Today i still remember what that man looked like: he had a head of blown-up hair like Einstein's, and what was more frightening was its fiery-red color.

This is a huge steaming pot of soup divided into two sections: One has cream-colored chicken broth; the other is fiery-red oil full of chili peppers and numbing Sichuan peppercorns.

I was a lanky stick with shoulder length, fiery red hair that I wore parted down the middle, and to top it off I also wore glasses.