Tuesday, July 11, 2006

"High Life in Japan?"

Let's start off with the Taxi Service. Bloody old Toyota Crown, gear stick on the steering wheel, zooming you here and there and then costing you an arm and leg. These are the taxis, which are waiting at the Office lobby to take us to our dinner place. One thing about these taxis - They are ALWAYS (at least 95% ) on time!

Had dinner with some Japanese colleague, at a steak house. That's right, fancy coming out this far to eat western food in Japan. Resturant name is Belguim-Kan, or "White Ear Ant(z)". Call it co-incidence or what. Just found out the Japanese name for Ant. "A Ri” - written as あり. Mmmmm.. maybe a good time to translate Antz to ありつ!


Start off with a light course, then the best part.... soup! Nice little glass bowl presented by nice Japanese waitress, white creamy soup.... Ok lah, tot what the heck, enough for me to rince my mouth before main couse can already... Dig in with my "very abused" spoon, whack! Ice Cold Soup! Wake up straight away boy..... Funny way of serving soup. New Age Western Course?


Next Main course... at least something nice to savour. Japanese beef IS Japanese beef after all. No matter how they cook it, it is just so tender, almost like melting in your mouth.. OK, la! 9/10 for a nice steak.



Finally dessert! Cheese Cake with Strawberry ice cream, finishing off with a nice cup of Gourment Coffee.... And a bloody bill of about S$200 per pax! Lucky I aint't paying for it! Sometimes, I really wonder how much rich the average Japanese make in a month...

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