On 7/19/2014 11:07 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 23:31:10 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>> On 7/18/2014 1:23 PM, wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> To me, eating at a restaurant is to enjoy the company of a friend, if
>>> I'm not doing that, I eat at home, can't remember when I last bought
>>> any takeout.
>>>
>>
>> Sometimes you have to. If you are traveling on business, for instance,
>> you can't go home for dinner. Alternative is take=out in your hotel room.
>
> When away from home alone I'd eat at the counter of a diner, or a
> communal table of a cafeteria, not many of those around anymore but
> used to be lots in NYC. But I don't like eating alone at a restaurant
> and rarely have, being the only one all alone at a table you stick out
> like a sore thumb and people actually stare including the servers...
> only exception a real Chinese restaurant, typically so crowded (and
> noisy) no one knows you're alone and people will ask to sit with you,
> with grining, bowing, and nodding because most speak no English...
> during the '50s-'60s best Chinese food in the US was NYC's
> Chinatown... still the best but not nearly as good as it was.
> Toronto's Chinatown has great food too. LA's Chinatown wasn't bad,
> Frisco is the worst by far... I don't think any food in Frisco is
> good, much too commercialized, seafood at the Wharf is way overpriced
> dreck.
Houston had a huge Chinatown, near Minute Maid Park, but it slowly
changed over 3 decades (and it moved), we have a lot of Vietnamese and
Thai, now. In one area, all of the street signs are in Vietnamese.
Becca