Don Day: Asia Oriental Express. My Civil Opinion

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde

Published December 2, 2022

Every morning I get an email from a Facebook site. It carries the not so catchy headline:  [CivilSMA1] Civil San Miguel de Allende, formerly Civil SMA from YahooGroups. It’s commonly called The Civil List. It’s the only daily email I choose to get from any Facebook site.

Most mornings I open the email. I try not to if I’m supposed to be doing something that Don Day’s wife calls “meaningful”. But it’s hard not to open it. The list usually has at least two or three snippets…perhaps one little gem…of information, sometimes some juicy gossip, and once in a while some differences of opinions.

I like differences of opinions, a little more so when they become squabbles. They’re great spectator sports. As long as you stay on the sidelines. Which is sometimes hard to do.

There were some very varied opinions on The Civil List recently about something I think I know a little about, a restaurant; more specifically, it was something I think I know a lot about, a Chinese restaurant. I couldn’t stay on the sidelines. I had to put my gloves on. I had to step into the ring. I had to order their food. Maybe fire my opinion into the fray.

The restaurant in the posts was called Asian Express. I put Asian Express San Miguel de Allende into the world’s most popular (their words) search engine. First page: Nothing. Second page: Nothing. Fifth page: Nothing. Tenth page: Nothing. I found Asian Express restaurants in three Canadian cities, eleven U.S. cities, in Chile, France and Ireland but none in San Miguel.

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