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2003-06-24 11:10 p.m.
I must be a real strange one, since the truth is that I have actually never craved both pizza and noodles simultaneously. But, I guess a lot of other people do, because almost every seat at Zazang was full of what I assumed were ravenous pizza–noodle–ivores. Skot and I looked around at the strange foods in front of the other patrons as we waited to be seated. Most of them were eating large, wide bowls of noodles with an almost black gravy—za zang myun. The tables were all covered with cheap red tablecloths—the kind you use on picnic tables at the park. The waitress brought us water in larger versions of the cups they used to give us in the junior high school cafeteria in the 1980s. Zazang isn't the most classy place in town. But, I'm not all that classy either, so why complain? We were faced with some tough decisions: Noodles? Pizza? Noodles and pizza? The house specialty kim chee pizza? In the end we decided to go for healthy. We ordered a plate of deep fried pork dumplings and one of the house specials, a mountain of deep fried chicken pieces served with spicy vegetable sauce. I asked for a Diet Coke—I mean, duh, I've gotta watch out for my girlish figure! The food came, and It looked incredible—a medley of light and dark browns. Ray always says that brown is the color of flavor, and by the looks of things we were in for a treat. Each crispy dumpling and each nugget of chicken looked like it was shouting, "Ahoy! This food is saturated with savory, brown goodness! Many innocent passersby may be wounded in the imminent taste explosion!" Skot and I found ourselves very confused, though, by the disparity between how it looked and how it tasted. In spite of the tasty brown appearance, the food was only just good, or perhaps slightly above good—but not by much.
We paid the bill and waddled to the restrooms. There was something I wanted to get a picture of: the peephole. Last time I was here I heard some teenage girls in the restroom shrieking about how there was a peephole. I wanted to lay eyes on this peephole and take a few pics of it before it got too famous to approach anymore.
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