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Up, up and away!
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 12:24 pmSo during last night’s games session, where no actual gaming was done, but instead great dollops of conversation instead, we tried out the new Chinee takeaway that has opened in North Finchley.
This new takeaway has immediately moved into second place in the local selection of Chinese establishment, and to number one in the list of those who deliver. (The best, down the bottom of Totteridge Lane, do not deliver, so any business they get from us is dependent upon the weather, how energetic any one of us is feeling at the time – it is down the bottom of a long hill, after all – and how this all balances against the quality of the victuals from the second place establishment who will bring the food to us).
The Ho Luk should have been called the Hard Luk as their shiny new menus sport a misprinted telephone number which they have tidily changed with a blue biro. Not an auspicious start. The food though, seems fine. I had a sweet and sour chicken Hong Kong style, which could have done with being a little crisper, but balanced against a walk down and up the hill or facing the competition from third place, was fine. The spring rolls were quite acceptable, too. I suspect that we shall use these bods again.
In the meantime, going to bed in a sugar rush from the sweet and sour may not have been the wisest thing I have ever done. I managed to dream that I was Superman for a period of the night, which was pretty groovy, but that segued seamlessly as dreams do into me chain smoking a packet of ciggies and feeling guilty about it and baffled as to why I had started smoking again (I haven’t) in equal measure.
Just before I woke up properly, my dreams had me watching Wogan on telly. He had ridiculous 1980s style bouffant big hair and was reading through a play with some unidentified beardie. The lip synching was remarkably bad; reminiscent of The Seven Samurai and all other over-rated Japanese drivel before or since.
The lesson has to be don’t eat sweet and sour unless you have kept away from sugar for several days, I think!
This new takeaway has immediately moved into second place in the local selection of Chinese establishment, and to number one in the list of those who deliver. (The best, down the bottom of Totteridge Lane, do not deliver, so any business they get from us is dependent upon the weather, how energetic any one of us is feeling at the time – it is down the bottom of a long hill, after all – and how this all balances against the quality of the victuals from the second place establishment who will bring the food to us).
The Ho Luk should have been called the Hard Luk as their shiny new menus sport a misprinted telephone number which they have tidily changed with a blue biro. Not an auspicious start. The food though, seems fine. I had a sweet and sour chicken Hong Kong style, which could have done with being a little crisper, but balanced against a walk down and up the hill or facing the competition from third place, was fine. The spring rolls were quite acceptable, too. I suspect that we shall use these bods again.
In the meantime, going to bed in a sugar rush from the sweet and sour may not have been the wisest thing I have ever done. I managed to dream that I was Superman for a period of the night, which was pretty groovy, but that segued seamlessly as dreams do into me chain smoking a packet of ciggies and feeling guilty about it and baffled as to why I had started smoking again (I haven’t) in equal measure.
Just before I woke up properly, my dreams had me watching Wogan on telly. He had ridiculous 1980s style bouffant big hair and was reading through a play with some unidentified beardie. The lip synching was remarkably bad; reminiscent of The Seven Samurai and all other over-rated Japanese drivel before or since.
The lesson has to be don’t eat sweet and sour unless you have kept away from sugar for several days, I think!
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