Kimchi Kicks

Come. Not all birthday parties are meant to be surprises as to the venue for dinner - as Esteban had the luxury of choosing what he wanted to eat for his birthday dinner. And it was narrowed down to this: Korean barbeque.

Surprising enough, we had yet to try Korean BBQ up till then. In fact, the only Korean we ever had was when mum brought back kimchi - one bite and we decided it wasn't for us. It tasted way too weird for our tastebuds. No, it wasn't disgusting, but just weird.

But that was just kimchi - Korean BBQ should be far more than just kimchi now, no?

Well come Esteban's birthday party we had quite a large turnout: Esteban, otousan, Germ, lad, Lemon, 'Vin, Jo', Puddy, NJAPF, Jaungtis, Chief and us.

We were served a spread of different small dishes as appetizers. Thankfully for our side of the table Lemon was the only one who liked kimchi, so we gladly shoved the dish in front of him. Tofu, omelette, cockles, anchovies, kimchi, fruit salads, and they were refillable appetizers to boot! This helped keep hunger at bay while the meat slowly cooked...

We almost forgot that it was a BBQ - that meant that we could dress nice, we just wouldn't smell nice.

Sometime halfway through dinner we were asked what we thought about the dinner - we said that it wasn't filling.

How. Utterly. Wrong.

This was how Dae Jung Geum filled us up when we were least expecting it.

We're not sure. Kimchi instant noodles? Salty and spicy and swelled up once it lands in the stomach. Couple this with the chilli pan mee we had for lunch, and we knew we were soon gonna be crying out for Eno. Ivan's 'stomach rubbing after heavy meal' method somehow did ease our suffering. :P

And if the kimchi noodles (as we think of it) weren't enough, there was the Korean pancake. We were quite stuffed, and only managed a slice. We're not sure, Esteban had to eat, what, 4 slices or more?

Thankfully every birthday party we've had taught us something about birthday cakes - get a small one cukup. After a heavy dinner (yes we'll take back our words about Korean BBQ dinners not being filling) a small cake is enough. 'Course, when it's lad buying the cake we just have to ask if it's a chiffon cake bought from Bee's Confectionary, heh heh.

This cake had a little something extra. Stephanie. And Esteban showed us his skills at licking Stephanie, which was a bit...wrong. :S

With the customary group photo at the end of it all. No thanks to the waiter. :P Well at least the entire photo was shaky and it wasn't our faces that were just blurry (see, the thing that we find creepy about The Ring wasn't her crawling out of the telly, it was the blurred faces).

Happy 27th Esteban! And while you broke tradition of taking a Flaming Lambourghini for your birthday at least you had a Tequila Pop. And you certainly fared better compared to Cotton Club two years ago! :P