Check Please
Here's a little horror story for you from Kuala Lumpur.
I went out to eat with some of my students last night. We took a taxi from our hotel to the very fashionable Bukit Bintang district, which is near the world's tallest building, the Petronas Towers, and ate dinner at an Indian restaurant called "Bollywood". The food was delicious, with very distinctive and unusual Malay spices.
As we finished the last of our meal, I noticed some movement in the empty booth next to us out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look, and saw a giant grey sewer rat, about 2ft. long from snout to tail, scampering along the seat cushions.
Needless to say, none of us ordered any dessert.
Comments
So, you were upset because that was the entree you picked out (i.e. lobsters in a tank) when you first entered the restaurant, and they obvously didn't serve you that one?
Posted by: Donna | October 11, 2006 8:28 AM
No, I was upset because I thought I was having "Vole Tikka Masala", not rat.
I also thought that the black pellets in the rice were whole spices.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 11, 2006 8:49 AM
not sure I would be "digging" the Malaysian scene
Posted by: fritz | October 11, 2006 9:57 AM
Too bad you didn't have your phone camera out. The rat would have made a great shot for Extortr.
Posted by: jkcohen | October 11, 2006 12:25 PM
WWABD?
Posted by: M.Ace | October 11, 2006 1:52 PM
WWABD=
What Would Al Bundy Do?
What Would an Altar Boy Do?
What Would Ambrose Bierce Do?
What Would Allan Berg Do?
What Would Art Bell Do?
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 11, 2006 4:49 PM
"Ding!"
"Sorry, Mr.BaliHai, I'm afraid I'm going to have to flip all of the cards. Mystery Guest, please tell the panel your identity."
"My name is Anthony Bourdain."
Posted by: M.Ace | October 11, 2006 6:43 PM
Remember the old Firesign Theater skit, "Rat In A Box"?
When you can't stand the pace
In the Big Rodent Race
'Come on in where it's safe
Where the menu is tref...
There's a smell in the air
that reminds you of hair
You've got something to get
and it looks like your pet!
(aren't you hungry ?)
First we take some rat parts
and fry them up real nice..
Then we skin the kitties,
and barbeque the mice!
Bridge:
Guts in a Cup! (Yum!)
Mouse on a Stick! (Wow!)
French-fried Fleas
and Beer-battered Ticks!
Chorus:
Ra-aaat in a box...
(We fry what you won't--)
Ra-aaat in a box...
(We fry what you won't--)
Ra-aaat in a box...
(We fry what you won't...TOUCH
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 11, 2006 8:29 PM
A Bearwhiz Beer'll help wash all that down. "It's in the water!"
Posted by: M.Ace | October 12, 2006 6:50 PM
"That's why it's yellow!"
Posted by: MrBaliHai | October 13, 2006 2:39 AM
maybe that was a capybara on holiday with a tail extension
Posted by: mod*mom | October 13, 2006 10:01 AM