Cheated by our Chinese Spot

This weekend was a sad and infuriating one for these two Chinese food loving kids.

Like most New Jerseyans, we order Chinese food about once every two weeks, sometimes more depending on how the weather is. It's sort of our ritual. We get wine, we get out our special Chinese food bowls and ALWAYS eat with chop sticks. Me and my wife are serious about our Chinese food so much that after we got married we took a trip up to the first major Chinese restaraunt in New York City.

No, not P.F Changs which by the way, created General Tso's Chicken, the way that Americans know it anyhow. We have traveled far and wide for any place on anyones radar that seems worth it. I tell you this so you can get a sense of the disappointment that we faced this past weekend.

We noticed lately that the same food that we have been ordering for about six years has begun to cost more. The prices have not changed so why has our total?

My wife wanted to get to the bottom of it and in doing so we found out that they have been charging us a delivery fee. This hit us like a ton of bricks because the little boy that takes the orders, yes that's right he is around ten years old, said it's because of how far we live.

WE LIVE DOWN THE STREET!!

He went on to tell my wife that they have always charged a delivery fee which is so wrong. We have proclaimed this Chinese spot as the best in the area six years ago when we first moved into town and not in six years, until now of course, have we seen this fee.

It truly upsets me that we will have to slap a boycott on them for a while for doing this. I myself understand that times can get a little bit tough in the food business and I also know that you never cheat your regulars. They are the ones to pick you up when you're down.

Needless to say we are going to have to check out the other Chinese spots this week because we look forward to our Friday nights with a bowl of noodles, some dumplings and wine all for the great unwind.