Ethiopian! ...What?
I was totally amazed at this. What, do they sit you down and just make you starve to for a couple of hours? ...post a disclaimer on the door - "For full effect, please do not eat or drink 72 hours prior to entering restaurant..."
...cargo jets fly overhead dropping grains of rice on your table...
Who the hell goes to an Ethiopian restaurant? I've never heard of anyone leaving their house starving for food and thinking, "Wow! I could really go for some good home-cooked Ethiopian food... Mmmm, that sounds delicious!"
Isn't Ethiopia a poor, starving country? So what business do they have opening up a restaurant?
I tell you what, you want to start feeding people Ethiopian food, how about starting with the Ethiopians! They're the hungry ones... how about giving them a little something first!
Mexican restuarants in New York are a big mystery to mee too. Where do you get decent, authentic, hole-in-the-wall Mexican food in New York? California it's easy, Mexicans are all over the place. But New York? There are no Mexicans here!
I think New Yorkers are aware that they will never be able to have good, authentic Mexican food. They know they'll never find a Mexican to open up a restaurant in New York, so you know what they do? They just get the Chinese to do it...
Now, I'm not talking about these hoity-toity "upscale" Mexican restaurants - they have good food and everything, but the best Mexican food comes from a small, dirty ol' shack that's owned and operated by about 20 illegal immigrant Mexicans... that's where you get the good stuff.
But you can't find that in New York. You go to any little hole-in-the-wall burrito joint in this city and you will invariably find that it is owned and operated by Chinese people. It's amazing! They take their Chinese restaurant, add the word "Fresco" in the name somewhere, and BOOM!- Mexian restaurant.
And the people running the place, they don't even speak English, let alone Spanish! So you gotta butcher the Spanish language and order everything with that goofy, Yankee-American accent for them to understand you.
So what do the Chinese do about it? They take their knowledge and expertise from the Chinese restaurant and incorporate it into the Mexican restaurant.
Next thing you know, there are numbered pictures of each dish plastered all over the walls, and you just order by number. Only now you get red beans with your meal instead of pork fried rice.
