Tao Tao’s
Went to this place Tao Tao’s in Sunnyvale with my mother, Mike, and Frank. The waiter was nice about finding something vegan I could eat. Turned out like ma po dofu (麻婆豆腐) with peas.
Funniest thing was the table next to us. These four people from Cisco (we gather) who were making a ruckus. I think one of them got there early and threw a few back at the bar while waiting for the rest of his people. I couldn’t believe how boisterous they were, especially this one I’ll call Dave. Running joke there. It was a nice quiet restaurant, people using their indoor voices, except for this bunch. At one point, Dave actually puts the person he had been talking to through his cell phone on speaker phone. So now there’s a table of at least half-drunk people shouting into this phone and the guy on the other end yelling back. Amazing.
I was so amazed I felt it necessary to take a photo with Dave, telling him he looked like my highschool English teacher. Yeah, this wasn’t true, but it was pretty good for something I thought up on the spot.
That’s me in the dark shirt and Dave with his head turned letting out a guffaw.
He really got a kick out of it. Even said “oh, this is going on the Internet.” Dave, you didn’t know how right you were.
My thanks for his table-mate for taking the picture and apologies for the low quality, it was taken with my cell-phone in doors in the evening. Beg pardon.
Hope you aren’t too hungover tomorrow, Dave.





