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Sun, 23 Apr 2006
[12:46] The Return Of Jason
Jason is back in the country and to celebrate his return he came down to London for an evening of fun and frivolity. I had to work during the day so he went out to Ikea with Shona ('cause he's got a car) and they went shopping. I also snuck out at lunchtime and bought my unicycle (yay!). I got pulled over by the cops when I left, about a kilometer from work, asking for proof that I'd bought my unicycle and, once I produced the receipt, querying why I was carrying it like a dickhead (I had the wheel balanced on my handlebars and the seat resting on my shoulder). I assured it that in future I would be riding the thing rather than transporting it and he was happy enough to let me go.
When I got home there was some Ikea construction work in progress and I was rather impressed with one of the tools included in the chair kit. The tool was, of course, the ubiquitous allen key, but with a twist:
Jason took us out to a joint called the Blue Elephant for dinner (no relation to the old Indo-Lankan Blue Elephant back in Canberra). I have to admit that the restaurant was pretty damned good, expensive, but you get what you pay for! The joint is set up like a stereo-typical Indonesian jungle restaurant, there's greenery everywhere, a stream sporting both fish and a boat, a bridge over the river to the other half of the dining area and sarong clad serving staff are always right behind you, obsequiously polite. I had a coconut juice (basically a coconut with the top cut off and a straw in it) and Chiang Rai (very spicy stir fried pork with chillies, garlic and green peppercorns). I think the "very spicy" had been watered down to English tastes but despite that the food tasted great! I've never eaten what I assume were fresh peppercorns before, only the dried ones that we use to create "pepper". These are great and come in little bunches like grapes - see if you can find them because they'd make an excellent addition to a stew or salad. We proceeded to a "German" bar where we had about a litre of beer in a largish glass and some wurst before the long trip home on the tube. I also stopped of for chips at the Waterloo Kebab and Burger House because you've got to really!
[Posted at 23/04/2006 20:46]
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