The rain beat down on my brow as I entered Ching Chong Chows Chinese Pagoda Restaurant, Takeaway and Pool Hall. Ching Chong Chows is a local eatery for the most elite foodies in my area and was established in my favourite culinary anno, 1975. I sat down with Johnny Raymond, I mean Mr. R, and I must profess to having a hard time selecting from the menu. Which to have, one wonders, pork dumplings? Salt and pepper ribs? Chiney Chef Special Sauce Oysters? Whole Peking Duck? Prawn toast? Skewered liver and Bacon Chiney Style? Cod Balls Chiney Chef Surprise? Crispy Seaweed? Sweet and sour lice crabs? Tango Ribs?
For my main I had Sweet and sour pork balls, sweet and sour pork Hong Kong Style, sweet and sour chicken and sweet sour veg all served on a veritable King size bed of rice. A pallid Mr. R had a ham sandwich. There I was gobbling up my meal with relish when it happened. A small rumble in my tummy, no matter thinks I, but then my guts began to quake alarmingly and sweat began to flow from my brow in torrents and stung my eyes. I looked over to the toilet, but the thoroughfare, that would have allowed my passage, was so hopelessly full of diners that I stood little chance on making it. I looked at Mr. R apologetically, grease, sweet and sour sauce, rice and sweat dripping from jowls and mouthed, ‘sorry.’ Then I unleashed a gastric eruption of such ungodly proportions it would have equalled the arrival of Baphomet himself, in volume and stench. To compound this I followed through with 8 pounds of muck and sludge. Some of it solid, some of it not.
Mr. Wu Shu Wank, proprietor of Ching Chong Chows, please accept this as my official apology for clearing your restaurant at such a busy time.
