Sometimes in small towns you see a Chinese restaurant on the main street like the Canadian Cafe on Bridge Street in Almonte advertising Chinese and Canadian food and visible through the window is a can of buff coloured plastic chopsticks with engraved Chinese calligraphy in red and blue and green and potted plants cacti--Christmas and jade tree mums sophisticated invariably yellow and even a fruiting ornamental orange in such places you are sure to find honey garlic chicken balls along with the mandatory hamburger deluxe meaning a tomato slice and a leaf of lettuce and French fries instead of mashed and chop suey if you please personally I prefer the real deal apparently Chinese people don't eat chicken balls considering you only get two per bird that's a lot of chickens and anyway char siu and chow fun are much more interesting as long as you are not worried about getting hyper from the impossibly red dye and ca...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!