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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:05 am
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You are correct: it is dirty and inane. Also, twelve pounds of rice? And you ate half? So, you ate three pounds of rice each?Blindc1rca wrote:Let me know what you think. No holds barred!
My main fears are that it is inane, dirty, and altogether unworthy of 100 seconds of a Yale professor's time.
Here goes:
I met up with Euceda on the stinky river bridge. She had been raving since I met her about the glory of Chinese food in Honduras. I was skeptical. We went to an extravagantly decorated restaurant and I started to quiver. I had 131 Lempiras (roughly $6.90) in my pocket, and this place seemed far too fancy. I'm talking a fountain with glowing coy frolicking in its artificial bubblery, a glass façade with wide plexiglas doors, and even cloth on the tables. "Say what?" I said.
They said "¿Mande?"
I'm used to chickens and dogs duking it out on my dirt floor while ants and flies duke it out my terracotta plate. This place was too much, but regarding the price it was just enough. 95Lps purchased a dish with no less than twelve generously weighed pounds of fried rice with shrimp, beef, chicken and veggies. Euceda and I ate as much as we could, but still half remained. Luckily there were some glue-sniffers loitering out front, unperturbed by the heavy downpour (I don't know why I saw this as odd), who received the remainder of the meal with a surprisingly coherent "suuuper buena onnnnnnda." After eating I couldn't poop for three days, and even then it took two large green mangoes and a bottle of Phillips Milk of Magnesia to force an exodus. It also caused me to experience my first non-alcohol related hang-over (and my second).
I am a Yale hopeful as well.