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| - Have you ever eaten somewhere that the experience was just so bad, that you had to try it again to make sure it wasn't just you? Then when you went back, it was exponentially worse? Then about a year later, you decided 'What the heck, let's give them one more shot!' only to have an experience that was even worse? This makes you an idiot. And you have company, my friend.
I should have known the first time I went to Best China, when I asked if I could have the pork-fried rice without onions, I was told to just pick them out. At first, I thought that the very, very quiet man was just joking. He was not. Experience went downhill from there.
The next time, the entire order was wrong and had onions in everything when I asked for no onions. We just smiled and laughed about it afterwards.
Tonight... I went in before the rest of the family and tried to order drinks and the conversation went like this:
Me: "Do you have Sierra Mist?"
Quiet man: "No."
Me: "What do you have?"
Quiet man: "Soda"
Me: "What kind of soda?"
Quiet man: "Sprite."
Me (grinning) "...ooookay, I will have one of those. Do you have juice?
Quiet man: "No."
Me (grinning again): "I will just have 3 waters then for the family and one Sprite."
Quiet man turns and leaves. Brings back Sprite only. We see later that they carry pink lemonade.
Pork skewers arrive 10 minutes before anything else arrives at the table looking like they were put on the fire 2 months ago- and never left. They were charred beyond any recognition. The food that did finally arrive was, let's just say "not good".
California has the "3 Strike" rule. Baseball has the "3 Strike" rule. I should get benched from dining out for making the completely idiotic choice to give them the third opportunity.
Best China... Maybe they put out their Best China, but with the dishes that are served on them, they might want to just consider paper plates.
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