I almost didn’t do anything too much interesting today. And also I’m getting a bit worn out by what my friend Amnon calls “writing diarrhea”. It’s more like constipation now, as it doesn’t come out easily and fluently but rather hard and I have to force it out…
I ate dinner with only Nelson. We got out of the office and didn’t know where to go. In one of the earlier days I saw that they have branches of one of the American food restaurant chains called “TGI Friday”. I havn’t ate there (in the states) for over 5 years now, so even tough it’s good ol’ American food, and not the Chinese food that I’m suppose to try every kind of, I convinced Nelson to go there. He lived in the states for I think 15 years, but havn’t ate at “TGI Friday” so much too, so he didn’t mind. When I suggested it to him and Sterling a few days before, Sterling really didn’t want to go eat there…
When we got really close to the restaurant, (which is near the SOGO store I was in day 2 with Bob and Idan), we realized that there’s actually a lot of restaurants in the area and we don’t have to go to TGI Friday’s if he prefers something else. I got the chance to try something new again. It’s something he calls a “Curry” restaurant. Even though Curry is more Indian, this is a Japanese style restaurant. Taiwan is influenced greatly by Japanese. Basically all the dishes are the same. You get a combo meal, with salad, soup, and large plate of rice, with Curry sauce. The only difference between the dishes is what’s cooked in the sauce. Chicken, beef, pork, seafood, vegetables, etc. You’re supposed to choose how spicy you like your curry, on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 is not spicy, and well… 5. I asked him what level were those spicy noodles from the other day, he said something about 3 to 4. I ordered 2. I didn’t want to get my stomach upset again. I didn’t help. Level 2 was actually as hot as those spicy noodles and they didn’t make me feel that good. Luckily the sauce and rice come separate so you can put only a little sauce and a lot of rice and it’s almost not as bad. Nelson took no. 3, and it was way to spicy for him, he was actually sweating. He told me that they got an impression from Idan that I could even eat the no. 5 thing. Idan can’t eat anything spicy at all. Too spicy for him in that restaurant would be something like -78. Whenever they took him for dinner and ordered something a bit spicy, he couldn’t eat it, but told them Oded would probably eat it and probably even more. He was telling them I can actually drink raw tobasco!
There was a time I could. I would eat “Schug” with a spoon, and eat pizza with 1/2 bottle tobasco in each slice. That was about 10 years ago. I can still eat, and still like spicy foods, but my stomach doesn’t. I even got doctor’s orders not to eat anything spicy or I’d get nauseated. I tent to listen to my doctor, and thus thing that were once not spicy to me, are now making my stomach even more upset, just because I’m not used to it anymore…
I Wonder if I’ll get to go to TGI Friday’s.