OPPO HAS SPOKEN

"Stef Schrader" (stefschrader) 12/06/2013 at 14:54 • Filed to: Lunchlopnik, spring rolls, take-out

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I shall now devour spring rolls. They're no unlimited pile-o-rolls from Clay Pot, but they'll do.

ddavidn > Stef Schrader 12/06/2013 at 14:56

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That looks amazing. I better stay off Oppo while people post food... I'm hungry...

RacecaR > Stef Schrader 12/06/2013 at 14:56

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Looks so delicious!

Group B-raaaaaaaaaap! > Stef Schrader 12/06/2013 at 14:58

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I know I'm in the minority here, but...

UGH. SHRIMP. WHY?!

Perhaps my ShrimpRage can be best summed up as so:

Anon > Stef Schrader 12/06/2013 at 15:04

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HUZAHH!

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Stef Schrader 12/06/2013 at 15:11

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CLAY POT IS MY JESUS

HoonQueen > Stef Schrader 12/06/2013 at 16:19

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Good gawd those look enormous. I need a scale! The little lidded-cup thing comes in varying sizes so it's not helping.

Flat Six > Stef Schrader 12/06/2013 at 16:20

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Yummy, especially with Vietnamese coffee (cafe sua da)!

Clay pit? Are you in Austin?

Stef Schrader > Group B-raaaaaaaaaap! 12/06/2013 at 16:54

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Oh, no. I'd prefer pretty much any kind of seafood to shrimp. Shrimp is pretty overdone, but these were the only spring rolls there that weren't the meh fried kind.

Don't get me started on how stupid "Red Lobster" needs to rename itself "Pink Shrimp," either. Dang shrimp. (The only reason to go there is the biscuits, anyway.)

Stef Schrader > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 12/06/2013 at 16:56

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"Our Quang, who art in kitchen, hallowed be thy spring rolls."

Stef Schrader > Flat Six 12/06/2013 at 16:58

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Heh, Clay Pot is in Waco, but yep—I'm in Austin.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Stef Schrader 12/06/2013 at 17:10

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My story:

I was a regular there for a while freshman year of college. Got the hookup, got the delicious tea brought to me the moment I walked in along with 4 free spring rolls. Then I didn't go for a while because I got cheap, and I had feared I had lost my hookup.

But, in my absence, a distinctively large friend of mine kept going with a white, light haired friend that looked pretty similar to me. Then, I started going again, this time with my large friend, and our other buddy stopped coming. Quang didn't remember me from previously and thought that I was the same light haired white kid that came in with the fat mexican dude.

So my hookup was restored without me having to build back up to it. Naturally, when he called me the other kid's name, I didn't correct him, for fear of having to build the hookup back up.

I then ran with that name for the next 4 years. To this day, he still calls me by that guy's name. We've even had conversation about 'my' family and background that apparently the other guy had with him, so I've ad-libbed the answers.

All to keep my spring roll hookup. For 5+ years now. Even when I go back now.

Typing this all out makes me feel like a bad person.

But.

I stand behind my decisions.

Stef Schrader > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 12/06/2013 at 17:13

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Hahahahahahaha.

I still stop in there if I'm hungry going through Waco. I think my usual corner table is gone, but there are more tables on the floor now, so that's cool.

Group B-raaaaaaaaaap! > Stef Schrader 12/06/2013 at 17:57

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Agreed. If you are a seafood restaurant, and your most cherished item is cheesy biscuits, you need to re-evaluate your market strategy.

For me, the anti-shrimp stance comes from a general disdain for anything with that specific texture. This includes calamari and cheap canned mushrooms. Shrimp puffs, on the other hand, are actually pretty fantastic.