It’s 2064, and the world has changed a bit. The countries of Yankee Land and California are in a state of shaky peace. In the independent country of California, robots are citizenz (with some restricted rights, until humans feel the time is right to grant them the right to own businesses, marry, vote etc.) In a San Francizco ghost kitchen, whose owners have fled town for both nefarious business dealings and bad food, a group of deactivated robotic workers left behind in the seedy crumbling space, re-awaken. They decide to try and create food, good food, scrumptious food, not the crap they’d had to prepare before. What follows is their path to opening the Authentic Noodle shop. The delicious journey through their beginning steps to opening the doors of Authentic Noodle is peppered with memories of the war and their past, their struggles being second class citizens (even in this brave, new world), and growing awareness of the gifts their new lives bring. Then, an online troll, bigoted against robots, begins to harass them, driving down ratings and morale. The robots fight back, their weapons are their wits, their resources in the cyber worlds, their individual talents, and most important, their community.
I read the journey of these robots and their noodle shop with a smile on my face, and a craving for hand pulled noodles. The journey from their Authentic Noodle kitchen to Automatic Noodle is a satisfying one.
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