We couldn't get reservations at the Airplane-themed restaurant last night, so we decided to go back to the dinosaur restaurant, Jurassic, that we visited last month. Since the menu is WEIRD we decided to go to Burger King first and just have drinks at the restaurant.
This didn't stop Nareesa from ordering a snack of cuttlefish MOUTHS!! It was just a plate full of little round MOUTHS. I didn't try this dish, but she and Mark were adamant that it tasted pretty good.
I don't know how they decided on mouths as a snack, especially when delicious fish chins were also available to order.
The last time we were at Jurassic there was a woman singing with live MIDI-keyboard accompaniment and she must have sang "Happy Birthday" to about forty different tables. She was performing again last night, so we advised the male keyboardist (who had the most amazing perm, btw) that it was Christine's birthday. Actually, I believe Christine advised him that it was her own birthday, but either way she wound up being serenaded a little while later. Please note that it was not actually her birthday. They started out with a traditional rendition of "Happy Birthday" (catch the tail-end of the performance in the video above).
Then they moved on to a sped-up version of "Happy Birthday" and randomly passed the mic to Mel to finish the last verse. She put a lot of soul into that verse, I promise you.
At the end of the night we all huddled around the calculator to determine who owed what for which deep fried mouths. It never works out evenly so the birthday girl spent the next two hours demanding "23" from me. That's 60 cents. I promise, I'm good for it!
The other teachers live in the school dorms and have to be home by 10pm every night, but regardless, around 11:30 we marched into the Longshan Temple night market and ordered some shaved ice and ice cream wraps. Rebels! The five of us piled into a taxi (which is always cute) and headed back to ol' Sinjhuang. When Mel and I got off the elevator to our floor our neighbors were waiting to surprise us with a new mattress for our bed. Unwilling to blow hundreds of dollars on a mattress, we've slept on an air mattress since we moved here! So, we carried the mattress in, observed that it was rock-hard like all Asian mattresses, covered it in foam padding and blankets, and went right to sleep. Hard as it is, it still beats an air mattress.
So the best part of this night? For the first time ever, I didn't lose my wallet after leaving the Jurassic Restaurant. Success!
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