“Vegetarian, are you, Lek, a lot of Buddhists are, aren’t they? You are a Buddhist, aren’t you? Most Thais are”.
Lek looked to Craig for help.
“Most Thais are Buddhists, and so is Lek, but most Thais are not vegetarian, and nor is she. However, she won’t eat coloured rice. It has to be white or she won’t eat it, and paella is made up predominantly of?”
“Yes, I see”, said Bill, “saffron rice”.
“Bad luck”, said Jim, “is that because she is a member of some weird, minority Buddhist cult, Craig?”
“I don’t know, ask her”. So he did and Craig had to explain.
“No”, she replied and left it at that.
“Jim found those telephone numbers for you, and gave them to Bill, who gave them to me. The rest you know”.
“Thank you very much, both. Perhaps we will have a teacher of Spanish tomorrow”.
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