Tacos for the uninitiated!

Hello my blogspot readers (or lack there of). This post, in addition to being my 134th piece of trash to lend on the internet via blogspot, is also the DAWN OF A NEW ERA (of trash). This post has also been posted on etremanque.tumblr.com, a completely NEW BLOG to take over some of my trashiness. Its a joint blog between my sister and I for when I'm overseas and we lack each other's randomness to keep us alive hurhurhur. So, my non-existent readers, I suggest you start reading that one too. I'll continue to fill this blog with my personal trash but that one will be getting a fair share of it too (I mean, with my sister's help, of course ^^).

Anyway I’ve been in Chicago for quite a few days now and its pure awesome. Yesterday, the international students went down to Michigan Avenue, Navy Pier and all that cool jazz. But, as I always say, outings are more about the people than about the place so yesterday’s highlight must be eating Tacos at Chipotle.

Let me begin by introducing the people at the table. There was Jason (aka Zhansheng), Tyler (aka Tianyu), Emma (aka Kejia) and Ruth (aka The Awesome). Apart from me trying very hard to calling them by their oh-so-cool english names, much hilarity ensued in the taco-eating department.

Calamity 1: Without much experience in the taco-eating business, we all took advice from Jason about what to order. Emma was very enthused by the idea of getting a bowl. A “bowl”, so it turns out, refers to a bowl of rice and not its ceramic container. Meanwhile, it was possible to order rice as a topping on the bowl of rice. I figure Emma was as confused as I was and eventually settled for a Taco. Which Jason assured us was the “easiest to eat”. This brings us to…

Calamity 2: THEY AREN’T EASY TO EAT. I had one with cheese, sourcream and guacamole which SHOULD hold together

…but my hands were covered in goo afterwards anyway. Emma said that she’d rather have sat next to me so that she would not need to watch the “unglam”-ness from opposite the table.

Calamity 3: Tyler. Tyler is an ultimate fail. He ordered a VEGGIE taco which is made up of cooked bell peppers and spices from what I could tell. So that stuff hardly had the promise of sticking together. In addition, he put rice and beans in it so you can guess how it held together. Long story short, as the corn-y (TEEHEE) material fell apart, it went from being a hard shell taco to a soft shell taco to a burrito to an off-shape salad with sad limpy excuses for cornbread. But hey, he paid for 1 meal and managed to try all the options at chipotle right?