To The Point
I received a menu for Hong Kong Bistro in my mailbox. It's one of those places that offer Chinese food and sushi. Isn't that a bit like offering Italian and Mexican?
Anyway, I was taken by their slogan: "Happiness is good." Who can argue with that?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:17 AM
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Koreans love sushi, and almost all the large Korean restaurants in New York have a sushi bar. I've always found that interesting given historical antipathies between the two cultures. It's as though you found a schnitzel stand in a French restaurant. Speaking of strange cross-cultural restaurants, I passed an Ecuadorian restaurant that prominently advertised "Ecuadorian, American and Italian cuisine" on their awning. The three-continent combo is not what I'd call immediately appetizing -- my assumption would be that you do none of them particularly well.
Let me vote in favor of food mongrelization. It can be good or bad but it usually results in something new
Oh, mongrelization can be good, no doubt. One of my favorite local restaurants is an Indian-style Chinese restaurant. Dish names are recognizable from either cuisine, but thoroughly re-interpreted in interesting ways. And the mid-priced Korean sushi places are just as good as the Japanese ones. It's when you try to do three cuisines in the original styles that you usually wind up with nothing good.
In Ann Arbor we had a sushi bar/massage parlor shut down by the police. Never ate there.
"I came for the rubdown and stayed for the food."
In one of those grand dreams only a college guy can have, I dreamed of someday opening a laundromat & tavern- "Suds and Suds" so to speak.
I did this because after I moved off-campus, I had to drive in to the town to the only laundromat and then would hang out in the bars across the street during the spin cycle, often tarrying too long and finding wet duds in a pile (or once the the laundromat closed for the night).
"If only I could drink beer while watching my laundry...." Someone else will have to live that dream, alas.
That's a million-dollar idea, NEGuy, you shouldn't be giving it away so freely. Out here in LA, I do note taco stands alongside car washes, but your concept is better.
What I want to know is did the Ann Arbor police shut the place down for bad food or happy endings? (That could be their slogan--"Happy Endings Are Good.")
Naw- the numbers wouldn't work- would only work in a college town or a place with a large single population that can get tanked on weeknights- and those guys do laundry like maybe twice a month if they're lucky
Already been tried and failed.
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