"Mingming, let me ask you straight up: is this Chinese food authentic or not?"
Deep in an alleyway in Chinatown, inside a modest-sized Chinese restaurant, Lao Tang shoveled a mouthful of fragrant white rice into his mouth while asking Lu Mingfei in a muffled voice, looking for all the world like a starving ghost who hadn't eaten in days.
"Authentic... I've never seen any Chinese food more authentic than this." Looking at the table full of dishes before him, Lu Mingfei held his chopsticks suspended in mid-air, as if momentarily at a loss for where to begin.
Chapter 91