Addendum.

Like a month later, the next time I ran into my one (British) friend, I said that I was spooked by that restaurant, and though I enjoyed the food, I'd never go back, for fear that the Supreme Master would give out some signal and suddenly they'd start poisoning everyone the night I happened to be in there.

He seemed unconcerned, so I was like, "What, you weren't bothered?"

"Not really," he was like. "I actually found it kind of sweet."

"Sweet?", I was like, "Try fucked up."

"No," he was like, "It's kind of nice to have the Supreme Master turn out to be a woman for a change."