We have a scary little joint a ways down the road, with a preposterously hopeful name, that opened up last year, promising, of all things, Chinese food and an American breakfast/lunch/dinner menu, very dinerish.
Bringing yet more Chinese choices chez Veer was really kind of silly, given the number of Asian choices hereabouts, many of them very, very good. But what made it sillier still is that their Chinese wasn't even frozen food section Chinese bad. It was like pu-pu platter tastes like poop bad, like they forgot to gut the Schnauzer bad. They got their asses righteously torn up on the review sites, like Yelp, and they finally decided to stop the mutual torture, and ditched the exotic notion of yet more Chinese, getting rid of everything except for a few items on their appetizer list.
So we get a new menu/flyer from them in the mail, trumpeting the changes, and going through the unremarkable list, I come across this:
Paduka?
I haven't the nerve to order it, let alone ask them what it is, should I tempt fate and food poisoning and wander in there in a foolishly self-destructive state of pique with my comfortable digestion and regularity.
Help me out here, please.
I've looked. Apparently, it has nothing to do with homonym Paducah, that Kentucky burg along the mighty Ohio, nor its eponymous pancakes
There are, of course, paddukah, sort of Holy Joe sandals (now you know why they call it sandalwood) from India, typically two knobs and two flat soles of wood, as India is a country where shoes made out of what might be Grandma are frowned upon.
And then I thought that it might be be Indonesian, but it turns out to simply be an acronym for a meal deal at Indonesian 7-11s.
So, tell me, people, just what is "Paduka"? Anyone?
Bringing yet more Chinese choices chez Veer was really kind of silly, given the number of Asian choices hereabouts, many of them very, very good. But what made it sillier still is that their Chinese wasn't even frozen food section Chinese bad. It was like pu-pu platter tastes like poop bad, like they forgot to gut the Schnauzer bad. They got their asses righteously torn up on the review sites, like Yelp, and they finally decided to stop the mutual torture, and ditched the exotic notion of yet more Chinese, getting rid of everything except for a few items on their appetizer list.
So we get a new menu/flyer from them in the mail, trumpeting the changes, and going through the unremarkable list, I come across this:
Paduka?
I haven't the nerve to order it, let alone ask them what it is, should I tempt fate and food poisoning and wander in there in a foolishly self-destructive state of pique with my comfortable digestion and regularity.
Help me out here, please.
I've looked. Apparently, it has nothing to do with homonym Paducah, that Kentucky burg along the mighty Ohio, nor its eponymous pancakes
There are, of course, paddukah, sort of Holy Joe sandals (now you know why they call it sandalwood) from India, typically two knobs and two flat soles of wood, as India is a country where shoes made out of what might be Grandma are frowned upon.
And then I thought that it might be be Indonesian, but it turns out to simply be an acronym for a meal deal at Indonesian 7-11s.
So, tell me, people, just what is "Paduka"? Anyone?
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