I met up with an old friend from Maryland for dinner last weekend — there was a supposedly good Chinese place in south Bellevue called “Top Gun.” This was “real chinese,” not shady fast food chinese.

When we walked in (after an impossible parking lot mess), I only saw chinese people, which is a good thing. When we tried to order, we realized that the waiter didn’t speak any english whatsoever, which is a bad thing.

The menus had english and chinese, so most of what we wanted we could point to, except for the thing I was most looking forward to — geoduck. (Geoduck is a giant clam that lives in some disgusting habitat, featured on Dirty Jobs) So, attempting to order geoduck, we ended up with a plate of crabs, which we sent back. (They later came back and just said “No,” which we assumed to mean that they had no geoduck.. or something) We also ordered bok choy, and ended up with spinach. And we ordered some tofu thing and ended up with.. well, a tofu thing. There was also some noodle dish which was awesome, I don’t know what it was.

Anyway, good times.

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