... And, scene!
I feel like this entire Thai Restaurant date has been one long set up. I'm ashamed I didn't see where this was going.
I just had to share that last night Mrs. Wanders and I went to see Hamilton in Philadelphia, and stopped at a restaurant on Walnut Street called Chatayee Thai. It was even better than My Thai on Elm Street. In fact, it was the best Thai restaurant we've been to in three years since moving to South Jersey from Maryland. We had resigned ourselves to the belief that the one cuisine missing from the otherwise exquisite regional menu was Thai. But we solved that last night. I've never photographed my food before, and I felt like such a dweeb doing it, but I had to share my order with you: Pad Thai with tofu, of course.
First of all Wanders, I am so jealous that you've seen Hamilton! I hope you enjoyed it. It came to Boston last fall and you couldn't touch the tickets, as it sold out so fast.
ReplyDeleteWith all this Thai talk, I made Pad Thai chicken last night. Sad to say, mine looked nothing like yours, although it was tasty. (I got the cooking sauce and veggies in Walmart.) At least my noodles and myself were not drunk like Wilbur.
When I lived in Westchester County in NY, Thai restaurants were few and far between. Here in Maine, there seems to be one on every corner. Sadly, my husband is not into Thai food because of the spice factor. Perhaps I can talk him into the duck with drunken noodles.
Now onto Wilbur. It seems like every day this week JB and KM have topped themselves with Wilbur and his drunken tomfoolery. I bet Estelle is thinking that homeless plate licker is starting to look better and better. Heck, even Arthur/er looks better. Wilbur looks like he's doing an impression of Curly from the Three Stooges eating drunken noodles with chopsticks.
Speaking of chopsticks, I must commend JB for drawing Zak holding chopsticks correctly. She may not be able to do phones, but she can do chopsticks.
The only thing that would make this anymore awesome is if Wilbur falls face first into his drunken noodles.
Another candidate for the Worthy Awards panel of the year.
I sincerely enjoy how Wilbur, having said his piece about sissy tofu, is now content to excuse himself from the conversation and drunkenly drop noodles into his mouth/onto his shirt. At first I thought Wilbur was making a big mistake getting loaded before going out on a date, but now that I'm witnessing this 'liquid courage' fueled display of insouciance towards the much wealthier, younger, virile and handsome Zak, I have to admit Wilbur is playing this perfectly.
ReplyDeleteI'd give credit to Zak for appearing entirely unfazed by Wilbur's exhibition, but he's probably floating by on capsulized calm.
It looks to me like Wilbur is still drinking. Why wouldn't the restaurant have cut a loud, obnoxious and embarrassing sloppy drunk off? I would not be amused if I was sitting at the next table to Wilbur.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recommendation on the Thai restaurant (we live in Bucks County). And as for Wilbur, I'd say the clock is ticking down on his relationship with Estelle. You can't put this down as an "endearing quirk" as Mary calls them.
ReplyDeleteSometimes go to our local Thai place with my knitting group pals. It’s actually called Pad Thai but has a very comprehensive Asian cuisine menu. I also have a spicy food problem, so I can get Moo Goo Gai Pan while my friends tease me. As to the happy little double date party, I am sure that the other customers are as acutely uncomfortable as Estelle and Iris. Zak either has amazing aplomb for a millennial, or he’s just clueless.
ReplyDeleteI will also confess my burning jealousy that you and Mrs. W got to see Hamilton — what a terrific show — and while the food looks gorgeous and I’m sure tasted delicious, my standard now for any meal is how good it would look on Wilbur Weston.
ReplyDeletenot a tofu fan, but that dish is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAnd Hoo boy! does Wilbur has issues.
Seeing “Hamilton” was the rare incidence of something surpassing my already high expectations. What a phenomenal experience!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy Thai food but am far being an authority. Lobster fried rice sounds kinda Americanized to me. Is that correct?
If Wilbur is the "drunken noodle", Estelle must be the "duck".
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ReplyDeletePellegrino? I’m surprised that Zak didn’t display his savvy by ordering a Thai beer. I found an extensive list in a simple online search. Perhaps Zak, unlike Wilbur, doesn’t imbibe. (Although have we seen him drinking wine with Irish?)
Estelle's plan to sober Wilbur up at dinner is going about as well as anyone would have predicted. The lady is fecklessness personified.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait until they try to split the check and Wilbur insists on going 50-50 even though he has an $80 bar tab.
The most that anyone has done during this dinner is stuff food into Wilbur's mouth. Why hasn't anyone else tried to rein this guy in? At this point, it's hard to believe that the restaurant would still be serving him alcohol (in CA this would be illegal). It is as if Zak, Estelle and Iris are all pretending everything is fine.
ReplyDeleteI predict AA in Wilbur's future. And a long, lonely future.
The Thai restaurant near me does not provide fortune cookies but I'm going to imagine that My Thai does. I want to see Mary answering her door and Estelle pulverizing a fortune cookie on Mary's forehead.
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If Wilbur was sitting at my table there is zero chance I would've stayed through all his sloppy, slurring insults and embarrassing behavior. Why are they all still there?
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ReplyDeleteKM couldn’t even come up with an inspirational quotation today. I’ve got one: “The more I see of men, the more I like my cat.” —Random T-Shirt.
I hope Wilbur has the Uber or Lyft App on his phone, because I think he’s lost his ride home.
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ReplyDeleteHEY! Who wrote today's strip? Where's Karen Moy? There's no quotation! And, what's with advancing the story with a brand new Wilbur gaff instead of just rehashing all the ones from last week? This is not right!
HONK! HONK!
ReplyDeleteOh, I like Fauxprof's idea. I came up with a quote for today too.
ReplyDeleteA man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin
"I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!"
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"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life."
ReplyDeleteI actually like Yak's response to Wilbur - "That's my dad's favorite movie!" Heh.
At this point though, isn't it time for them to stop pretending like everything is okay, tell Wilbur off, and leave? He's committed numerous slappable offenses and now he appears to be trying to fondle Iris' breasts.
"What soberness conceals, drunkeness reveals."
ReplyDelete"Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus."
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ReplyDeleteOK that's it, any sympathy for Estelle is gone. She hopes he won't remember how he behaved? If I was her, I would hope that he remembers every repulsive detail. Although, he so self-centered, he probably won't feel he behaved that badly.
I can't believe no one said anything to him throughout that whole debacle, other than Irish saying "Wilbur, what's gotten into you? Having said that, though, I'm sorry to see the dinner ending. Most entertaining MW panels in ages.
YES. Exactly what I was thinking. Really Estelle? Wilbur is totally humiliating you and you hope he won't remember in the morning? You deserve 1,000 Arthur/Arturs and Libby deserves a new home.
ReplyDeleteImjb 1964: My thoughts exactly. Any sympathy I had for Estelle is totally gone. She brings him home to sleep it off? I would have left him at the restaurant in a drunken stupor and let the restaurant deal with him.
ReplyDeleteI agree that I hope he remembers every drunken detail. I've always considered Wilbur a repulsive toad and he proved it in spades.
MDMaryTed, I agree with you about Estelle. What a total idiot she is. She went out on the worst date ever with the worst person ever and she's giving him sympathy. She's definitely got a screw loose. I wish Arthur/er would come to her house, tie her up and steal everything she's got. She is a true idiot.
I'm wondering what Zak and Iris are thinking. I bet they laughed all the way home about what a creep Wilbur was.
BTW, who cleaned off Wilbur's shirt?
Estelle seems to be willing victim. You’ve got to wonder what her life was like with her dear departed husband. I also hope that Wilbur remembers everything and wakes up with the mother of all hangovers. Perhaps he will go to Mary, who will cure him with muffins and platitudes. Until the next time.
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