Saturday, October 11, 2008
Food & Photo Blog: The Cathay - Nihon Mura and BnJ
Met up with part of the Juzoners for dinner at The Cathay. I was pondering on the location as to why in the world would they want to meet there, when there's not much food choices. We decided on Nihon Mura, a Japanese restaurant, nonetheless.
Anyway, I was the last one to reach but not late loh as the organiser (Gen) mentioned to reach around five plus which was so vague. I assumed if I reached at 1745hr was reasonable right. lol.
The place was dimly lighted, yet simple and nice. It felt like I was dining in a densely 'bambooed' eatery. Actually, I love the wood finishings. It makes the restaurant looks like a village.
The waitress then directed us to our table and summarised on how they work - The sushis on the conveyor belt are all for $0.99 and the rest are ala carte which we've gotta pick up ice-cream sticks and placed in on a small black container. Afterthat, hand it over to the cashier and food will be served promptly.
I think if you stick to the sushi, it's pretty much a good deal and they offer quite a wide variety. Sushis were decent. Nothing of the extraordinary. But when you're hungry, you eat almost everything. The hind sight was that the rice fell off quite easily.
By ordering the other dishes through ice-cream sticks is a cool idea. Just that, you dun feel the pinch till you see the bill. Crafty marketing eh. The concept here is like Marche and Shokudo where they dun make you pay upfront and you can order as much as you like. I feel that the food here is slighty better than Shokudo's even though Shokudo presents a more diversified variety. I'm still upset bout the 10% service charge when majority of the work is done by us =(
The drinks here are charged and no free refills. I guess that's because of the 99CENTS sushis. However, if you're a fan of sashimi, this place is probably worth the money. It's damn shiok!
Then, it was some photography time to let our tummies to grasp for air before they started to scream for help =/ But I think I'm only three quarter full? =P
After dinner, we headed upstairs for more food. heh
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I think most of the time I'm like totally in a world of my own. Met HY afterthat, talked pretty much and with her updating me juicy news was quite entertaining. We seldom have this chance to sit together and talked for that long when furthermore, it's so near my place. hahah. Oh well, thanks for ditching your friends =P
Btw, I happened to read Wormy's blog and this got me thinking.
Do people realise when they slowly drift and float away?
Do they realise or do they choose to believe otherwise?
Or maybe, they werent even close in the first place?
Labels: BnJ, Food - Japanese, Food for Though, JuZone, Nihon Mura, The Cathay
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