So I ordered chinese food this evening, from the local chinese place whose wonton soup is just awesome (you can tell they drop the wonton's in the soup like RIGHT before they burst out the door because even on delivery, they're still "firm").
But, calling in an order is like pulling teeth. I wanted Chicken With Garlic Sauce, Extra Chicken (I end up just tossing the vegetables, I just like the garlic sauce). After going round and round over what "extra chicken" meant... what do I get?
Fried Chicken Wings (with garlic sauce).
I could ALMOST stomach that (they weren't bad, although the fried thing whacks the taste of the garlic sauce) but the real kicker was that the wings are an appetizer so... no rice. Nice hot spicy sauce, and no rice. (I didn't order rice special, because I knew the entree comes with it).
So I ended up with a useless meal. You can't have "hot-ass garlic sauce" with no rice to try and soak up the spices from your mouth.
The problem, of course, is that the best chinese-food places are the ones where the owners are "fresh off the boat" so to speak, bringing the native taste over and haven't yet "americanized" the taste. So you have to choose between "ease of ordering" and "high quality chinese food"....
Thank god the wonton was good. ;-)
You'd think there would be a market for bi-lingual people to work the phones at these places. We have a kick-ass Mexican joint down the road, and the phone chick is lucky I actually paid attention during those two semesters of Spanish.
Damn. Now I'm hungry. Thanks a lot.
What surprises me is the number of Spanish-only speaking people there are... at Chinese restaurants.
Those ordering situations border on comical.
Well, not that comical, when you're hungry and have food allergies besides.