Yay! Another! Videoblog!

Yay! Another! Videoblog!
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In which I ramble for six minutes, BUT you get to hear my Squidward imitation AND a restaurant review. Sort of.

Comments

[Rattling the Kettle]

I love restaurants where the waiters start with "Have you been here before? Let me tell you how it works here."

Yeah, it's a restaurant. You give me a menu, I order what I want, you bring it to me, and I eat it. It's pretty much the same at every effin restaurant in the world. Now can you go get me some water? Tap, with some lemon slices. Thanks.

[Karan]

We don't have that restaurant here but I'm with you...I'll roll my own mu shu pork rolls.

Did you know that mu shu means dragon? They taste better if you think you're eating dragon rolls.

[Alison]

Karan,

I did not know that! I brought home the leftovers. I do believe I'll be eating dragon rolls for breakfast.

[kkonmymind]

I love mu shu pork, too. Yum. I think I know what I'm having for dinner. I'll go down the street to the hole in the wall place where the guy yells a lot in Chinese and practically throws your food on the table, though. I bet if I asked him to roll my mu shu pork we'd get some pretty good free entertainment.

[Margaret]

C'est parce que nous(les Americains) sont paresseux. Ici, il pleut-un printemps normal.

[Dan]

Video blogging is cool and the wave of the future (can the future wave ... I mean, really, does it even have hands?)

My current video is of me doing my taxes.

[Dan]

By the way, you and the kitty ROCK!

Now ... do you want me to roll those for you? :)

[AlisonM]

I love mu shu - I have it veggies only, but it's still such a fun dish.

The only place you really should have to ask how to eat something is the really Chinese restaurants that cater to real Chinese diners. In those places, though, you often have to ask WHAT you're eating before you ask how to eat it. Some of that stuff, you can give yourself a really good laugh when you consider that Chinese consider cheese to be gross and disgusting. Heh.

[The CEO]

Holmes heard Mr. Jones on the video, and responded in kind.

[token]

The hair thing at the end was so great, yeah I LOL! And I'm really liking that hanging light fixture I saw when you went for Mr. Jones.

Some day I shall go to PFChangs and I will let them roll my mu shu (non pork) related roll. I will be totally amazed by their dexterity and expertise at mu shu rollin'. "Why I didn't even know pancakes could roll up like that. It's like a little tiny wrap!" And I know you'll know which thick Kentucky accent I'll be laying on.

[DebR]

I haven't tried PF Chang's (yet) but I had that sort of reaction the one time I tried BD's Mongolian Grill over in Hamburg. Between the hostess, the server, and a couple of random who-knows-what-their-job-is employees who wandered up while I was putting stuff in my bowl before taking it up to the grill, I had 4 or 5 people explaining things to me in *excruciating detail* from the time I hit the door until the time I finally got to eat. And I kept thinking geeze, people, this isn't brain surgery. You grab a bowl, throw some raw stuff in it, somebody tosses it on a grill and cooks it, and you eat it. Leave me the hell alone and let me get on with it!! If I go back one of these days I intend to act much more surly and unapproachable. Heh.

[kim]

so, did Allan say to you after you rolled the mu shu...."gooooood jobbbbb"..
that last video blog cracked me up...and while I was laughing...i was thinking....wait a second...do I do that??? ( I have a very clumsy 13 year old, so him making it to the table withouth bumping into or dropping something, would be a feat that I would/could say...."goooood job"...but it would most definately be a very sarcastic and snarky..."gooooood jobbbbb":)
great vlogging...i could never do that....you are a brave women, i must say:)
Kim

[DHG]

LOL

It's just because it's a new one. They'll calm down eventually.

The PF Chang's in Durham is great! I mean, as "great" as mega-chain Chinese food can be. It's surely better than authentic Chinese food... Authentic Chinese food is nasty. I'm all for being an adventurous diner, but I can't handle eyeballs and organ meat. I guess I'm hopelessly American.

Thanks for reminding me to go there again (I forget about it).

I liked your Sqidward imitation.

[DHG]

Oh, I just remembered... This reminds me of this place we went to in Pensicola, Fl. It was called "Cock of the Walk" and the theme was a riverboat/southern/bayou type theme...

They serve cornbread from an iron skillet, but the servers ask you when they deliver it:

"Would you like me to toss your bread?"

"Toss" our bread? Uh, sure?

So they literally hang onto the iron skillet handle and FLING the skillet upwards. The bread flies up. Way up. This place has high ceilings. They try to catch it in the skillet on the way down, but.... they usually don't. We saw a lot of bread get tossed that evening but most of it ended up exploding on the edge of the skillet as the server tried to catch it. Some of the servers didn't even get that close to a catch. It was hilarious. It was marketing gone very, very wrong. We were amazed that someone didn't realize what a bad idea this was. Flinging hot cornbread in the air... And you'd think that after the first few times, you'd realize that your staff sucks at tossing bread and would STOP MAKING THEM DO IT. Hmmm.