The Department of Weird Convergences has been underworked lately, so they've decided to take on new duties as the Department of Weird Convergences and Useless Dichotomies. Their first entry under the new charter is this:
There are two kinds of Chinese take-out restaurants: those that attempt to give themselves a poetic-sounding name (maybe Chinese, maybe not), and those that don't. Here in Buffalo, we have the China Sea restaurant, the Great Wall restaurant, the Nine Pearls restaurant, and that Tai Pei restaurant. Those are the "poetic" ones. In the "non-poetic name" column, we have the China One Buffet, several places simply called "Oriental Buffet", a flock of places starkly marked "Chinese Take Out", and this morning I drove past a place called "Taste Good".
The Department would also like to note a peculiar non-convergence: in the town where we used to live, our favorite Chinese take-out place was called "Lake View". Not only was there no lake anywhere in view, there isn't even a lake within ten miles of the town. Of course, who cares, as long as the food is good, right?
The personal blog of author Kelly Sedinger, chronicling the adventures of one overalls-clad wanderer.
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