Buying food from strangers: Living Dangerously.

Looking out the window at one of my client's establishment, I noticed a chinese man handing boxes to multiple people on the street. It was a gold Mercedes Benz SUV and multiple people would just approach it and the man would hand them a black box and they would walk away.

I decided to approach the vehicle to find out what was going on, but the man didn't speak english. I was ready to walk away when another guy approached the car, and lucky for me, he did speak english and he was fluent in chinese so he could translate between me and the man delivering the goods.

As it turned out, people would purchase food on an app that only functions in Chinese, which explained why all people approching the vehicle were asian. Then when the food was on location, they could come and pick it up.

Although the man in the Benz seemed not affiliated to any restaurant as far as I could gather from the short, translated conversation, I decided what the heck, I'd buy some if he'd let me...and he did!

I assumed the food would be not very good (and might I add potentially deadly or just plain bad). In any case, it was worth trying.

At plain sight, the food looked ok. I mean, the combo seemed a little odd: upper left corner, tomatoes and eggs, upper right corner, plain rice, bottom left corner: beef and green peppers, and bottom right corner, plain beef.

I assumed because of the understanding I have of AUTHENTIC chinese food having barely any spices in them, this was not going to be very good. On the contrary, it was some of the BEST chinese food I have ever had! The eggs aside, the flavors in  both variations of beef were just amazing. The one with the peppers was slightly spicy, with flavors of ginger and other spices. The plain beef was anything but plain: a mixture of spices I had never tried and sadly  couldn't recognize in case I wanted to emmulate the seasoning, softness unbelievable for beef.

I sat there in shock  as I couldnt' believe my taste buds, and before it was too late, I ran outside to tell them in whatever motion and expression combination I could, how good this was. To which the man laughed and responde by giving me a free soda.

All and all, I  have to say I am happy to have dared to buy food from this srtange situation, and I'm hoping to see the mysterious car once again, carrying some deliscious surprise food box.