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Skriven 2015-03-28 15:30:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: Fu fu 421
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-26-15  07:54 <=-

 NB>> Fu's still waiting on his wine&beer license... but you are welcome
 NB>> whenever... :)  
 ML> Can you bring your own?

Dunno... I'll have to ask... 
 
 ML>> knowing about rice. Sushi rice should be a bit sticky, but
 ML>> it's pretty clear she's not encountered real sticky rice.
 NB>> That's my guess.  Richard noted that nowhere in the article did she
 NB>> say anything about how things tasted, only how they looked...  His
 NB>> favorite phrase for the place is "It tastes like more"...  ;)  
 ML> She's not shall we say a sophisticated reviewer, but is
 ML> the Democrat and Chronicle looking for a sophisticated
 ML> clientele? Sophisticated being a peculiar concept to
 ML> begin with.

Point.  She, along with others, is a free-lancer, or so the byline
states...  I'd just like something more helpful in a review... does that
make me sophisticated...?  (G)

 NB>>> Fu is a nickname, his real name apparently is Loi Luan (unless
 NB>>> he was pulling her leg...) 
 ML>> That's a Vietnamese name!
 NB>> He's not beyond pulling her leg... ;)  My son says he's definitely
 NB>> Chinese...  ;)  
 ML> A lot of Vietnamese are Chinese.

As mentioned before...  Speaking of which, I had occasion to ask Lin how
she spelled her name... she said it was L - Y (or maybe it was I) - N,
so the added H might have been just the licenser's misspelling..  :) 
She was setting up a time for us to meet away from the restaurant, and I
had to put it into my date book... :)
 
 ML>> think. It invented the IgNobel awards, the awardees of
 ML>> which take almost as much glee as the real Nobelists do.
 ML>> There is always a mixture of real and Ig laureates at
 ML>> AIR's events.
 NB>> I suppose any recognition is better than none at all... and, as the
 NB>> purpose is to get one to think, not that bad a deal...  
 ML> I wondered if anybody has managed to win both, but I can't
 ML> find one.
 
That might take a rather sophisticated search program... :)

 NB>> resort to purees instead of the real thing...  Makes one wonder
 NB>> if maybe using a recording of the textural sounds, played in the
 NB>> background, might not enhance the eating experience in, say, a
 NB>> nursing home...  
 ML> That's a possibility for investigation. After all, if music
 ML> can be deemed an influence on eating and digestion, why not
 ML> other types of sounds. Of course, in the nursing home, maybe
 ML> the sounds of crunching would be more distressing than enhancing.

Chances are, they'd be too deaf to hear them anyway...?

 ML>> Carved veggies are not a big deal. In traditional
 ML>> kitchens they are turned out by the barrelful by
 ML>> trainees or (in Chinese places at least) the kids to
 ML>> keep them out from underfoot and give them knife skills.
 ML>> So lots of effort making edible art doesn't actually
 ML>> detract from the business of cooking.
 NB>> Back when Fu was working for others, he'd do the carved veggies when
 NB>> he was bored, or at least so it seemed...  (G)  It seemed to be
 NB>> something that almost just did itself...  ;)

 ML> Keeping his hand in, I suppose.

Quite possible... :)

ttyl         neb

... How can I run amok? I don't even own one.

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