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2010-05-12

A Dinner @ Jyuraku, An "ang mor" who came looking for Jason

That's how my imagination work:
Just the other day, while we're having dinner @ jyuraku…
One "ang mor" (mat salleh, caucasian guy!!) came in, and looked for a guy named jason…
We're sittting near the entrance, our favourite seats, at the bar counter.. Ya, opened, but yet private!

This ang mor was then, asked to sit at the waiting area, and wait for the supposed Jason to appear, which, the waitress there, thought, is one of the chef there…
Then, when, a guy came in, waitress told him, oh, so, he's Jason, and this "Jason" paused, looked at the ang mor, and talked to him…
APPARENTLY again, this Jason's not the Jason that ang mor's looking for…
So, ang mor left…

Simple event right??
Well… not so for me, while the ang mor's waiting there, I kept looking at him, ie. checking on him from time to time, it’s not that he's very handsome or super ugly!!

Later, after the dinner, I asked him, what he thinks…
He said, maybe "Jason" and ang mor are gay partner!!
Haha, how simple!

My "interpretation"??
Ooh… see, we're sitting just next to the waiting area, ie. at the door…
When the ang mor came, he looked humble, in fact, he's not bad looking, but that's not the point…
He looked humble, a bit too humble, and what more to say, this jyuraku's not like rakuzen, ie. the hippy place, it's more for family, and old people, IN people go to rakuzen, or other places, but not jyuraku, another thing is, this area's not like downtown, it's full of japanese, but not so for ang mor!!
So, why does an ang mor suddenly appear in this area, and in this restaurant??
I do wonder..

To him, I mean, him, ang mor looks like a gay…
But to me, he looks more like… the purpose he's here, is for $$$..
When the waitress suggested him to sit there and wait for Jason, he HUMBLY sat down, and waited quietly, ya, so near to me…
If you've watched, many years ago, 1993, Michael Douglas' Falling Down, you'll know what I mean… ^_^
See… since the economy turned back, I've seen ang mor attending our gov. tender, representing small companies, bla bla bla… I hate to spell it out, but then, somehow, there're a bunch of them, who're affected, and yes, I'm sympathetic towards them…
And that's why, when an ang mor, suddenly appeared in this neighbourhood, in this restaurant… I felt a little bit strange about it, and like I said, he looked like, he's here for $$$, either to try to borrow from Jason, or to ask Jason to return his debt…
Yep, that's what I imagined..
And just like "Falling Down", what if?? What if he can't find Jason, and what if Jason doesn’t have the money and he suddenly went crazy??
Again, since there're so many gun-shooting cases in US… who knows?
Will he be pulling a gun out, or TRY TO HOLD SOMEBODY RANSOM??
Oh no!! My baby's easy target, or, WE WERE easy target…
That's why, I kept staring at him, oh, checking on him, in case, he'd really be showing faces of desperado…
But phew… luckily, none of those that I've imagined… happened!!!

See!! Sigh… that's why, I've so many "unnecessary" worries!!!

2010-02-28

Izakaya Ichiban @ Plaza Damas


Just now, we went to plaza damas (for a change) for japanese dinner….
We're planning to go to rakuzen in fact, but then, we're also prepared to not being able to "secure" a seat… and that's true, there're just too many people waiting, even though it's already at 2030…
So, we made a quick decision, to go to another japanese restaurant along the same road, ie. izakaya ichiban…
Well… japanese restaurants in klang valley offer more or less the same type of food, or similar menu, the difference is only the taste, the price, and the portion, in terms of food…
Of course, ambience is different among each other, everywhere!!!

Anyway… I've gotta mention this place is… because…
THE PORTION IS DAMN SMALL!!!
Irregardless the taste was pretty good, but not that good until the extent that, we can "tolerate" the small portion…
(err… in fact, we did tolerate, cos, we're just way too hungry, though the afternoon itself, we wallop 2 big packs of chicken rice from the "bentong" chicken rice shop @ kelana jaya, yummy!!)
Taste wise, really, was good, but the portion was really a little bit towards the "pathetic" side… as compared to our favourite JyuRaku…
And what more to say, the price is more expensive…
Usually, at exactly the food items that we order, at JyuRaku, the bill will just come out to about RM70, but this place, we just paid RM90!! Sob sob!!!
(no wonder, people would rather queue up and wait at rakuzen)
The items? 1 portion of sake sashimi, 1 terriyaki chicken bento, 1 saba shioyaki bento… and that's all!!!
The sake sashimi was fresh, and the cut was thicker, that's ok…
The terriyaki chicken pieces given to us, was just a handful!!! (imagine that!!)
And the saba shioyaki piece given to us, was just half of what JyuRaku will have to offer… gosh!!!!
Ok, the taste, as I said, WAS GOOD!!! Tasty!!
However… to have to "survive" with such small portion, I feel a bit sympathetic about ourselves!!!

But then again… at the end of our dinner @ 2130 only Rakuzen called back and told us they've seat!!
We told them, we're already full!!
(ya, filled up our stomach with more cold ocha!!)