This is about last week. So on Thursday I think the boys ordered in from Annapurna which is a Nepali restaurant close to me and I'd just had my dinner but then I smoked and got the munchies, so I ended up eating not insignificant amount of rice, while saying I wouldn't eat, it was bad and oh no I was so very full. And it was pretty good.
But here's the deal, I eat Nepali food or Nepali-ish food every day. It's not a big deal to order in from Nepali restaurant. It's not novel or something I miss. And on weekly basis somebody invites me over for even more traditional Nepali dinner.
Which is why, I justify, I did not care for the Nepali restaurant we found in the Oregon West Coast in route 101. Apparently it was the only Nepali restaurant for hundreds of miles, so very little competition, and people came over for Indian as well as Nepali food. And they could charge quite heftily because South Asian food was not as common as say, Chinese or Mexican food in there. SO the gang got lunch there. And I ate nothing. Except a couple of leaves which they marketed as 'salad'.
And you know what, in the end the gang wasn't a big fan of the food either. Just because it's the sort of food you eat every day and grew up eating doesn't mean you need to eat it literally all the time and need to be supporting it like you're a jersey-wearing supporter for the team. I guess that's what nationalism is. And maybe that's quite revealing of me to say these things. But still, yeah even if I was Arsenal fan, I wouldn't eat food from the town of Arsenal (is that where they're from?) just because I"m into them. I'd eat London food, Manchester too, whatever was good.
What's the big deal anyway?
No comments:
Post a Comment
Tell me what you think. I'll read, promise.