Anuki & Samadhis:

Memory Lane

Culinary excursion

Anuki: It was a Saturday and Samadhi's Birthday, I was counting the days until finally it arrived. Do you know why? Well, because she promised a real treat for me. Though it was her day, when you guys read this will find that she made my day too.

We walked in to a restaurant which is close to our office and is well known for mouth-watering food. Of course we have been there several times, and that was the main reason which made us walk in this particular restaurant.

Samadhi: When we first went there, I had fried rice with vegetables. I didn't want to have the same thing again, but I'm vegetarian there were only two other vegetarian items in the menu. I ordered something with a Japanese name because I was sure that it was gonna be edible.

I had learned Japanese at school as well as at the Uni and although I didn't know what the dish was exactly, I knew that it would not be raw fish or anything gross. I wrecked my brain to remember the explanation our text book had to offer for 'Tempura'. Surely it has to have rice fried/boiled/steamed in some exotic way!

Ok, almost half an hour.... Hunger is excruciating, but the dishes haven't arrived yet. Finally I see a plate, a huge one at that, making its way to our table, my mouth waters.... Oh disappointment.... it's Anukis dish. It looks sumptuous! Where's mine.

Hey wait a minute here it comes.... an equally huge plate. What NO RICE!!! All I see are some white protrusions around the plate and a huge mug of soy sauce sitting squat in the middle! Anuki is laughing her heart out.

Ha ha ha very funny. Uhhhh.... I have gastritis already. No choice have to eat what I ordered. I take one cautious first bite. Anuki is laughing holding her stomach. Mmmm come to think of it, it's not soooo bad. At least the soy sauce is. Remind me never to order anything I don't know the name of.

Anuki: Well, it wasn't only Samadhi who go through with these kinds of incidents, we people generally tend to order the stuff that we never heard of (in Samadhi's case she didn't have any choice) and end up with an empty stomach.

I still remember what, laughter we had that afternoon, and thinking of the incident, especially the hugest plate that we have seen reminds us to be cautions of what we order when inside of a restaurant. Anyhow I must thank Samadhi for making the day with a culinary excursion.