jesse says he spotted this sign at a great mongolian restaurant in the dallas area. “they recently changed their name from ton’s mongolian grill to tao’s garden, but apparently they haven’t figured out how to spell it yet.”
related: best. potluck. theme. ever.
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#1
SF Iris
They should get a Facebook page and then they could put how they really feel on the feed:
Tao’s Garden is tired of people leaving their leftovers on the table.
Tao’s Garden has your leftovers packed and sitting in the garage!
Aug 31, 2008 at 5:44 pm rating: +25
#2
Canthz_B
I wonder if “Tao’s Gadren” has the half baked chicken I see advertised so often at Asian restaurants…it’s so rare that someone wants their chicken rare.
Aug 31, 2008 at 5:53 pm rating: +5
#3
Canthz_B
I like the quotation mark as opposed to an apostrophe.
That’s a hand-written typo only a Zen Master could make!
Aug 31, 2008 at 5:55 pm rating: +6
#4
secondsout
Holy shit! Do they have Mongolian barbecue? I’ve got my hat ready and everything!
Aug 31, 2008 at 5:56 pm rating: +11
#5
Timo
Egad Ren! You should have had your spelling hat on not the Mongolian BBQ hat when you made the sign.
Aug 31, 2008 at 5:56 pm rating: +1
#6
secondsout
Ahh, America. Only in America do you have the option of eating as much as you can possibly stuff down your throat. The whole concept encourages overeating. And to make it all better, it sits under a warming lap until the cattle come feed at the trough. Yummy!
Aug 31, 2008 at 5:59 pm rating: +2
#7
amy d
But I can’t help if I miss my mouth sometimes. I have an eating disorder.
Aug 31, 2008 at 5:59 pm rating: +5
#8
anglophile
When it was Ton’s Mongolian Grill, it apparently offered all the food you can put on your waist.
Aug 31, 2008 at 5:59 pm rating: +4
#9
Canthz_B
Tao”s Gadren does not approve of waste…try a side order of sum dum mes on your next visit!
Aug 31, 2008 at 5:59 pm rating: 0
#10
secondsout
Tao”s Gadren has no bathrooms. They are very anti-waste.
Aug 31, 2008 at 6:08 pm rating: +4
#11
Canthz_B
Tao”s Gadren:
Try our anything you can write alphabet soup!
Aug 31, 2008 at 7:20 pm rating: +6
#12
Rockoutwithyour..
While I sympathize with the owners not wanting tons of wasted food, I don’t think a PA note is truly going to change how people behave. Sadly, I know people who in spite would probably waste even more. Or perhaps they could be like me and simply have eyes much bigger than their stomach.
Aug 31, 2008 at 7:57 pm rating: +2
#13
Quite Contrary
Nice use of Wingdings & Wingdings2!
Aug 31, 2008 at 8:29 pm rating: 0
#14
Quite Contrary
Me thinks that Tao”s Garden has more to worry about than just their inability to spell. It looks like they have an inability to fill a restaurant.
Aug 31, 2008 at 8:31 pm rating: +2
#15
se
Gadren is a Mongolian word that means “Cave where we eat all your children”
Aug 31, 2008 at 9:00 pm rating: +15
#16
Canthz_B
Tao”s Gadren is against waste…see how we found a use for this Halloween construction paper?!
We know “Garden” is misspelled and that we used a quotation mark instead of an apostrophe, but you got the point, so we didn’t use another sheet.
Aug 31, 2008 at 11:50 pm rating: +4
#17
snee
tao”s gadren has really gotten down to the essentials of the “all you can eat buffet”. it’s either big waist or big waste.
Sep 1, 2008 at 1:30 am rating: +1
#18
Canthz_B
This is the free market in action, pitting the gastric system against the consumer’s appetite, against the conservationist within us all.
Heady stuff!
Sep 1, 2008 at 2:08 am rating: 0
#19
Canthz_B
When you open Gluttony Gardens, you forfeit the right to count up the waste.
Sep 1, 2008 at 2:19 am rating: +4
#20
jackie31337
If I recall correctly, in Chinese culture it’s considered polite to leave some food on your plate at the end of the meal to show that you are satisfied. Otherwise, the hosts feel that they have not provided enough food and will keep bringing you more. Must not be a very authentic restaurant.
Also, they totally stole their PAN from Dilbert. The missing third line to the strip is “Technically it’s all you CAN eat, not all you DO eat.”
Sep 1, 2008 at 4:55 am rating: +1
#21
Red Letterboxer
There used to be a restaurant in this town that did offer the “all you can waste” buffet, but Al Gore shut it down.
Sep 1, 2008 at 8:48 am rating: +2
#22
Lisa
Maybe the misspellings and quotation were discards from someone else’s sign and they didn’t want to waste them.
Sep 1, 2008 at 9:15 am rating: +2
#23
aaa
Meh, I’ve got nothing. Maybe something about how “Gadren” sounds like something out of Lord of the Rings or how you can’t expect the clientele of a buffet to adhere to concepts like self control or the reduce part of “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” but no. I’m instead going to rot my brain on the Dominic Dunne-a-thon on CourtTV.
BTW, does anyone else think that CourtTV (I guess TruTV now) kinda sucks giant nards now?
Sep 1, 2008 at 12:42 pm rating: 0
#24
S&M
Stimpy became more critical in the end and took to criticizing Ren more before the “accident”.
TruTV totally went into licking the sweat from giant sloth nards. They somehow forgot what made them good in the first place and added shite programming.
Sep 1, 2008 at 1:36 pm rating: 0
#25
Janie
Actually, it’s a pretty good place to eat, but the lady gave me the evil eye and I wasn’t having it.
Sep 1, 2008 at 4:31 pm rating: 0
#26
smalvarado
I’ve cracked the mystery of the Gadren (thanks to the lying bastards at Wikipedia) regarding the Three Jewels of Tao”ism:
“The second is jian (Chinese: ?; pinyin: ji?n; Wade-Giles: chien; literally “frugality, moderation, economy, restraint, be sparing”),”
Aha!
“a practice that the Tao Te Ching (e.g., chapter 59) praises. Ellen M. Chen (1989:209) believes jian is “organically connected” with the Taoist metaphor pu”
[Make your own joke here]
(? “uncarved wood; simplicity”), and “stands for the economy of nature that does not waste anything.”
So the sign should read: “PLEASE CONSIDER PU BEFORE EATING AT TAO”S GADREN. THANK YOU!”
Sep 2, 2008 at 1:00 am rating: +1
#27
Delphi
I hate when buffets get all uppity about customers wasting food. It would be fair to have a ‘no waste’ rule if everything tasted good, but no less than half the food at ANY buffet is inedible. I’m not gonna choke down a cardboard dumpling from the Ming dynasty just because Tao”s Gadron frowns on waste…
Sep 2, 2008 at 8:29 am rating: 0
#28
Ryan
Waist Knot I Gut!
Sep 2, 2008 at 10:06 am rating: 0
#29
secondsout
You will eat the parsley, the chicken bones, and even your Mongolian BBQ hat. We do not waste here. Eat them!!
Sep 2, 2008 at 11:09 am rating: +1
#30
Stephanie
This place is still disgusting. You should see the floor in the cooking area. Oh and all your meat starts in frozen chunks.
I ate there once and will never eat there again!
Sep 3, 2008 at 11:50 am rating: 0
#31
Chloe
…so clean your plates, dammit!
Sep 3, 2008 at 4:14 pm rating: +1
#32
optimismopski
You leave now! You been here 4 hour!
Sep 6, 2008 at 7:30 pm rating: +2
#33
ambra
There’s a restaurant in Seattle like this called “Foodie Goodie” and it’s a Chinese Buffet. They CHARGE for uneaten food. After we got a taste, we know why. Disgusting.
Sep 9, 2008 at 9:55 pm rating: 0
#34 the sushi nazi
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