excerpt from v3, v1:

Konstantin, the Russian waiter with the faux-French accent serving us Italian pasta (taken by the Portuguese from the Chinese) at Le Provençal, a French restaurant inside the hotel Paris, an "I am France" establishment in the middle of the Nevada desert (Vegas), USA.

<> "Look at me, I am French." - Arun imitating Konstantin
(back in LA).

note for future reference: his name wasn't really Konstantin