Waiting in line sucks. It’s boring, your feet start to hurt after only a couple of minutes, and you begin to question every life choice that brought you to stand in a queue with 30 other people.
But while waiting in line for a scallion pancake from Rising Tiger at the Longmont Farmers Market on Saturdays, all of those annoyances disappear. In the glow and anticipation of that chewy, heavenly pancake — which is served wrapped around char siu (Chinese barbecue pork), local greens, egg foo yung, roasted garlic aioli and provolone cheese — you’ll forget about your dead phone, aching toes and the fact that you had to wake up before 10:30 a.m. on a Saturday to order the dish it before it sold out.
In this line, realization sets in that waiting is not only bearable, but a privilege…