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What a Mao-thful!
Mao – Temple Bar and Dun Laoghaire. A review by Gelatinous McAnimate, social diarist. 6
million dead Chinese can’t be wrong, and now everybody’s favourite
Chairman of the board has not one, but two trendy eateries in which
to wine and dine the people. I
had the lamb with Ho Chi Mint sauce, but if you are digging for something
a little more down-to-earth, why not try the Mass-Grave Stew? Mao is refusing
to give away the recipe to international investigators, and even the staff
are unsure as to where he gets his ingredients. The traditional peasant stew is made from peasants humanely overworked in a paddy field in Northern China until they drop dead of exhaustion. “It’s the secret to its revolutionary edge,” explains Mao. L’Addition
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The
meal got off to a good start with a Revolutionary salad, which came with
a veritable Red Army Faction of dips and sauces, beautifully presented
on a bed of cold, damp tiles. The eggs for the mayonnaise are stirred
and ruthlessly beaten every fifteen minutes, and I, for one, was forced
to confess to the efficacy of this treatment. The boiled crab-meat soup
alone would have made me sign anything. And I did: I am now, by my own
admission, an enemy of the Chinese People and scheduled to be executed
tomorrow. And after eating in Mao, the last wish of this condemned man
is that he not obstruct the gustatory march of Mao to glory! Now where’s
that executioner?
