Acrobatic Chinese salsa dancing
Acrobatic Chinese salsa dancing
I'm the worst dancer, but it doesn't matter when you're dreaming. I was at this hot salsa club with my buddy Chris Ingoldsby in San Francisco. The place was packed like a Tokyo disco, and it was their last night before turning into a gay bar. We were trying to teach the overworked bartender how to mix our tequila drinks correctly, but eventually we just jumped over the bar and started mixing them ourselves. I was in that drunken dream state of complete coordination and fluidity when this awesome salsa track comes on and sucks all of us onto the dance floor. I try to blend in by copying the good salsa dancers, but after a while have to drop that idea, and decide to start twirling around like an ice skater or a Whirling Dervish. Eventually I'm twirling so fast that I start floating above the dance floor. People are really into this, and try to copy, but it doesn't work for them. Suddenly my salsa levitation spinning is interrupted by some Chinese gangsters who bust into the club and start shooting people. Everyone rushes out, but I'm still floating there, and the main boss guy seems pretty amused by this and we start talking. He takes me outside, takes off his white linen jacket, and shows me his best kung-fu moves, doing a bunch of cool flips and jumping around. Then he motions for me to follow up with something. I don't know any moves, but I'm still in that weird state of fluidity, so I do my best imitation of Jet Li, adding a couple of flips. He seems satisfied, and then shows me some more complicated moves. He's good. It's like we are doing some sort of weird breakdance contest. Finally he wants me to do like this triple flip thing mixed with a pike and a half spin off of the loading dock onto the concrete below, but I start to sober up during mid-jump and totally wipe out like a MX racer, and wake up.
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Hmmm... haven't done a meringue in probably 5 years...
You have to stop watching those old Huang Fei Hong movies late at night. You're getting delusional.
Hua! Yuk! Aieee! Mok! Blah! Wahhh!
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I've never figured out whether it's pronounced "Moe's (like owned by one of three stooges) or Moss (like that guy out of Bonanza), but the one down the hill from me is open until 2am most days, which means that if I get out of the club early enough, I can catch the best burger in town, the muo si la bao or the Spicy Mos Burger. They have lots of jalapenos and 
