"The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they
 called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his
 goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable
 credibility in Confucian eyes. Inscrutable because he has gone to his
 grave without divulging the Secret of the Eleven Herbs and Spices. It
 has been the first fast-food franchise established on the Bund, many
 decades earlier. Judge Fang had what amounted to a private table in
 the corner. He had once reduced Chang to a state of catalepsis by
 describing an avenue in Brooklyn that was lined with fried chicken
 establishments for miles, all of them ripoffs of Kentucky Fried
 Chicken."

			--Neal Stephenson, "The Diamond Age", p.91