i need to blog about convocation, but i’m lazy and instead i would like to take this opportunity to complain about this restaurant i went to yesterday.

wasabi bistro is a japanese restaurant in seattle’s posh belltown area. my friends heard that it was good, and it does say “city’s best” on the previous link, so it seemed like a good bet to check it out. while the place did have good decor and the presentation of the sushi was probably the best i’ve seen, it didn’t seem as much a japanese restaurant as a yuppie restaurant in japanese style.

first off, they had a small menu. i think the menu at memories in toronto is pretty small, but this place is even smaller. you pretty much had to order sushi or you had a choice of like 5 entrees (i.e. western style presented, not bento boxes). if you wanted miso soup, well there’s another $3 on your bill. also, none of the waitresses were japanese, they weren’t even asian! but these are really petty complaints considering when you goto a place like this, you’re not looking for a family run japanese restaurant.

anyways, so the twelve of us there ended up having a variety of things off the limited menu. some of us shared some rolls, some ordered entrees for themselves. some had desert, some had sake. of course when the bill came, the waitressess decided to put everything on the same bill. we had kindly asked her to split the bill into separate cheques or even the bill into 2 tables so the accounting would be easier, but no; she let us sort everything out by ourselves over the next hour. good thing we had a calculator too.

finally, when we had the bill separated and paid for (wow $420USD omg), it took another half an hour for the waitress to enter our cash/cards in. the irony is that when the people who paid by credit received their bills, it had their individual orders on it.

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