However, I did get my sugar tooth hands on some delicious Japanese candy from Somboun's Asian Market! I currently can not stop gobbling it down either. Not only am I a huge candy fiend, but Japanese candy tastes even better!
Serkan and I went out with Eiji - one last time before his return trip home (Japan). Eiji really wanted to go eat crab legs at Chef Wang's before he left, so I ate at Panera first, and then we all went to Chef Wang's (I'm a vegetarian and Chef Wang's isn't very appealing to me).
Panera is my favorite. Always. But today, I was about to take another bite of my Mediterranean veggie sandwich when I noticed what looked like brown/black, bad lettuce. So, I peeled the top of the sandwich slowly off to investigate. It definitely was brown/black and gross. But it definitely was not lettuce. It was a straight up insect, kids. Wings, legs, body...just hanging out.
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Yeah, so...needless to say, I lost my appetite, got my money back, and was on my way. I felt bad because the manager and one employee felt so bad (they know me, I frequent there regularly...or, at least, used to when I had the monetary resources). I assured them it happens everywhere and it wasn't their fault, and thanked them for the refund and politeness.
Now, onto the adventurous part of the day/evening! Chef Wang's!
Oh. My. God. Watching those two scoundrels - I mean, Serkan and Eiji - enjoy their crab legs was such an experience. I mean, have you ever watched someone eat crab legs? Like, actually just sat back and watched?! It's a fucking escapade, let me tell you!
They're so incredibly excited about it: mouth watering, eyes wide, tools ready! They brought back piles upon piles of these crab legs! Talk about all-you-can-eat. They went up time and time again, plate after plate after bushel after bushel of crab legs!
I kept wincing, into the corner of the booth, afraid of these men with their teeny tiny forks and...nut crackers? - What the fuck? - I was waiting for the crab to explode, tiny pieces of shell flying into my hair, my mouth, my eye! I was mortified; and yet...could not look away.
The sheer victory they seemed to experience when successfully procuring the entirety of the meat from one leg made even me giddy! It was as if their hard work had finally paid off! Like they won the lottery! Like eating the crab legs in bits and pieces wasn't good enough; you're a fucking crab leg-eating failure - head hung low - until you get the whole thing out, completely intact!
They were champions (in a prehistoric kinda way)!
These guys were utterly neanderthal-esque! I half-expected them to rip off their clothes and start bathing themselves in the buttery oil, like their fellow crabs, picking insects out of each others hair and grooming themselves with their tongue.
Okay.
I need to stop.
Being a vegetarian, I guess I'm just not used to having to break my food out of a shell or wrestle it into submission; so maybe I'm just one of the very few who have never experienced this ordeal firsthand. Maybe that is why it amused, yet disgusted, me so.
It was a spectacle; I'll give you that.
Everyone should spectate such an event! Next time you're going out to eat, find some all-you-can-eat crab legs and let the amusement begin! You'll never see your friends in the same light again. Guaranteed.
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