“Umm. Pardon me. Waitress. The menu didn’t say anything about little round balls of meaty fruit-like objects. All it said was monkfish soup served with bean sprouts and chili sauce. And this is definitely not monkfish. These are balls? Of something? Are these monkfish eye balls?? What is this?”

“No. Silly. They are sea snails. You know, for flavor. You can’t serve monkfish soup without sea snails. Gives it good flavor, huh?”

“Errr. Yup. Flavor. That’s the word. Flavor. One more question, is there a Korean drag queen in the back making the soup?”

“She’s left her eyelashes in our soup.”