The executive board of the Regent's Scholars Society went out last night for a "bonding dinner" at BCD Tofu House in Koreatown. This sounded like an awesome idea, until I walked in and realized I was the ONLY white person in the place. The rest of e-board offered to make me an Asian shield and order for me. I was excited since last time, Korean bbq was AMAZING, but I got a little scared when I saw jars for sale labeled "hidden flavor kimchi". Now, I don't know exactly what was hidden, but I was in NO hurry to find out.
These were our appetizers. I have no idea what anything is. I DO know that those fried fish were looking at me. And they did not look amused. I was advised to order a combo meal, which meant that I would get tofu soup and beef shortribs. Somehow during all of this, I inadvertently ordered the seafood tofu soup....
More stuff staring at me. I was stirring my soup, and things started clinking.... there were clam shells hidden in my soup. I have a strict policy not to eat anything that is looking at me, so the shrimp and I had a staring contest which I eventually lost. The trick is to put a raw egg in the soup while it's still hot, so it cooks in the middle. I now had scrambled eggs amidst unhappy shrimp and shells. I was done.
Next time e-board wants to bond, I'm refusing to go anywhere farther than In N Out.
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Kind of reminds me when our Asian friends took us to a Dim Sum restaurant for breakfast when we were in Canada. That's right, breakfast, and it didn't go over very well with Tyler either. We couldn't read the menu, let alone identify any of the pictured items. They ordered for us and we ate it, whatever it was! No fried whole fish though.
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