IdentityPersonal file
A personal index kept by Jose Ruiz-Vazquez, army brat. Type specimen: Dorado, Puerto Rico. Not a restaurant. Not a brand.
The Egg Roll Index is a field manual for judging Chinese-American kitchens by ordering one egg roll. Jose keeps it. The type specimen was fried in Dorado. The ranked list opens at twelve entries; until then the file is chronological.
Nothing here is a directory, a sponsorship, or a house organ. Scores describe one egg roll on one night. Instrument No. 1 is the rubric. Field notes are the applications. The Wire is the dispatch file.