How My Candy Dream Concept Dinner Was Spoilt

Him (upon sitting down after round 1): Shit! Shit! Shit! Stupid KDU, stupid restaurant, stupid lecturer, stupid food.

Me: Excuse me, I’m sorry. I’m having my food; please don’t use the “S” word.

Him: You don’t like you can leave.

Me: Are you going to pay for my food? If this place is so bad, why don’t you leave?

Him: Are you going to pay my performance fees? Look, I don’t want to have this conversation, I’m in bad mood.

Me: At your current mood you are doing disservice to your clients.

Him: Who are my clients? I’m here because my friend the bartender asks me to. I’m in bad mood because the restaurant manager scolded me for bringing 2 helpers. (I don’t fault him here. As a non-SHTCA person, he wouldn’t have known that food portions are limited and budget tightly controlled. Maybe he expect food to fall from the sky or appear by magic)

Me: OK then, let’s change the topic.

[END OF STORY]

Comments: My memory is not that good to recall the conversation verbatim but the 3 shits and stupid this, stupid that is definitely there. He’s supposed to sing 3 rounds but left after eating his complimentary food at end of round 1. He throw tantrum because the restaurant manager scolded him. What if later in life a judge scolds him? How many times can he afford to be cited for contempt of court? I think he’s throwing tantrums because he’s the type of prima donna that likes lots of attention but no one pay him any notice. For a lawyer wannabe, his arguments that night seems to be weak and lame. Don’t you think so?

Why Chinese Like Their Food Piping Hot?

My international friends once ask me this. After some (2 long years) thought, finally I have come out with my own theory.

1) Life is hard in ancient China; the peasants work from sun-up till sun-down. They have no time to wait for their food to cool down.

2) Without knowing the concept of germs, they know from experience food at room temperature especially food kept overnight cause diseases. Rather than take chances they take their food piping hot. In Ancient China methods of hot holding and cold holding not invented yet.

3) Here are some facts:

a) Fragrance or odor is actually molecules breaking off surface of main object and picked up by our nose

b) Food taste better when you like the fragrance, try tasting food when you have a cold. It will feel like eating cardboard.

c) The more energy a molecule has the easier it is to break off the surface of main object

d) Heat energy can be converted into kinetic (movement) energy

Conclusion: Hot food smells better, creating appetite and because it smells better it should also taste better. Cold food rarely gives off much smell, unless you take cheese into account. So Chinese take their food piping hot because it is at maximum taste.

Here are 3 wacky reasons to my friend’s question. If anybody got anymore wacky reasons, please comment.