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November 13, 2006

Bin Laden found in salad

Here are some highlights from the menu at our hotel in Battambang, Cambodia:

This one was strangely compelling, because in the New Testament both Dove and Fire are used as symbols of God’s Spirit. Just never at the same time.

The mind boggles. As it happens, marijuana is legal in Cambodia, as evidenced by the rows of ‘Happy Herb Pizza’ outlets along Phnom Penh high street. Then again, the Chinese drug on this steamed black chicken might be nothing more exciting than lemon grass.

If one were ever to cook appendix, I think frying would be the optimal method, don’t you? Not sure whether one appendix would be enough though. How many appendices would it take, do you think, to keep your hunger at bay? And how much Chinese mustard would you need in order to mask the taste?

Then we saw it: the chef’s piece de résistance:

Me: Excuse me, what is in the ‘Salad Binladen’?
Waiter: I do not know.
Me: Could you find out for me, please?

Waiter goes off and whispers with his colleagues in a corner. Then he comes back.

Waiter (hesitantly): Eggs

Silence.

Me: So why do you call it a Salad Binladen?

Silence.

Waiter: I do not know.

Posted by sahelsteve at November 13, 2006 09:23 AM