Fortune cookie, the best description I can give, is a hollow bland ‘gujiya’ without any filling. The waiter serves it along with the bill in a Chinese restaurant. I find its shape close to bow ties.
It contains, on a piece of paper, one line fortune more like a maxim. My fortune cookie foretells – You will soon bring joy to someone.
We were in for the dinner, which happened to be a buffet. For dessert there was an array of colorful fresh fruit bowls, water-melon, cantaloupes, papaya, grapes, strawberry and mango. Maybe this is the secret of flawless glowing skin and shiny black, straight hair of Chinese people. So my three course meal was over and done with fruits only.
Two things I like about restaurants here, in general -
1. Upon entering any restaurant, the waiter or the manager or the owner of the restaurant greets and asks for the number of guests and accordingly ushers the guests to the table.
2. Most of the restaurants have lunch buffet. Buffet is a safe deal, no surprises and misadventure; there are several starters and desserts to savor and an assortment of main course meal. Accompanying drink needs to be ordered separately. You can have a sumptuous meal to your heart content in one flat rate.
