Monday, March 10, 2008

Well, it happened last night, it was my next door teacher friends birthday and Satan used ice skates to get to work.  For dinner we went out to dinner at the all you can eat sushi restaurant.  The thing is I had gone to that place on Wednesday and then on Friday I went to an all you can eat tepenyaki place that also included sashimi.  That place was really really good, it included sake, asahi beer, lamb chops, salmon, and steak.  So after last night I am amazingly sushi-ed out for the moment.  I'm not sure how long that will be but for the moment I am sushi free.  
Secondly, I went to a new bar last night after dinner with him and some other friends.  The bar is called Galleon and it is located at the top of the Intercontinental Hotel at Overseas Chinese Town(which is the actual chinese name of the neighbourhood or OTC)  Anyways, the place is okay and it has a microbrewery with the name Blanca.  The hotel is spanish themed supposedly though I couldn't really see it, but the menu proudly proclaimed that the beer was named for a spanish word for blonde.  The palce was pretty nice, all the waiters and waitresses were in pirate attire.  Lots of restaurants that feature ethnic or foreign or themed foods have costumes which is kind of funny, especially taco bell grande where they all wear large concial sombreroes.  Anyways, it was the usual mix of Chinese couples, perhaps a bit more western men with younger chinese women, and a few foreign couples.  They also had a live samba band which was fun.  The beer on tap was pretty good, though we prdered two different types that they had and they only brought us one but it was nice.  Oh, almost forgot, the bar itself is an actual ship, or at least the outside of a wooden galleon on the roof of the building.  I'm not sure why they chose this but it was funny and fun and I'm not sure if you can get up to the deck of the ship as the hold, or where the hold would be is where the bar is, but I think they also serve food earlier in the night so maybe then you can eat up there.

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