so our mutual jewish friend daniel (yes, he’s actually from israel. and a jew. what’s the chances of that?) wanted to have a little shindig because he figured he wanted to make us some whiskey sour (reportedly his favorite drink) so we decided we were going to have a little get together over at felix’s place. being the “responsible” adults we are, we asked if they needed anything or any help with the whole process and felix told us to bring some ice and maybe a bottle of whiskey.
so, fred and i set out to wu in search of ice. in china. ice is apparently a foreign concept to these people seeing as how no supermarket in the 600m radius of the “student town” sold ice. and then we came up with the brilliant idea of ordering “drinks” at kfc without the actual “drink”.
(the following conversation has been translated to english for your convenience.)
fred: hi, erm, we actually need to buy some ice…
kfc guy: buy ice? (asks manager) oh i don’t think we can sell ice by itself… see? it’s not on the menu…
fred: ok, then can we buy drinks and you just fill the drinks with ice instead of the drink?
kfc guy: you mean fill the cup with like a little bit of coke and then fill it up with ice?
fred: no… just ice
kfc guy: hokay.
(goes to the back grabs four large cups and starts filling them up with ice)
scott: you can probably fill them up a little more to the brim…
(kfc guy goes back to fill it up some more)
kfc guy: there you go: four large cups of ICE. that will be 24 yuan.
(fred hands over money)
kfc guy: will you be eating in or taking out?
fred + scott: ……..
and then we walked out of the store laughing…