So we play it "safe" with braised black bean beef short rib lo mein (basic wheat noodles) which confounds expectations by delivering splendid, slow-cooked beef with a good, salty-punchy sauce.
Nino, delivers a splendid Shylock-like speech about the condescension of the Italian mob (I don't know whether it's the work of Refn; the screenwriter, Hossein Amini; or the novelist, James Sallis, whose book he adapted).
A maddeningly flexible Labour politician, one of Gabriel's backers in a new restaurant venture, delivers a splendid oration showing that, depending on how you look at it, Britain has either shed its dead industrial skin to become a dynamic knowledge-based economy or put over a colossal fraud.
On cue, the waiter delivered a splendid zucchini cake.
Number eight Nathan Thomas delivering a splendid long skip-pass that ended with Palmer crossing.
Cotterill delivered a splendid corner and Jones rose high to send a powerful header into the back of the net.
Having started acting up in the early 20th century, when matches were watched in hushed reverence, he quickly became something of a legend, delivering some splendid harangues, not least "Your length is lousy but you bowl a good width".
"Contigo" delivered morsels of splendid movement but little theatrical arc.
Here he delivers something quite different: a splendid defence of preciousness and etiquette, a rallying cry for the importance of aesthetics even in prison, even in exile.
