When trying to impress your friends, there are a few tricks you may employ. For one, you can complain about how difficult it is to reach your architect lately, ever since she started working on the Prince's Monaco project. For another, you could take them to Relax, the new Chinese restaurant off the corner of Nicollet and 25th Street, glance briefly at the two lengthy menus you will be presented--one laminated, one loose-leaf--and set them down on the table firmly.
Then--like the commanding captain of global culture that you are!--you will ignore them, and deftly summon the best delicacies the kitchen has to offer. Next, look to the fish tanks! Blue tanks of fresh fish, crabs, eels, and lobsters line one wall near the kitchen. Seek out the liveliest looking fish, like the lumpy-faced rockfish, or a big spotted bass. Ask to have your fish "steamed." In this case, steamed doesn't mean bland, it means that the fish will be cooked in a pressure-steam cooker with a bit of oil and green onions, then will be served on a platter with more green onions and sprigs of fresh cilantro, surrounded by a sweet and light soy and rice-wine sauce. The fish will have the effervescent texture of custard, and will be as light and trembling in the mouth as a cloud.
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