Duh...! A couple of days ago the doorman at the library caught me at the entrance and forbade me to go inside because of an empty cup and a donut I brought along inside my library basket. “Kein Becher und kein Essen,” he said firmly. I was indeed planning to use the cup for drinking later on. So I tempted to see how far my luck could go and started to say, “Oh, but it’s empty…,” but then abruptly change my mind after I saw the cold expression on his face “… heuheu… ok, ok, I’ll throw the cup away.” So I threw it in the bin and came back to him, putting the sweetest smile I could make and said, “I will not eat the donut (honestly!).” He looked at me straight in the eyes and with the chill voice replied, “Das ist mir egal, Sie dürfen es NICHT mitbringen!” Hiks… he’s not the man I should try to argue with.
So that was 2 days ago. Today, the girl sitting in front of me chewed her apple noisily. The fact that she’s better in smuggling the food had made her munching sounded extremely louder, which hurt my ears and almost brought me to tears.
Nah… lets bend the topic a little bit.
Tonight I’ll go to a dinner invitation with my usual dinner mates. These are the closest friends I found from my prior master project. Even after the project has ended, we still meet each other once in a while. We mostly have the not-so-rich-student-hang-out-style, where each of us should bring something and share, so that we would have a lot to eat and drink at the dinner. But some of these friends have their own eating rules, which at first always made me confused thinking of what kind of food I shall bring.
One of them is a vegetarian without fish, one is vegetarian with fish, and one can only eat chicken meat and hates all the other meats. These 3 people including me and one other friend REALLY love hot and spicy food. On the other hand, another two friends cannot eat spicy food at all, but they eat (almost) all kind of food. From all these people, five are into Asian food, one is willing to taste the Asian food, and the other is so-so.
After a while, I decided to always bring vegetarian food to the dinner. Sometimes a bit spicy, sometimes just normal food.
And then some months ago this gorgeous guy starts to join into my network. The first time I invited him to my place, I cooked chicken mushroom. It was a bit of a failure since I dropped too much broth powder and it was super salty. But he said it was OK, so I didn't care anymore.
Days after that I made him confess that he actually doesn't like mushroom nor chicken at all. Hahaha… still wonder how he managed to eat what I served at that time. I granted him "Gentleman of the Month" for his big effort. But he also deserves "the Pickiest Guy I Knew" for his strictly limited choice of food. (^^ popcorn if you read this.. :# lol...)
When I finally wanted to let him meet my dinner mates, the confusion struck back. This guy puts ground meat on his every meal. He claimed that he only likes German food, but thank God he actually loves Asian fried rice too. So even though in conclusion I can make fried rice for everybody, it still is not the best solution. Vegetarian fried rice = less satisfaction for the gorgeous guy. Ground meat fried rice = no satisfaction for the vegetarian and the no-meat-unless-chicken mates.
I'm still digging my brain to find what other Asian food I can cook that would fulfill everybody's appetite.
PS: Best greetings to those who think dinner brings happiness ^^
