30 August 1996

False Advertising

Decades ago I went to Canton with my father to visit his family. We stopped for chili at a diner, and were disappointed to find the toilet had been disabled by a remodeling project. I took the owner's suggestion and pissed in the woods behind the building; it was a preferable alternative to being inside on a sunny autumn day.

The Shangri-La, however, purports to be "the first Cantonese restaurant to provide a disabled toilet." This is simply not true. So there.