Returning to Mei Foo's plaza best-kept secret for lunch today, I tried the pizza with scallops and salami, which comes with a potato and Romaine lettuce salad. Best pizza I've had in Hong Kong, which isn't saying much, but is still an accolade of sorts. They've also taken on board a previous comment about the temperature of the coffee, as it was hot this time. 58 dollars for main and drink.
Anyone else get pissed off when you say, correctly, "skollops" and they repeat it back as "skallops"?
Anyone else get pissed off when you say, correctly, "skollops" and they repeat it back as "skallops"?
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Correctly according to whom? I used to work in an office in the UK where there were frequent debates about how to pronounce various words. When we looked them up in the dictionary, it invariably advised that both pronunciations were acceptable. "You say potayto, I say potarto" (well, vice versa, actually).
It's skollops - and the next Hong Kong waiter who repeats the order back to me as skallops will discover that there are more uses for the shells than being used as ashtrays.
Do you really say potarto? I thought only Dan Quayle did that.
The best pizza in town is still Spasso but it does mean you have to get used to perhaps Hong Kong's worst service at the same time.
And surely scallops, scollops or however nanny dictates we say it have a myriad of wonderful uses but on top of a pizza is pearls for the pigs, no?
Reminds me of our old Italian teacher, a rather severe spinster from Ravenna, who could never understand it when we used to ask her to repeat che spasso!, which we translated as what a spas.
Thanks for the tip, Nonnie. Spas is one of those prep school words that the nannies have outlawed, along with jewish and homo. Thanks for the trip back down memory lane.
And that's why us working class people will never really fit in. Jewish and Homo? Really? In 2000 and fucking ten?
spasso - fnarr har har.
Someone got into bed the wrong side last night.
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