Re: Noodles
Posted by:
Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: December 19, 2002 05:35PM
<HTML>Finally back in Sheffield... whew...
First of all, humble apologies to Dave for not being sufficiently on the ball to offer him a dried ffrog pill before he left. I've got plenty of them, so if anyone wants any, please e-mail me so we can sort something out. (They taste mostly of cinnamon, actually...)
Coherent report? Well, let's see. David - that's my friend, who sometimes calls himself Dave too but I'd better call him David to avoid confusion - produced a photo of Chris Crustacean, who has recently disappeared (as will shortly be revealed in "The Bodyswappers"). In the Nextian universe, David is JRR-862829; there are a <i>lot</i> of Tolkien fans. The Tolkien Society are after Crustacean for a variety of heinous literary crimes, and it's also rumoured that he may have abused his position in the ChronoGuard in order to get a skateboard into <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> (for those who haven't seen the new film, Legolas rides it down a flight of steps in Helm's Deep, causing instant apoplexy among those who had read the book). We were all far too polite to say that Crustacean looked awfully like David apart from the moustache. ;-) Adam took a lot of photos with his digital camera, and I don't actually remember him quoting Ezekiel at Wilfred; he did, however, say that it would be a brave penguin who tried to come between him and his beer. I observed that Wilfred wasn't so much brave as stupid. And for the record, Ezekiel 25:17 reads "I will wreak terrible revenge on them and furious punishment, and they will know that I am the Lord when I let loose my vengeance upon them." (That's my own translation from the nearest Bible to hand, which happened to be in Italian - I can't just find my NIV.) Oh well, don't worry, Adam - at least the verse does exist, even if it doesn't mention beer... ;-)
Having sampled the food, I can now add my own enthusiastic recommendation of the place to everyone else's; there was an enormous choice on the menu including plenty of vegetarian options. In the end I went for what I think they called a Khao Pad, which is basically fried rice with the culinary equivalent of ribbons and bells on. It was delicious, and everyone else seemed to be enjoying their food as much as I was. I'd never used chopsticks before but they turned out to be not too difficult; they will bring you a spoon and fork on request, but since everyone else was going for the chopsticks I wasn't going to chicken out. The main problem with them turned out to be separating them, in fact; they arrived stuck together in a paper sleeve, and I discovered that due to my weak wrists I couldn't split them apart. (Many thanks to Rob for helping out here!) The desserts mainly had an oriental flavour too, and I might have been tempted to go for one of the more exotic ones had there not been chocolate ice cream on the menu. I am a shameless chocoholic, especially where ice cream is also involved. No, we didn't have to eat <i>that</i> with chopsticks, otherwise I think we'd all still be there.
Yes, I can confirm that Spanish shoes and bra sizes were mentioned; no-one quite dared to ask what mine was, but I did take a measure of pity on them and divulge that I was a DD cup... It's all right, wives and girlfriends may relax - it's just that David owns a lingerie business. He caters for almost all sizes (apart from Adam's girlfriend, sadly, but he's working on that one), and his site can be found on www.doublerainbow.co.uk. There, end of plug! Well, I had to put it in really, as this chap looks like giving me a job...
Finally: it was great meeting Adam, Dave and Rob (putting them in alphabetical order for the sake of fairness); it was a pity Ben (and everyone else) couldn't be there; it was tremendous fun, and when can we do it again?!
And one last word from Wilfred: plick!</HTML>