Food Appreciation, Class #3, Period 3

[baskiceball.livejournal.com]

Asian food was the name of the game today and Marshall was already digging into some lo mein as he waited for everyone to come into the room. He knew it was mean to start eating before everyone else but, dammit, he couldn't help himself. It was so good.

"Okay guys, if you couldn't already tell from the funky smell, we're covering food from the far east today," he said once everybody had come in. "You know how you probably shouldn't eat stuff that smells funny? This is the one exception where it's okay to do so. Bok choy smells nasty but it's delicious."

"Back in the day the only kind of Asian food you could get readily was Chinese. It's delicious, don't get me wrong, but variety is the spice of life. We as a nation were very glad when Thai, Japanese, Cantonese, Vietnamese...all sorts of -ese's started popping up in cities," he said. "Nowadays even small towns have a good Thai restaurant. Which is good because I love Pad Thai. Those people do great things with peanuts."

Marshall pointed at the buffet table, which had fried rice, sushi, all kinds of noodles, sweet and sour pork, egg rolls, tom yam and all sorts of other moddable food from the east Asian countries. And, of course, there were fortune cookies for dessert. "So, here's the food. I swear that whole "cooking up dogs and cats" thing is a rumor. I think. This stuff is safe."

He thought it was safe, anyway. Could be no real way of knowing.

"So dig in! First dibs on the fortune cookies!" Marshall practically yelled. He wanted his pick of fortunes, dammit.

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Listen To The Lecture

[baskiceball.livejournal.com]

Again, the mun Marshall is just making this up as he goes.

Re: Listen To The Lecture

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

You know what? Jen was totally the kind of dork who would take notes on this.

Copious notes.

Color-coded ones. (Funny thing about her and color coding really.)

Re: Listen To The Lecture

[lovemykilt]

Man, Priestly never knew classes could be so sweet.

Re: Listen To The Lecture

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

Ned hadn't had a lot of food from the Far East so he paid close attention to make sure he didn't eat anything bad.

Re: Listen To The Lecture

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

For once, Mac was actually not taking notes on a lecture.

She might save her cookie fortunes and call them notes on the subject, though.

Re: Listen To The Lecture

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Ohmygosh, yum!

That's all Amber was thinking as she sat there and listened to Marshall.

Re: Listen To The Lecture

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

Viki, if pressed, would completely declare this her favourite class ever, and she listened avidly.

Re: Listen To The Lecture

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee was used to at least some of this, and utterly delighted at the chance to use chopsticks again.

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[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

This was one time where Hoshi didn't need to take notes.

Re: Listen To The Lecture

[heromaniac]

Momoko was giving her absolute, devoted and undivided attention. Just not to Mr Eriksen. Her pen and notebook were still in her bag and she was craning her neck to see if she could identify what was on the table besides copious amounts of chinese food.

"Is that... is it really... Ohmygod, it is totally totally takoyaki, right? Right?" She mumbled, bouncing in her seat. "Please let it be takoyaki. Oooh, oden would taste really good with the cold outside... Is there oden? Gaaaaah! We only have an hour, hurry up! Hurry up! Hurry up!"

So sue her, she missed her home food.

Eat food!

[baskiceball.livejournal.com]

And feel free to mod your fortunes.

Re: Eat food!

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

Jen worked her way methodically through a little bit of everything this week, except for the sweet and sour pork. There was no "little" to the "bit" in that helping: just a whole lot of OM NOM NOM.

Only without the LOLcat sound effect.

And oooh, fortune cookies, and --

"You will find double the pleasure in life?" Jen read out loud. "Been there, done that."

Unless it meant simultaneously.

. . .

And that would be Jen in her happy place.

Re: Eat food!

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Firekeeper was just going to avoid anything with too many spices. And completely ignore the chopsticks in favor of a fork.

She also took a fortune cookie, and frowned at it thoughtfully, not sure if there was something she was supposed to do with it besides eat it.

Re: Eat food!

[lovemykilt]

Priestly had piles of food on his plate, mostly spicy Thai stuff with a pyramid of egg rolls.

He had chopsticks. They worked really well if you just kind of skewered stuff with them. Sure, he knew how they really worked, but his way was more fun.

Re: Eat food!

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco was in a very happy place full of food. And fortune cookies. "Face facts with dignity." He paused. "In bed?" His second one just said "Don't panic."

Re: Eat food!

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

Ned took small samplings of each thing so he could figure out what he liked, what he didn't like and what looked too weird to even try.

Re: Eat food!

[imcalledandros.livejournal.com]

Andros mostly stuck to eating fried rice but he did try a bit of everything. And despite the fact that he hadn't yet figured out how to use use chopsticks properly like in the icon, he was still trying to use them without that much success.

Re: Eat food!

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

It had been months since Mac had eaten any oriental food. Probably not since her first date with Ron and... yeah, that seemed like ages ago now.

She loaded up on a little of everything and snagged a fortune cookie, looking at that first. "Flattery will go far tonight?"

Re: Eat food!

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

Molly piled noodle dishes from around the far East onto her plate, figuring there was only so far she could go wrong with pasta. Besides, didn't she remember something about them having invented the noodle?

Re: Eat food!

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber got a little bit of everything (except sushi, ick) so her plate was piled pretty good.

She was having trouble with the chopsticks and finally gave up, and just used her fork.

Talk to the TA

[baskiceball.livejournal.com]

Once she pings in, of course.

Re: Talk to the TA

[thatsamilkshake]

She was here. Methodically grazing her way through a very full plate while making a little fort out of still-wrapped fortune cookies.

Talk To Marshall

[baskiceball.livejournal.com]

He had hoarded about six fortune cookies for himself.

OOC

[baskiceball.livejournal.com]

I want a burrito. Like one from Chipolte, not Taco Bell.

Re: OOC

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn you. I want Chipotle now too.

Or I could just go to the 24-hour Mexican place down the street.