MAY 24, 17 .. A LITTLE OF THIS .. A LITTLE OF THAT .. FROM PUEBLO, COLORADO

Too funny!!

I was planning on leaving Pueblo tomorrow, Thursday the 25th.

I was planning to run up Interstate 25 a few miles (45.4 miles to be exact) to Colorado Springs and spend a few days there. I want to see the Chapel at the Air Force Academy. I want to drive up the road to Pikes Peak and experience 14,115 feet above mean sea level.

So the time had come to check out motels in Colorado Springs.

I have firmly settled on Priceline.com as my one, and my only, travel website.

Onto Priceline.com I went to check out the rates in Colorado Springs.

        WHOA !!

The rates in Colorado Springs this upcoming weekend were phenomenally high and absolutely, unreasonably out of sight, at least for yours truly!

As one for instance, Motel 6 rates were above $80 per night this weekend. Many, if not most, of the usually reasonable properties were sold out.

So I telephoned Motel 6 in Colorado Springs and asked them ..

“What’s up this weekend?”

“Sir! It’s The Air Force Academy Graduation Weekend.”

Well that-is-that said Baba Kaps.

I am staying put here in Pueblo for another night-or-two or more?

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Yesterday I put up a Singapore Rice Noodle Post showing two (2) Chinese restaurants serving my favorite dish knowing (see the very bottom of yesterday’s Post) that I already had a third (3rd) Chinese restaurant ‘lined-up’ to explore.

Yesterday’s Dilemma? What-To-Do?

Do I stop yesterday’s Post and wait until I finish visiting the third restaurant so that I can include it into yesterday’s Post with the other two Chinese restaurants?

Do I publish it because, where does this nonsense end? I could well never finish yesterday’s Post.

So I published it.

And then, late yesterday afternoon, I went out for dinner at ..

To hopefully enjoy a plate of Singapore (Rice) Noodles.

So out and off went Gimme-Some-Roy .. The Search For The Perfect High

When it comes to Chinese food, you absolutely CAN NOT NOT NOT judge the book (the Chinese restaurant) by its cover (by its exterior appearance).

Chong’s Cafe is very modest.

Into Chong’s Cafe we walk.

My first impression.

Chong’s is indeed a down-home place.

Chong’s is comfortable.

Chong’s is a sweet little place, sitting on the corner of North Main Street and West 13th Street, in the Pueblo Housing Authority neighborhood, just minding its own business, hoping to hang-on and survive for another day.

As I like to do, I sat in the very far right corner, looking out on West 13th Street.

Sort of sad-to-say, as you all can see, Chong’s was totally empty. I was its only visitor for dinner at 5:30pm.

Little places, such as Chong’s, suddenly dry-up and are blown away by the winds of severe competition. Chong’s looks-to-be a family operation.

When I held up my very own chopsticks and said my one word of the Cantonese language (Do Jeh) to the wait staff (all elderly ladies) the group of them just melted in front of my eyes. Then when I said that I have lived in Hong Kong in the Sheung Wan District West of Central and Admiralty, I became, on-the-spot, a part-owner of Chong’s Cafe.

Now I know how Mick Jagger, and all of the millions of other famous people feel when they just nonchalantly enter a room.

I wonder, I ponder, I muse ..

Do you think perhaps, just maybe, the way I honor and treat people in places like Chong’s Cafe has any, teeny-weeny-itsy-bitsy, effect on the quality of the meal that is set down before me?

“Here Sir are your Singapore Noodles.”

This, the phenomenal quality of Singapore Noodles in Pueblo, Colorado, just baffles me! Whodda Thunk?

“Baba Kaps?” .. “Yes small child in India?” .. “What does Whodda Thunk mean Baba?”

Look carefully for a few ‘tongue-marks’ on the plate below.

I sign off, kind-of sort-of, deeply touched by my visit to Chong’s Cafe knowing that, on some future someday, the elderly Chinese ladies will say amongst one-another ..

“Do you remember that man .. ”

Thank You, Oh Lord God Of Abraham, For The Blessing Of Chong’s Cafe!

/ sign me as / Your Little Captain

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