Part 1, Chapter 6 Summary

It is Thursday night at the Empire Grill where Tick and Miles are having their traditional dinner together, now that Tick's parents are separated. Thursday is International Night at the Empire and, although Miles was skeptical at first, David, in his role of always trying to push Miles forward into new ventures, talked him into it. Notwithstanding his initial skepticism, International Night has proven quite successful, even drawing in repeat trade from the nearby college. Tonight is Chinese Night and David has put together a tasty mess of twice-cooked noodles with scallops in Hoisin sauce. Roger, the second fry cook who has been out on a bender since Miles returned from Martha's Vineyard, is cynical about such culinary extravaganzas, insisting you should cook noodles until they were done the first time, and that it made no sense to go off and...