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January 08, 2005
seafood day and soy sauce packets
fu ho and i went for a late lunch today at ons. ons is a cafe-bar-restaurant which serves modern/fusion asian food. i had the pad thai with salmon and prawns, fu ho had the fish in yellow curry with pandan rice. the portions were huge, and were both satisfactorily tasty. we were really really stuffed. hence the late dinner at 10 pm.
for dinner, fu ho wanted something light. so i made a big bowl of salad, and went to the store to buy ingredients for a cold seafood platter: smoked scottish salmon, harring fillets, sushi moriawase --> mixed sushi. i baked fresh bread rolls, and a garlic baguette.
the sushi came with a packet of wasabi, pickled ginger and soy sauce. the soy sauce was in a little plastic container shaped like fish, with a red cap as its mouth. it reminded of when i was working as a waitress in a japanese restaurant in london.
one of my tasks was to fill the soy sauce bottles on the tables, as well as the little soy sauce packets for the take-away orders. sometimes when it wasn't busy, and i was really bored, i would do about 100 of those packets at a time, sitting there all night behind the sushi bar, squeezing soy sauce from the big plastic bottle with the syringe-like tip into the small take-away packets.
we were supposed to give each customer 1 packet for every 4-5 sushi pieces and then charged 50p for every additional ones, but i used to chuck the extra packets in there for free.
so there's my little soy sauce story. i'm going to play grand theft auto san andreas on the ps2 now, with fu ho and robert.
Posted by Yasmina at January 8, 2005 11:19 PM
