Japanese Buffet and 3 Heavenly Kings Reunion

Weather: Cloudy

Temperature: 28°

Today is Friday. According to the working culture here, Friday night is a night you forget about your work and enjoy yourself with colleagues or friends in some entertainment outlets like karaoke, pubs, night clubs, spas, etc. Or you might want to dine at expensive restaurants.

This evening, Bom called me and asked me to get ready at about 7pm. “We are going to eat Japanese food!” Bom said.

At 5 minutes before 7pm, I was waiting at the main entrance of the apartment. It was raining.

Bom came in a cab a few minutes later. Also in the cab were Lantat and Bom’s colleague named Alfonso, a Malaysian Chinese.

“You wear your Hawaiian suit again?! We are not going to swim you know?” Lantat complained. Bom politely asked, “other than your Hawaiian suits, did you bring any proper attire?”
“Yeah, I brought 2 suits for interview.” I answered.
“What about for casual wear? Did you bring anything other than Hawaiian suits?”
“Eh… I am not sure, have to ask my wife. She packed my luggage.” I proudly said.

We travelled about 15 minutes and reached our destination. The Japanese Restaurant was called 田村.

For buffet with alcoholic drinks, the price is RMB128 per pax. Without alcoholic drinks, the price is RMB98 per pax.

Unlike Malaysian style buffet where all the foods are served in one area waiting for you to pick up, here they do it very differently. There is no precooked food served, you can order anything from the menu, and whatever you order be it “10 sets of Salmon, 10 sets of grilled beef, 10 sets of Octopus, 10 sets of Sashimi, 10 sets of Tempura” they are all covered in your RMB 128 or 98.

So naturally, displaying the full spirit of Malaysian Kiasuism, we ordered the most expensive ones. Unagi grilled, Vegetable Tempura, Prawn Tempura, Tuna, Salmon, etc. And we ordered the most expensive liquor too. It was a small cup of alcoholic plum drink which cost RMB30 per cup. But you can have unlimited refill. Basically you can drink untill you can’t recognize your wife.

The food was awesome and the service was excellent. The waiters were pretty too. Oops!

The 3 Kings reunion took place. We talked a lot about the past, the funny moments, the future plans and shared information on the current status of our ex-classmates. With the effect of the alcohol kicked in, we enjoyed the moments more. We left the restaurant at about 12 midnight.

The 3 Kings: from left Bom, me and Lantat

We would never imagine we would have this opportunity to have dinner together in Shanghai say 5 years ago. Things changed at directions we are unable to predict.

Cheers to our future and dreams in China.