The thin diners could not handle anything more ambitious.
In thin years, diners value their wallets over their palates.
They came with custard which was watery and, unlike these two diners, thin.
At Ssambap Korean B.B.Q. in Stony Brook, for instance, diners cook thin slices of raw meat on gas grills at their tables, then take the cooked morsels of meat and enfold them in a romaine leaf, possibly adding some bean paste, scallions and sliced radishes from among the condiments on the table.
You can board up the place where they used to sell white hoods, you can have a grand ceremony and wind a relic down a pole, but it's not going anywhere: That quiet white supremacy, beating you to shit, it's in smoky bars in leather vests, in diners shaving thin slices of red velvet cake with a fork.
It is surrounded by a thin white curtain which allows diners at the table to view out into the restaurant but prevents other diners from viewing in.
A thick, garlicky rouille is spread on thin slices of toast for the diner to immerse in the soup if he wishes.
Half-eaten meals still sat on tables and napkins lay on tables and chairs, as though the diners had disappeared suddenly into thin air.
With a mid-range under $60, a short wine list of fairly priced international bottles accommodates diners with both fat and thin wallets.
Mr. Chen prefers to cut his fish in longer, thinner strips than some diners may be accustomed to, and his sushi tends to be "more fish, less rice," as Ms. Chen put it in a follow-up interview.
