Monday, July 26, 2010

Crab Quest

I love seafood and especially hungry for crab on a weekend when I was with some friends, Anna, Keven, and Gene. Anna and I share the same interest in Crab, but Gene is not quite a fan of it. Since we are in a democratic country, we started out quest for crab. It was a Saturday night around 10pm and we are driving.

Anna suggested a Chinese Seafood and wanted me to call them about their hours and specials. I dialed the number, the phone ringed, and a guy answered.
"Hello."
"What time do you close tonight?"
There's a short pause and the guy asked very politely:
"Who's asking?"
I realized I probably had the wrong number.
"Is this a restaurant?"
"No, it is a resident not a business number."
Wops, I apologized and hanged up, while my friends were laughing so hard in the front seats. Anna gave me the number again and said
"Why are you speaking English to them?"
Right, I was also glad that I didn't ask them what their crab special is. That would be a very wired phone call. So I called the right number and specifically asked if it is a Seafood restaurant in Chinese. The answer is positive. I found out they close at 1am. Then I was trying to ask what their crab special is. But I didn't have to much chance to speak Chinese in a daily bases, so I forgot what's special in Chinese and got stuck in the conversation. The equivalent conversation in English is like:
"What do you have for crab ... mmmm?"
Before I can finish my sentence, the guy answered:
"We run out of crab tonight. Only have lobster and shrimp."
That's too bad. So we tuned our radio to a Chinese station and listened for restaurant ads. Yes! There is one, the south sea restaurant. They have crab special for $2.99. However, on one caught their phone number or address. Anna suggested me to call my Chinese friends for directions. And I did.

I found out where this restaurant is and chat with my friend a little bit. Afterwards, Anna asked me if the restaurant is good. I said I didn't ask and my friend didn't say anything bad about this place. I concluded that it must be all right and should just go there.

We went to this restaurant, but it was very late around 12:20am. I guess the waiter was not too happy to see us coming in so late. We wanted to order crab, but they also ran out of it. So we had to order lobster instead. It's also 2.99, but we had to order at least $29.99 other dishes. We were not so happy about it, the ad didn't say that. At the end, we didn't get our crab tonight.

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