Slang Editorial :: Never Underestimate The Value Of A Holla'

Friday, October 23, 2009
Once A Year

I have been working at this job in various capacities for four and a half years, and one of its many majorly disappointing aspects is the fact that it is located in the heart of No-Food Death To The Living Land, aka Central NYC Midtown. There is so little quality food in this neighborhood that anyone with a tongue for flavor but a small wallet must scour the nookiest nooks to find even semi-solid values (thank god for midtownlunch.com).

As a result of this total shitshow on non-food possibility, I more or less subsist by eating Halal food or mediocre Global Kitchen pizza. Every once in a while though I get a craving for Chinese food and I cave in and go to a take-out place conveniently located directly across the street, Yips. Sadly, every single time it is a terrible mistake.

Don't buy into the semi-positive Midtown Lunch testimony--Yips is absolutely horrible. There is nothing at all good about Yips, other than the fact that it's relatively cheap. Their food, ALL of which is astonishingly greasy, is definitely in a top 5 category of least satisfying Chinese food i've ever eaten.

I have had the misfortune of going to Yips exactly six times, and each time I have finished my meal swearing to myself that I will never EVER go there again, no matter how alluring cheap Chinese food may seem. And yet, every eight or so months enough time has passed since the last time and I'll start talking myself down, slowly... until finally I'm outside and finding myself walking in.

"It's not as bad as I'm remembering it," I say. "You have a tendency to exaggerate," I remind myself (which is true).

But then I go in, order, and eat, and every time.... gah. Terrible. Some people never learn.

Labels: case studies, curiosities, food, quicksnaps

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 10/23/2009 06:00:00 PM 0 comments

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