At some point, every single home or business or church or structure
of any kind — empty, under-construction or abandoned — in the East Village has had a Wacky Wok menu placed on the front door. Multiple times. Maybe daily.
Probably daily. I'd argue that there are more Wacky Wok menus around than any locksmith cards combined.
I've spent too much time thinking about this through the months. (Years?) Do the Wacky Wok menu droppers work on commission? Are they paid by the gross tonnage of menus delivered? Does Wacky Wok have a printing press in their basement on Avenue D at East Ninth Street? Is Wacky Wok a better name than, say, Wok and Roll?
Anyway, I always seem to run across the locksmith people bombing the doorways. But I've never seen
anyone from Wacky Wok leaving the menus behind. Once, I walked into my building and, about 45 seconds later, decided to run another errand. In that time, someone put a Wacky Wok menu on the door. I quickly scanned the street with the enthusiasm of a child catching Santa in the living room (preferably late on Dec. 24). There wasn't anyone in either direction.
Anyway, I started taking photos of the WW menus. A sampling.
Well, you get the idea.
Then, the other day, I spotted
this fellow pulling the cart thing stick a menu on the front door of 100 Avenue A, the former grocery that has been sitting empty for seven months now...
He turned east on Seventh Street. I followed to watch him work. When I rounded the corner ...
he was gone. Into,
presumably, the Wacky Wok time continium vortex.
Now this isn't anything against Wacky Wok, a healthy
ish Pan Asian eatery. For me, it's a curiosity, not an annoyance. And I've ordered food from here, and have mostly found it agreeable. And I have four or five menus to choose from every time that I call.
