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Fancy seeing you here

yesterday I had to run to the rivers to help my dad clean up his car. my morm is having a rodent problem at her house. one rodent in particular and she's too stubborn to call up an exterminator. it's like a bad cartoon. she puts out the bait, the rodent gets it and gets away with it. leaving it's calling card behind.

this time the calling card was eaten up car wires and chewed up car interior. score: rodent 1 - morm 0.

at anyrate. she had an appointment to drive some clients around today, so she asked to borrow my dad's car. she called saying he didn't answer his phone and could i go over and see if he's there and help him clean the car. i had to go over there anywhere to pick up parts to our lawnmower (dad borrowed it when his broke and forgot to return a piece), so i figured why not.

afterwards i was going to see if my dad wanted to go to lunch and we'd meet up with randar somewhere, but then a realtor called and i had to run home to help randar get the house ready for show. after that it was starving time and we both demanded lunch.

so we got in the car and headed downtown, figuring we'd sort it out during the 8 minute drive to get there. eventually we settled on ma jong's (the relatively new oh so cleverly titled (i must admit i think it's kindofa cute name) fancy pants "asian diner"). neither of us had been there and randall wanted chinese food. so we found a parking spot and headed for the door.

about a block away from our destination i noticed that jeff was about 100 yards in front of us walking in the same direction. i was going to call out a "yo!" but didn't really feel it was necessary. he looked like he had a destination to get to.

strangely, that destination was our destination too. we watched as he went in to the restaurant. we followed closely behind.

since the place is an order at the counter, take your number and sit down sort of place we ended up catching up with jeff. he said he recommended the orange peel chicken, but i was feeling the spice, so i ordered the "general jong's chicken" and randall had the "orange peel beef". the food was tasty, but slightly dissapointing. for almost $10 each i expected a little bit more. also the general chicken wasn't hot at all. like not even remotely spicy and it had a pepper next to it on the menu. so if that is spicy, what is bland? i did, however like the fact that there was a brown rice option. i should be eating more brown rice.

oh and this place has crazy bathrooms. the sink area is separate from the toilet area. and you think you're looking into an all mirrored area, but woah ho ho. that's not a mirror. that's a replica. you're looking into the men's bathroom. no joke.

and there's also a fancy outside area, which maybe given the nice weather we should have sat at. then we also could have sat next to these awesome dudes (they must be chefs or something, they just looked awesome, i wish this photo showed it) but we sat next to jeff and 1) it was awkward to be like oh we'll sit somewhere else but 2) it was awkard to also sit next to him. i acknowledged this.

Posted by pocketpig at February 13, 2006 11:56 AM

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