Tuesday, October 31, 2006
While I was in Sydney last weekend, Aya and I went to this Japanese Restaurant in Kensington, close to the University of New South Wales. At first glance, it has this unattractive, dilapidated shop front with a large sign 'Sushi Tengoku', which in Chinese means 'shou4 si1 tian1 guo2'.
Apparently it has a reputation of making very enourmous servings of sushi, at a cheap price. For example, look at the size of the sushis compared to Aya's Motorola mobile phone...
Here's the tamago and scallop sushi... Huge, isn't it?
A piece of a salmon sushi costs 3 bucks, cheaper than a plate of salmon sushi (two pieces) sold elsewhere, but the size of the salmon is larger than two pieces together. It's so much larger than the sushi rice.
The food was quite slow to come, though. It's like a family business and there was only one sushi chef, I think. Lots of take-aways, which is different for sushi restaurants.
All in all, it was a good meal. The highlight came when we were about to leave. An uncle and his two daughters (I think) came in and sat by the table next to ours. He had a metal twist-top bottle of wine, which he did not know. So he was trying to open the wine bottle with a cork screw. But he couldn't figure out why there is no cork to stick the screw in! The metal twist-top basically has two parts. The top part which you twist to open, just like a soft drink PET bottle cover, and the metal part underneath the cover which is fixed to the bottle. So he started peeling the bottom part, which is metallic. He almost had everything except the twist-top cover peeled off and he still can't open the damn bottle!
We were just looking at him, giving each other ridiculous glances and smiles until Aya couldn't stand it and just before we left, Aya politely make a gesture and said to the uncle, "it's a twist-top." But the uncle still doesn't understand. So Aya just grab the bottle of wine, and easily open it!
When we left the restaurant, we burst out laughing. That uncle just made our day!
Apparently it has a reputation of making very enourmous servings of sushi, at a cheap price. For example, look at the size of the sushis compared to Aya's Motorola mobile phone...
Here's the tamago and scallop sushi... Huge, isn't it?
A piece of a salmon sushi costs 3 bucks, cheaper than a plate of salmon sushi (two pieces) sold elsewhere, but the size of the salmon is larger than two pieces together. It's so much larger than the sushi rice.
The food was quite slow to come, though. It's like a family business and there was only one sushi chef, I think. Lots of take-aways, which is different for sushi restaurants.
All in all, it was a good meal. The highlight came when we were about to leave. An uncle and his two daughters (I think) came in and sat by the table next to ours. He had a metal twist-top bottle of wine, which he did not know. So he was trying to open the wine bottle with a cork screw. But he couldn't figure out why there is no cork to stick the screw in! The metal twist-top basically has two parts. The top part which you twist to open, just like a soft drink PET bottle cover, and the metal part underneath the cover which is fixed to the bottle. So he started peeling the bottom part, which is metallic. He almost had everything except the twist-top cover peeled off and he still can't open the damn bottle!
We were just looking at him, giving each other ridiculous glances and smiles until Aya couldn't stand it and just before we left, Aya politely make a gesture and said to the uncle, "it's a twist-top." But the uncle still doesn't understand. So Aya just grab the bottle of wine, and easily open it!
When we left the restaurant, we burst out laughing. That uncle just made our day!
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