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This one Yelp review was classic:

I've never eaten here so the rating is irrelevant, but the Edelman thing has me annoyed enough to comment:
First thing to note for everyone out there; no Asian person would eat out of a bunch of cardboard boxes. The fact that he is too lazy to actually sit down in a restaurant and eat like a civilized person already says a lot about his likely wanting social skills. The only thing that can be legitimately eaten from boxes is pizza. Despite the portrayal in TV and movies, eating Chinese food from boxes is déclassé in the worst way.
Secondly, Edelman probably suffers from small member syndrome or was perhaps beaten by his older siblings. He feels the need to flex his "obviously" superior position in society to essentially bully the regular folk to remind them of their status. There's a very popular description for people like this. It starts with a "d" and ends in "bag". In a recent book, The Seven Deadly Virtues, the author Andrew Ferguson writes that:
" certain forms of ignorance are available exclusively to intellectuals who know so much that they have forgotten how much they don't know "
This description seems apt for Edelman who, while possibly is adept at teaching negotiation, is most certainly a boor in real life and not really that good at it himself. I'm sure his classes will be the hot ticket on campus now. Amusingly, this follows right on the heels of the outing of his kindred spirit over at MIT, the now infamous Jonathan Gruber. He of course publicly stated that the American voters were "too stupid" to understand the Obamacare construct.
Thirdly, since Edelman offers to be mollified by payment by the restaurant of an amount triple the offending error, I would think that opens him up for a charge of extortion. Perhaps some of his Harvard Law buddies can make an example out of him.

The eatery’s business is now booming. The ‘professor’ is being drawn and quartered several times per hour. This has already been settled, but news travels in slow waves across our vast continent. So expect new expressions of disgust and sympathy to keep popping up for the next week or two. The story is so effective because this customer satisfies nearly every stereotypic negative character trait most attribute to Harvard and to lawyers.