Mark Butler's weekly blog

Mark Butler is a stand-up comedian and writer from the UK now living in Melbourne, Australia. He performs stand-up comedy around Australia. And he likes dinosaurs.

Monday, November 13, 2006

Language of Love

Restaurants use far too much fancy language nowadays. Succulent pieces of marinated steak in a deliciously tangy bouillon. Chinese restaurants don’t play that game; they go out of their way to make their dishes sound unappealing - Beef testicles in spicy water. How can you order that with a straight face? Chicken insides on dry noodles? Hardly the stuff to whet an appetite.
And Chinese restaurateurs don’t do themselves any favours with the photographs they display in their shop windows. All the food they photograph looks like its been surprised. You can actually see the spring rolls putting their hands up, shielding their faces from the camera.

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