We stayed on the strip at New York, New York - a lovely establishment that really is a city unto itself. If you go to Vegas and are near the strip I highly recommend going on the Manhattan Express Roller Coaster at NY, NY. It is way cool, complete with corkscrew, loop, and huge drop. What I do not recommend is eating at the Chinese restaurant in NY, NY. Here's a picture of the restaurant:
It's not that the food is bad, it's that the translation is bad and I about died laughing when I saw the sign. The reason? "Chin chin", while a toast in Chinese, means penis in Japanese. If you don't believe me, check out this definition.
I love when that sort of thing happens. I wonder if the NY, NY folks know they have a penis restaurant in their casino. Good thing it's across the way from a hot dog stand...
Also of note on the trip was our late night cab ride home from the Orleans casino on Saturday. Q and I were fortunate enough to land the most racist cab driver in Vegas: Las Vegas Lou. Upon entering the cab, the shaking octagenarian told us "If I don't make you laugh, you pay half." He then proceeded to tell us approximately 14 jokes explaining the difference between various races/religions and African Americans (although he used a less PC word). Q and I were extremely shocked and didn't know what to do. Still, one of the jokes stayed in my mind because I really hadn't heard anyone tell a joke about Samoans before. I'll tell the joke using hashers as a less-than-desirable race:
What do you get when you cross a Samoan and a hasher?
Samoa hashers. (pronounced "Some more hashers").
Yes, it was bad. Note to travelers to Vegas: Do not eat at the penis restaurant and do not enter a cab with an old guy named Lou.
2 comments:
What, you went to Las Vegas and you didn't hook up with the LVHHH?
On On,
Flying Booger
That's better than having your cabbie hit on you the entire time and give you his number to "call whenever you need a cab...or anything else."
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