さやまぐろ
My senior colleague, who is usually busy except during the Bon and New Year's holidays, occasionally contacts me out of the blue. He said he wanted to eat Chinese food. Hmm, deciding on Chinese food for just the two of us is a bit of a dilemma. Well, it's probably going to be his treat anyway, so even if it's good Chinese food, I feel like I want to eat something like dim sum. So, we decided on Hong Kong cuisine. We ordered Stir-Fried Daikon Cake with XO Sauce for 780 yen, Shrimp Rice Noodle Roll for 880 yen, and Bone-In Meat for 1080 yen. The Daikon Cake had a chewy texture and the XO sauce was fragrant and delicious. The Shrimp Rice Noodle Roll had shrimp on a soft and thin skin, similar to a dumpling. The rice noodle roll itself didn't have much flavor, and we ate it simply with a soy sauce-based sauce. It was a new experience for me. And then, we made a big mistake. We should have looked at the menu for the Bone-In Meat dish more carefully. I thought it was going to be a main dish with meat. A boiling hot pot was brought to us with the bone-in meat on top. Yay, meat! Meat! My excitement was short-lived, as what caught my eye underneath the meat was a thick layer of rice noodle rolls. Wait, is this dish mainly rice noodle rolls...? Unlike the Shrimp Rice Noodle Roll we had earlier, this dish had layers upon layers of rice noodle rolls. No matter how much we ate, it didn't seem to decrease. Yet, the white, jiggly substance was steadily accumulating in our stomachs. Is this thing multiplying inside the pot? Oh, I give up. I'm sorry, god of rice. In the end, we filled up most of our stomach space with rice noodle rolls, unable to even try the other dishes, and we left the restaurant. It's common to go to a Chinese restaurant with a large group, but this time, we ended up with regrettable results. I'm sorry, senior, it turned into a rice noodle roll feast instead of a Chinese food feast. Let's gather a larger group next time and have a rematch! Oh no!!