, and often have rather difficult relationship with others. They always think they are right and usually are! They frequently are loners and though they give the outward impression of being adventurous, they are timid. Rooster people¡¦s emotions like their fortunes, swing very high to very low. They can be selfish and too outspoken, but are always interesting and can be extremely brave. They are most compatible with Ox, Snake, and Dragon.”
From here.
I, on the other hand, was the year of the rat. Supposed to be attractive to the opposite sex too… I must need to eat more dim sum!
Yes. It was that place. Go this week, but not on a weekend unless you want to wait for an hour or so. Also remember all the e’s in Berkeley.
“Spend 20 dollar get two free soda”
With the menu of Happy Dynasty Dragon Star being nearly identical to that of China Jade Panda Taste Garden, and Lucky Peking Great Wall Kitchen #2, only one menu is really necessary.
YES THIS ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET. YOU EAT TOO MUCH. THAT ALL YOU CAN EAT. YOU STOP.
Oh, well that’s all true, of course. But I meant the part about me being a dick.
I’m a dog.
Oh, I feel for you.
When we had to move the Taekwondo school about three years ago, we had three locations in mind. They were all fairly equal in terms of traffic, exposure, rent, etc. We chose our current location because it is within walking distance of the Three Dragons Restaurant. Best Chinese food in the city, bar none.
I’m in there at least three times a week. They love us. When we were filming the movie, the entire cast ate in there regularly. We even filmed some scenes in front of it and behind it.
Hmmm…class is over. I hear an order of hot and sour soup, glass noodles and an egg roll calling my name.
Well, having never been to Noo Yawk, I haven’t had a “real” bagel apparently. What’s the diff? And if it ain’t authentic, at least there pretty good- just ask all the people in line any time you walk past.
And I’m willing to go out on the limb with dangermom- it most likely was Zach’s. Two locations- one on Solano Ave on the Albany side of town, and one on College on the Oakland side of town (the one I go to- but I’m pretty sure they’re equivalent). Try the spinach and mushroom deep. They also do parbakes if you want to take it home and have it fresh out of the oven. Yummmmm.
WE DELIVERY
So I guess I shouldn’t be insulted when people say I’m a boar.
Way off topic, but the internet cafe I go to, which is only staffed by Asians AFAICT, has a prompt when you move to another computer during the same session and type in the number off the user card you purchase:
“The place it moves to?”
I get menus thrown all over my steps and yard at least 3 times a week.
Yeah, litter up my yard; that’ll make me want to patronize your establishment.
If just left them by my door, I wouldn’t mind so much. However, my apartment’s screen door has a metal grill outside the screen that extends about 3.5 feet up. Half the time the menus are slipped behind the grill so that they can’t be removed without the risk of tearing the screen out of the frame.
New Chinese joint opened near me. Pounded me with menus/flyers/etc.
“Tasty of China”
Okay, there is another botched menu. I finally drive past the place, situated in the nicest new mini-mall I’ve seen in some time. Very nice architecture, attention to details…even nice signs.
Yep, their sign says, “Tasty of China”. Come on. The frigging sign company couldn’t say something?!
Well, seeing how the sign company was completely staffed by Mexicans… 
Big Time Hijack.
So why is it that Asians generally have so much trouble with plurals?
My SO seems to think that because their language is so tonal, it’s not necessary a sound they even recognize. She speaks a little Arabic and she explained that there are like 4 different ways to pronounce an “H.” Sounds plausible to me, I guess, but it doesn’t explain the written mistakes.
A place near me is called tneirO fo esuoH. Yes, the sign was put in backwards. On both sides. I wondered if they did that on purpose, to attract business. I guess the plywood on the windows answers that question.
I don’t live in NYC anymore, but I did hate having the Chinese menus cluttering up the vestibule in my apartment building. I also hated when a delivery person would gain access to the building and shove menus under every door.
Invariably, the menus left in the vestibule would get all over the floor. We had no doorman and a half-ass cleaning crew that would never pick up in the vestibule, so if some charitable soul didn’t feel like cleaning up when handfuls of them were dropped off, piles of menus tended to accumulate. Apparently, the restaurants believed that more menus equalled more business, and they took that to the extreme. I used to have a little cubby near my door where I’d place menus shoved under the door. It was a kind of penalty box - if a restaurant shoved a menu under my door, they’d go into the penalty box and I wouldn’t order from them for a couple weeks. No joke - I would get three drops a week from the Chinese food place down the block and I stopped ordering from them entirely. Advertising is advertising, but the frequency and volume was over the top. Our building had “no menus” signs all over the place, and I thought it was very disrespectful to go against the tenants’ wishes like this. Thus, the penalty box.
I don’t have anything against Noah’s. I eat their bagels here, they just don’t have the same taste/texture (especially texture) as the ones back east. Baked goods can be highly regional. Maybe it’s climatological? God knows there isn’t really good sourdough for any price in NY.