Hope it’s a good ‘un…looking forward to a debrief on the birthday menu…

Hip Hip, Hooray!

bluegreen said:

Hip Hip, Hooray!

Thanks BG :)

Dinetta said:

Hope it’s a good ‘un…looking forward to a debrief on the birthday menu…

Lunch was at my favourite restaurant with friends. Went the Tepanyaki, its a bit exxy these days but still worth it. Started with a bowl of miso, and their yummy green salad with ginger/onion dressing, followed by baby squid stuffed with beans and carrot sticks. Fried rice served (cooked at the table) and then their yummy shrimp appetiser, served flambé’d again at the table. Followed by some steak, some lobster, some fish, and prawns all cooked Tepanyaki style in front of us. Served with seasonal vegetables.

We then brought some goodies down stairs ready for dinner… How does this work? K22 for an iceberg lettuce, yet K5 for a nice chunk of Yellowfin Tuna, perfect for Sashimi???

pain master said:

Lunch was at my favourite restaurant with friends. Went the Tepanyaki, its a bit exxy these days but still worth it. Started with a bowl of miso, and their yummy green salad with ginger/onion dressing, followed by baby squid stuffed with beans and carrot sticks. Fried rice served (cooked at the table) and then their yummy shrimp appetiser, served flambé’d again at the table. Followed by some steak, some lobster, some fish, and prawns all cooked Tepanyaki style in front of us. Served with seasonal vegetables.

Dinetta said:

Quite the feast!

pain master said:

We then brought some goodies down stairs ready for dinner… How does this work? K22 for an iceberg lettuce, yet K5 for a nice chunk of Yellowfin Tuna, perfect for Sashimi???

I suppose one just walks to the end of the jetty and catches a Yellowfin Tuna, but the iceberg lettuce has to be cultivated and otherwise tended?

Dinetta said:

Hope it’s a good ‘un…looking forward to a debrief on the birthday menu…

You’re an Aquarian like my D. According to him Aquarians are perfect. Do you want my opinion?

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

Lunch was at my favourite restaurant with friends. Went the Tepanyaki, its a bit exxy these days but still worth it. Started with a bowl of miso, and their yummy green salad with ginger/onion dressing, followed by baby squid stuffed with beans and carrot sticks. Fried rice served (cooked at the table) and then their yummy shrimp appetiser, served flambé’d again at the table. Followed by some steak, some lobster, some fish, and prawns all cooked Tepanyaki style in front of us. Served with seasonal vegetables.

Dinetta said:

Quite the feast!

pain master said:

We then brought some goodies down stairs ready for dinner… How does this work? K22 for an iceberg lettuce, yet K5 for a nice chunk of Yellowfin Tuna, perfect for Sashimi???

I suppose one just walks to the end of the jetty and catches a Yellowfin Tuna, but the iceberg lettuce has to be cultivated and otherwise tended?

or imported?

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

Hip Hip, Hooray!

Thanks BG :)

cheese did I miss ya?

belated stuff…. ;)

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

Lunch was at my favourite restaurant with friends. Went the Tepanyaki, its a bit exxy these days but still worth it. Started with a bowl of miso, and their yummy green salad with ginger/onion dressing, followed by baby squid stuffed with beans and carrot sticks. Fried rice served (cooked at the table) and then their yummy shrimp appetiser, served flambé’d again at the table. Followed by some steak, some lobster, some fish, and prawns all cooked Tepanyaki style in front of us. Served with seasonal vegetables.

Dinetta said:

Quite the feast!

pain master said:

We then brought some goodies down stairs ready for dinner… How does this work? K22 for an iceberg lettuce, yet K5 for a nice chunk of Yellowfin Tuna, perfect for Sashimi???

I suppose one just walks to the end of the jetty and catches a Yellowfin Tuna, but the iceberg lettuce has to be cultivated and otherwise tended?

One doesn’t need to get out of the car and walk on the jetty. Often there are local lads standing on the side of the road holding a tuna for sale.

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Hope it’s a good ‘un…looking forward to a debrief on the birthday menu…

You’re an Aquarian like my D. According to him Aquarians are perfect. Do you want my opinion?

I’ve seen you pair together and I would hazard a guess that you think your D is perfect too! ;)

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

Lunch was at my favourite restaurant with friends. Went the Tepanyaki, its a bit exxy these days but still worth it. Started with a bowl of miso, and their yummy green salad with ginger/onion dressing, followed by baby squid stuffed with beans and carrot sticks. Fried rice served (cooked at the table) and then their yummy shrimp appetiser, served flambé’d again at the table. Followed by some steak, some lobster, some fish, and prawns all cooked Tepanyaki style in front of us. Served with seasonal vegetables.

pain master said:

We then brought some goodies down stairs ready for dinner… How does this work? K22 for an iceberg lettuce, yet K5 for a nice chunk of Yellowfin Tuna, perfect for Sashimi???

I suppose one just walks to the end of the jetty and catches a Yellowfin Tuna, but the iceberg lettuce has to be cultivated and otherwise tended?

or imported?

corrrect. Or at least flown down from the mountains.

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

Hip Hip, Hooray!

Thanks BG :)

cheese did I miss ya?

belated stuff…. ;)

thanks Roughy.

oh and for my birthdy, I received a copy of a book called “Drawn from Paradise” and its by some English chap named David Attenborough but it discusses and portrays Birds of Paradise as painted and drawn by artists throughout the ages, including the first ever sketch of a Bird of Paradise plume in 1522. That bird was then named by Linneaus (the guy who had to name and categorise everything) (around 1800) as Paradisea apoda… Apoda meaning without feet. As all the first specimens of Birds of Paradise that were in Europe had no wings and no feet, just a skullless head, body and plumes… in fact, back in the 16thC, they believed that the BofP never landed and they just floated high up in the sky drinking the dew from clouds and the female would lay her eggs on the back of the male and incubate them by riding his back way up in the sky… The two long wiry quills which sometimes trail behind a BofP was thought to be prehensile and occasionally when the bird wished to rest, it would hang upside down by said quills from a branch.

It is a beautiful book.

pain master said:

oh and for my birthdy, I received a copy of a book called “Drawn from Paradise” and its by some English chap named David Attenborough but it discusses and portrays Birds of Paradise as painted and drawn by artists throughout the ages, including the first ever sketch of a Bird of Paradise plume in 1522. That bird was then named by Linneaus (the guy who had to name and categorise everything) (around 1800) as Paradisea apoda… Apoda meaning without feet. As all the first specimens of Birds of Paradise that were in Europe had no wings and no feet, just a skullless head, body and plumes… in fact, back in the 16thC, they believed that the BofP never landed and they just floated high up in the sky drinking the dew from clouds and the female would lay her eggs on the back of the male and incubate them by riding his back way up in the sky… The two long wiry quills which sometimes trail behind a BofP was thought to be prehensile and occasionally when the bird wished to rest, it would hang upside down by said quills from a branch.

It is a beautiful book.

It sounds awesome. Great present.

pain master said:

One doesn’t need to get out of the car and walk on the jetty. Often there are local lads standing on the side of the road holding a tuna for sale.

A whole new meaning to “drive through” take-aways?

pain master said:

oh and for my birthdy, I received a copy of a book called “Drawn from Paradise” and its by some English chap named David Attenborough but it discusses and portrays Birds of Paradise as painted and drawn by artists throughout the ages, including the first ever sketch of a Bird of Paradise plume in 1522. That bird was then named by Linneaus (the guy who had to name and categorise everything) (around 1800) as Paradisea apoda… Apoda meaning without feet. As all the first specimens of Birds of Paradise that were in Europe had no wings and no feet, just a skullless head, body and plumes… in fact, back in the 16thC, they believed that the BofP never landed and they just floated high up in the sky drinking the dew from clouds and the female would lay her eggs on the back of the male and incubate them by riding his back way up in the sky… The two long wiry quills which sometimes trail behind a BofP was thought to be prehensile and occasionally when the bird wished to rest, it would hang upside down by said quills from a branch.

It is a beautiful book.

Fascinating…

The book sounds facinating :)

Thanks ladies, it is a lovely book.

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

I suppose one just walks to the end of the jetty and catches a Yellowfin Tuna, but the iceberg lettuce has to be cultivated and otherwise tended?

or imported?

corrrect. Or at least flown down from the mountains.

I had wondered if they farm in those mountains.

pain master said:

oh and for my birthdy, I received a copy of a book called “Drawn from Paradise” and its by some English chap named David Attenborough but it discusses and portrays Birds of Paradise as painted and drawn by artists throughout the ages, including the first ever sketch of a Bird of Paradise plume in 1522. That bird was then named by Linneaus (the guy who had to name and categorise everything) (around 1800) as Paradisea apoda… Apoda meaning without feet. As all the first specimens of Birds of Paradise that were in Europe had no wings and no feet, just a skullless head, body and plumes… in fact, back in the 16thC, they believed that the BofP never landed and they just floated high up in the sky drinking the dew from clouds and the female would lay her eggs on the back of the male and incubate them by riding his back way up in the sky… The two long wiry quills which sometimes trail behind a BofP was thought to be prehensile and occasionally when the bird wished to rest, it would hang upside down by said quills from a branch.

It is a beautiful book.

So who’s a spoilt birthday boy then?

pomolo said:

pain master said:

oh and for my birthdy, I received a copy of a book called “Drawn from Paradise” and its by some English chap named David Attenborough but it discusses and portrays Birds of Paradise as painted and drawn by artists throughout the ages, including the first ever sketch of a Bird of Paradise plume in 1522. That bird was then named by Linneaus (the guy who had to name and categorise everything) (around 1800) as Paradisea apoda… Apoda meaning without feet. As all the first specimens of Birds of Paradise that were in Europe had no wings and no feet, just a skullless head, body and plumes… in fact, back in the 16thC, they believed that the BofP never landed and they just floated high up in the sky drinking the dew from clouds and the female would lay her eggs on the back of the male and incubate them by riding his back way up in the sky… The two long wiry quills which sometimes trail behind a BofP was thought to be prehensile and occasionally when the bird wished to rest, it would hang upside down by said quills from a branch.

It is a beautiful book.

So who’s a spoilt birthday boy then?

me