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October 12, 2009

The Zen Master's daughter asks a question

I just picked up the phone and without saying hello first, Gailor asked, "If you feel like eating vegetarian in a Korean restaurant and order the bean paste soup with tofu and vegetables, how many squid-like things with suction cups would you expect to find in your soup?"
Posted by Elizabeth Large at 11:13 AM | | Comments (6)
        

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They do magical things with tofu these days, Gailor...

Lots! I love squid!

More seriously, I never trust menu descriptions. Especially if they involve translations. Best to ask.

And I'll take your squid.

Enough to flavor the tofu.

It's a trick question, no one feels like eating vegetarian when they have the option to eat meat.

One of our sons just returned from Spain. He tried to order roast duck from a menu but somehow ended up with a huge serving of fois gras (he wasn't complaining ...) Lost in translation, but not a bad outcome (if you eat fois gras, that is).

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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.

He takes restaurants seriously but not himself, and his favorite restaurant is the one you love, too.
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