Nacho're Average Nachos
While in Shanghai, Amanda and I decided to get dinner at at The Bund Brewery. She had been there before and said that the food was a bit pricey but worth it. We sat down and she realized that the menus were not the same as before. The selection was much smaller and the prices much higher. We each ordered an overpriced beer and decided just to split a plate of nachos. Before we ordered, we wisely questioned the waitress about the $10 plate of nachos whose Chinese name translated to Mexican Corn Biscuits. The conversation went a bit like this though it was mostly in Chinese when talking to the waitress:
Me: The nachos have beef on them, right?
Waitress: No, it's pork.
Me: (to Amanda) Pork on nachos? (to Waitress): Can we switch the pork to chicken?
Waitress: No.
Me: Ok. (to Amanda) Do you want pork nachos?
Amanda: No! We can just get them with cheese.
Me:(to waitress) The nachos have what's the word... cheese on them, right?
Waitress: No cheese.
Me: What?! Gross. (to Amanda) No cheese on the nachos. (to waitress) What is on the nachos?
Waitress: (doesn't understand my bad Chinese) What?
Me: The nachos have pork on them and what else? Vegetables?
Waitress: Yes, vegetables.
Me: What vegetables? The picture shows hot peppers and cilantro.
Waitress: Yes.
Me: That's it?!? (to Amanda)Evidently they are pork, hot pepper and cilantro nachos without cheese for $10.
Amanda: No.
Me: (to waitress) We don't want the nachos. We'll just drink beer for now. Thank you!
After finishing our beers, we went to a different part of the city and had an equally pricey but much more authentically prepared dinner of Pad Thai.

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