Waiters and restaurateurs are forever tipping off the press so that when Cheung tries to leave a restaurant, a phalanx is waiting for her.
饭馆的侍应生和老板总会向媒体告密，所以每当张曼玉离开饭馆时，总有一群人在等候着她。Just for your info, the Peking Duck seems to be having a promotion at only $30. So remember to ask the server if the promotion is still on.
还有，找食趣要和你们分享好东西，北京烤鸭好像在搞促销，$30一只烤鸭。记得和侍应生确认喔。The other possible reason I left empty-handed after each function was that I was the worst waiter in the hotel, or possibly in the world.
另一个可能是因为我是酒店最差的侍应生，可能是世界上最差的；所以在每次宴会结束后，我都是两手空空。It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
人生还不至于像侍应生看得那么严肃，是一件好事情。I could have done, in my waitering days, with some of the methods that, US researchers have found, make customers more likely to tip.
美国研究者已经发现了一些更能让顾客付小费的方法。我真该在作侍应生的时候用上这些招数。She gave me this look as if I were crazy, and when the waiter came she ordered fish -- for a lot more than $8.
她看我的眼神就彷佛我疯了一样，侍应生过来后，她点了鱼，这可比8美元要贵多了。Helen did not straight home after school. She went to work as a waitress in a restaurant.
海伦并没有在放学后直接回家。她去餐厅以侍应生的身份打工。The Italian restaurant that my friends stole cash from as waiters is now Moghul, one of the most famous Indian restaurants in the country.
而那家意大利餐厅（我朋友在那当侍应生的时候从店里偷过钱），现在却摇身一变成了全国最著名的印度餐馆之一——莫卧儿餐厅。Porter You know all the years I have lived here I have not been there.
侍应生你知道我在这里住的这些年来，还从来没去过那里。