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My Housemate Big Kitty
My housemate’s name is Big Kitty, she is a Chinese 10th grader who attends to the Ross School in East Hampton, New York. Big kitty is a very peculiar name, she told me she got it because when she was younger she got attack by a cat that almost kill her. She is not so tall and kind of chubby. She likes to cook when she gets home after school, and usually she will cook her favorite food; spicy noodles. While she is cooking she turns herself into a professional chef, making all kind of tricks that only a really good cooker will know.
She cuts the vegetables perfectly, and boils the noodles carefully to get a perfect taste. The expression of her face while she cooks reflects that she knows exactly what she does without any doubt. She moves from side to side in the kitchen to grab all the culinary herbs, like basil, pesto, cilantro or many others, so her food can have the extra perfect taste. While she waits the noodles to boil, she always reads a book or a magazine, that is always on the table near the kitchen. When the noodles are done, she likes to sit in the couch in front of the TV to enjoy her meal while her favorite TV show, “The Oprah Show”, is on.
I can see her laughing and eating her noodles from the living room while I do my homework. When she ends her meal, she goes back to the kitchen to clean her dishes and all the mess she made while she was cooking. She cleans everything to perfection , because she likes keeping her working area clean for the next time she gets inspiration to cook. She is a total master in the art of cooking noodles.
One day she decided she was going to have lunch at the East Hampton beach. She cooked her famous noodles as usual and pack her meal to enjoy in front of the beach. She put a towel on the sand to use it as a table cloth and started eating her meal. While she was having lunch a little girl got close to her and told her that she was lost and that she haven’t had food in hours. So Big kitty gave her some noodles, and the little girl got really happy and thanked her. Suddenly a police officer started screaming “KATY KATY! Your mom is looking for you come here”. Her mom got out of a black luxurious car with two body guards. She came close to Big Kitty and thank her for taking care of her. “Mom, she gave some super delicious noodles”- Katy said, “You should try them, and you can cook them at your restaurant!”. What Big Kitty didn’t know was that Katy’s mom was the owner of the most famous restaurant at East Hampton. The woman tried the noodles and loved them. “Would you like to work at my restaurant?”- The woman said to her. Big Kitty’s dream was to be a professional cook when she got older, now it was about to come true. And without even thinking it twice, she accepted to work at the restaurant. “When its going to be my first day?” Big kitty asked. The woman told her she would start on Monday. “You would work Monday to Friday from 9am to 6pm”. “WHAT?!” Big kitty replied “I’m still in high school, I can’t work on that schedule.” “Oh.. you are still in high school ?” the woman said, “I’m sorry for you, you can’t have that schedule work out for you”. Big kitty started crying and she ran away leaving behind her noodles at the beach. She came back home and told everyone at the house what just happened, and everybody there said we were really sorry for her and that we knew someday she would be an awesome cook, with her famous noodles and all.
Months after we wen to the East Hampton restaurant to have dinner. We were looking at the menu to choose what we were going to order, when suddently we noticed that there was a special plate on the menu. The special of the month was called the kitty’s noodles. “She stole my recipe!”- Big kitty said, “ how can it be?” We all replied. “Well, my grandma said if you are a super good cook you can figure out the ingredients of a plate when you taste it, and I kind of forgot my noodles at the beach that day, she probably took them to her restaurant and asked his cook to recreate something with the same taste”. The we ask the waiter to call the chef, so Big kitty could argue with him. The chef came to the table, and everyone went quiet. At that moment Big kitty turned around and screamed “LIA?!? Is it you?”. The chef turned out to be Big Kitty’s cousin Lia. “My dream is ruined”- Big kitty said, and left the restaurant soon after. We we got back home she told us that her cousin Lia was the only one who had the noodles recipe besides her. She never cooked noodles again.
