Small Stone for Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012

[mrs_prufrock]

I spent half my salary to not work there anymore. This is my receipt: It's Sunday and I want Chinese, but my companion is asleep, so I doze in a chair by the window, letting the sunshine cause orange light to bloom behind my eyelids, parsing the difference among craving szechuan, imagining how szechuan tastes and tasting szechuan. The difference in

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[81853k]

'parsing the difference among craving szechuan, imagining how szechuan tastes and tasting szechuan' -- you are one up me -- I don't know how szechuan tastes. Or maybe I do and don't realize it. Chinese?

This writing is succinct as a slip from a fortune cookie.

[mrs_prufrock]

It's basically like ketchup and barbecue sauce combined. It's good on a cold night.

[mrs_prufrock]

Yeah, it's Chinese. A typical dish for me would be mixed vegetables (broccoli, onions, carrots, mushrooms, "baby corn") and bean curd (basically tofu only crunchy/breaded) and white rice, with szechuan.

[mrs_prufrock]

And this place near my house has it for $3.25 for a really big dinner-sized portion. Just discovered this, after living in this neighborhood for three years. Their garlic sauce is better than their szechuan, though. I had mixed vegetables and rice with garlic sauce for $3.25 tonight. Bliss. :)