{"id":162,"date":"2004-07-06T21:20:21","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/06\/beef-bowl-lingo\/"},"modified":"2004-07-06T21:20:21","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T04:20:21","slug":"beef-bowl-lingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/06\/beef-bowl-lingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Beef Bowl Lingo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next time you find yourself in line at a Beef Bowl (aka Yoshinoya<\/A>), please make sure you’ve read and understand this terminology first:<\/p>\n

Combo: A rice meal with shredded beef, chicken and vegetables
\nValue Meal: Any number of options that include a main serving with a drink and side option (like strawberry shortcake or flan)
\nIdiot: The guy working behind the counter<\/p>\n

Anne’s out of town again, so I’m fending for myself and as you know, I can’t cook<\/A>. So after doing a quick cache<\/A>, I tried to think of where I should grab some food on the way home. I got a hankerin’ for some beef bowl, so I headed down to the one not too far away in Cupertino.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s because I was the only white guy in there, but they had changed the menu and I couldn’t make sense of it. After staring up at it for a while, I asked for “a large beef bowl; a combo”, looking at the picture of a large beef bowl with a drink and side. He took my order and asked for $9.02. I thought that seemed a little high for taxes, but I went with it. <\/p>\n

He took the next order while I waited and then he said my order was ready. I looked inside and saw two large boxes, no drink, no strawberry shortcake. I explained to him that it was not what I wanted, I wanted just the “large beef bowl combo”. He asked for my receipt, my change back from my $20 and then gave me back another $4. $4? The meal was $6 without tax. I thought I’d be a good boy and told him that he had given me too much money back.<\/p>\n

At this point he explained to me that I had ordered the combo which was the rice with beef, chicken and vegetables. Of course I didn’t want the combo, I wanted the beef “meal” with the other stuff. #5 on the board. “Oh, you want a number #5” Maybe this is why asian restaurants number all their items. Even when they’re in English, they’re impossible to understand.<\/p>\n

So now he asked for all the change he had given me and we started over. I paid my $6.99, he gave me the large beef bowl, an orange soda and my strawberry shortcake. He gave me my receipt and I checked it this time.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should just stick to Wendy’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next time you find yourself in line at a Beef Bowl (aka Yoshinoya), please make sure you’ve read and understand this terminology first: Combo: A rice meal with shredded beef, chicken and vegetables Value Meal: Any number of options that include a main serving with a drink and side option (like strawberry shortcake or …<\/p>\n

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