O'Tasty

There are many foods in this world that go very naturally together. Peanut butter and jelly, bacon and eggs and cookies and milk, just to name a very unoriginal few. Chinese food and spare ribs is not one of those bread and butter combinations. (HAHAHA, you see what I did there, I threw in another example, but it flowed too, HAHAHA…haha…ha). But that seems to be the case with a local restaurant here in the DC area. One night about month or two ago my girlfriend Austin and I wanted to order in some Chinese food. Austin had gotten a bunch of junk mail that day but a Chinese menu happened to be a part of it, which was convenient. So we started looking through the menu and deciding what to order. First of all, the name of the “Chinese” restaurant was O’Tasty. Flashing warning lights should go off in your head when a Chinese restaurant is called freakin’ O’Tasty. Somehow I doubt there is a dude name Chin Meng O’Tasty who runs the place. Just a hunch. It seems much more suitable for an Irish guy to own a joint called O’Tasty. But whatever, this “Chinese” place called O’Tasty had all the normal staples of a Chinese menu: soups, lo mein, fried rice, sweet and sour dishes, beef, chicken and the like. You know, Chinese shit. But then I started seeing weird things crop up on the menu, like mozzarella sticks. And turkey burgers. If you perused the whole menu you realized what a bizarre combination of foods O’Tasty was trying to bring under one roof. So here is a list, no joke, of some of the more utterly random menu items besides normal Chinese cuisine that you can order from O’Tasty. Note: all spelling is exactly as it’s printed on the menu.
- Mozzarella Stick
- Apple Turnover
- Bar.b.q Spareribs
- Jumbo Cheeseburger Sandwiches
- Onion Rings
- Crab Cake
- Gvros
- Steak and Cheese
- Fish Sandwiches
- Boneless Spareribs
- Fried Chicken (2,3, or 4 pieces)
- Buffalo Wings
- Chicken Tenderloins
- Filet of Fish Cheese
- Turkey Burgers
- French Fries

Needless to say I was stunned. The first Chinese/Fat Ass American Food combo that I had ever seen. Austin and I ended up just ordering regular Chinese food, but always get a laugh when thinking about O’Tasty. 85% of the menu looks normal, but the remaining 15% is priceless. I leave you with the logo of O’Tasty, where a fat Chinese chef is throwing the deuce at everyone in attendance. Which is what I’m going to do now. Two fingers everyone. Have a great Labor Day Weekend. Peace.