Mid Autumn Madness

Let's see. What happened in the last 3 weeks? What did I accomplish? Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. I was basically ill during the entire time and I am still trying to fully recover from this gross and mysterious unknown that plagued me.

So first I started getting fevers, not serious ones, but serious enough to make me feel dizzy and almost faint going down the stairs to the skytrain at Commercial Drive. I took the right pills and felt better after a day or two. Then it comes back. Then it goes away again. And comes back. And goes away. Okay, it came back and I went to see the doctor and it was magically gone. He checked me for strep throat (whatever that is) but it turned out to be not so.

The weird fever roller coaster did continue and I managed to go down to Richmond to see the Chinese herbal doctor who gave me the black stuff to drink which got rid of my fever...but a horrible sore throat came out of nowhere to haunt me. It was one of the most horrible symptoms ever, I didn't even want to drink water! So I saw the doctor again, who tested me for strep throat and sent me for a monospot (another whatever that is) blood test. I started antibiotics and the fever came back...ohhh what a horrible life. I had to see the doctor again, now he told me to stop the antibiotics because he concluded that it was a viral infection but not mono and enough rest and water (plus time) should do.

Oh, and the nastiest part of all this. I was told to have white patches in my throat area or something. So I stood in front of the mirror at home and pointed a flash light into my mouth saying ahhhhh and saw patches of white stuff stuck on my tonsils or something. It looked so gross...although it could have just been old gum or marshmallows stuck there. Or maybe even mushrooms growing hahahaha!

A better experience at POSH

One month after the horrific wait for sukiyaki at POSH (Richmond), I had a better experience at the Broadway POSH last night for a "Shanghai" reunion. None of us are actually from Shanghai except we went to Shanghai as a group together a few summers ago. It was going to be our friend's birthday too (oops I think we forgot to say some important words) and we haven't met up in such a long time. Too bad we could not have everybody here but there's always next time! (And we did make a reservation this time and we did eat a lot again to get our money's worth.)

Now I am just waiting for that picture of the pot of oily soup after the meal was over.

Don't starve yourself before this all-you-can-eat dinner

Doesn't everyone starve themselves before all-you-can-eats? Well, I did it again before I headed into Posh for sukiyaki in Richmond and I regretted it. From 6:30pm, a 45-minute wait turned out to be a 1.5 hour wait all because of a large birthday group that took up most of the seats in the restaurant. To make matters even worse, they decided to split the bill and lined up to separately at the front counter. There must have been nearly 30 of them. It took them forever to settle the bill and they held up the tables that people were desperately and hungrily waiting for.

Another large group was paying together but it took them almost 20 minutes to gather enough money to pay the bill. Don't they feel a bit ashamed when 15 Taiwanese (sorry no offense) are standing up and yelling at each other things like "Hey, have you paid your part yet?" or "Hey, we are still short a hundred bucks." My tall and broad-shouldered friend was about to give them a good beating and boot them out of Posh had he not been starving for not eating since 10am. I could barely stand when I had to use the toilet about 1 hour into the wait...

Stefanie is just a very simple name, but you really had to be there at the scene to appreciate the joy and delight when this name (under which the table was reserved) was called, finally. At last, we could eat.

The point of this story is, if you still haven't caught it, to not take so long when settling the bill. Seriously, 20 minutes in-and-out of the restaurant running about looking for your friends who have left the table but haven't paid the bill is just damn stupid. Not one of them could take out a credit card first. Use some common sense when you eat out next time please.

Oh and by the way, a special recognition to the waitresses at Posh for keeping the brightest smile throughout this chaos. I really admire their professionalism even with a bunch of dumbass customers they have to deal with =)