Filling the blanks with ice cream mountains and swoon-inducing vistas, the cinematographer Du Jie delivers moments of visual ecstasy that almost make us forget that they're framing a reckless cipher.
Among the stockpiles are three-dozen laryngoscopes, one-dozen disposable skin staplers, twenty-dozen tubes of diaper rash cream, a mountain of lovingly assembled personal hygiene kits, 3,500 hard hats, and a thousand-gallon box of dishrags.
But my favorite dish was the scrambled eggs that Luard made with an unseemly amount of farm butter and double cream and a mountain of fresh sorrel.
There's that bold, hot borscht ($5 cup, $8 bowl) with a dollop of sour cream and a mountain of beets, meat and potatoes rising out of its lively broth.
They pay for free Google-branded ice cream at its Mountain View, Calif.
Other than the obvious must-do of shedding pounds, eating celery instead of cream puffs, the mountain was something I had to overcome.
A vanilla-scented, buttery, freshly made spongecake doused with good berries and a mountain of cream can be a marvelous dessert.
We also liked what the menu called mountain berry cream flan, which was the familiar Italian tart with mixed berry topper, usually translated as fruits of the forest.
Like sinuous whirls of whipped cream, buffeted into a mountain range of peaks and spilling out to form a zig-zagging landscape, it is the most complete realisation yet of the Iraqi-born architect's vision of swooping curves and flowing space, which she brought to London's Olympic swimming pool.
"I am so glad you wanted to go do this with me," I said, after parking in Allyn and walking up to the small Olympic Mountain Ice Cream shop.
