A million miles of fun

A Legend of Korra fanfic by A03 user Dandybear, set between "The Stakeout" and "Long Live The Queen." The Red Lotus make a stop at an all-night diner somewhere between the Si Wong Desert and Ba Sing Se. A recommended work.

""The truckers on the other side of the restaurant are eating fruit tarts and staring open mouthed as she packs away a party platter single handed.""
 * All Lowercase Letters: The title.
 * Big Eater: Tall, lithe P'Li orders off the family value menu—which, although it doesn't explicitly serve twelve people, certainly adds up to at least enough food for all of the other three put together, if the waitress asking if it's to share is any indication—and is actually that hungry. Guess combustionbenders must have blast-furnace metabolisms.

"Restaurant Manager: “Until the currency situation is rectified we ask that spirit customers pay us in human money. I don’t care if they told you they’d bless your family’s crops for the next year.”"
 * Bland-Name Product: "Deni's."
 * Crack Fic: And one that pulls off taking itself entirely seriously, no less.
 * Cordon Bleugh Chef: The "Grand Slam Croquette" is a fritter containing boiled eggs, duck sausage, curried pork, red bean paste, and sticky rice. The description garners a cringe from Ghazan.
 * The Ditherer: Zaheer is that guy who takes his sweet time ordering. Based on the other three's response (or lack thereof), this is par for the course.
 * Funny Background Event: Aside from P'Li and her appetite being something of a Running Gag, we also have the following treasure:


 * The Hyena: Ming-Hua apparently finds everything hilarious when sleep-deprived.
 * Greasy Spoon: This particular Deni's is apparently a truck stop. Which serves Cordon Bleugh monstrosities that make anarchists cringe.
 * Must Have Caffeine: Downplayed, as befits P'Li's character, but she really wants chi-enhancing tea at the beginning.
 * Punch Clock Villain: Ghazan's canonical tendencies in that direction are emphasized to the point that he verges on Token Good Teammate status.
 * Running Gag: Again: P'Li's absurdly prodigious appetite.
 * Ship Tease: There are definite Mingzan hints.
 * Shout-Out: The title itself is a song reference. Ghazan's cringe at the "Grand Slam Croquette" is a reference to Pink's reaction to the description of the "Grand Slamwich" in the second charlie teh unicron video. And not only does P'Li know what she's about when she's ordering, but the tea for which she's fiending at the beginning is implied to be the same sort that Aang was given in "The Avatar State."
 * Toilet Humor: Where to start?
 * Too Much Information: Case in point: Ghazan's brain-to-mouth filter seems to be out of commission (and Ming-Hua promptly hangs a lampshade on it).
 * Villains Out Shopping: It's a Quirky Miniboss Squad at an all-night diner, so...yeah.