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Review: Zaos @ Fillmore & California

So Aimey goes to Zaos at lunch with a few coworkers and gets a noodle dish w/ vegetables at this mid-range Pan-Asian style restaurant.AImey had frequented this place on several other occasions and had been quite pleased with the food. Well this time she is grinding away when she noticed a strange herb. No not the kind found in large cone shaped devices made of paper. After trying to identify it, she gave up and continued eating until she found something a bit too similar to our favorite parasitic companion, La Cocaracha. D'oh. Without saying a word she runs to the restroom and procedes to expell the offending meal. Returns to find her co-workers questioning stares. "Did we say something to offend?" Only thing she could get out was,"Please say that is not what I think it is!" Sure enough they concur. Waitress as well. Hmmm, maybe those herbs were not herbs after all, just plain old sauted legs. Stir fry cockroach. Eat it up while its hot. To make matters worse, Aimey started looking like shit. Her co-workers sent her home early about an hour after lunch. When I came home she looked terrible. Purple swelling under her eyes, red blotches on her skin all over her face and neck, plus burning/itchy eyes. Allergy reaction. D'oh. This all happened on Friday, and she is only now back to her normal self. Either she reacted to the cockroach or the pesticide the restaurant's exterminator was using. From what I understand Cockroaches generate quite an allergic response in most people that are sensative to dust mites. I guess the Fecal matter and saliva is quite hostile when airborne, let alone taken internally.

Semi-Monthly Cockroach Extermination Effectiveness: D-
Restaurant herb selection: B- (Points for creativity, Deductions for human incompatibilty)
Ryan's Waterpolo Story: B+ (Points for "Scoreboard" comment)
Kurt Vonegut Quote: B+ (Humor factor a plus!)