Overeating – Tabesugimashita

I have Fridays off, so today my roomie told me about a great place he found – all you can eat for only 1000 yen which is about $10CDN.

The restaurant was just about 5 blocks away so three of us headed off. We found the small establishment, opened the door and were surrounded by buffet tables. The sight was something to behold but before we could lay our tongs on the grub, the kindly clerk requested the 1,000 yen per head entry fee. Understandable.

There was oden, snow crab legs, sashimi, sukiyaki, chicken teriyaki, specialty rice, veggies, soup, fried fish, salad, tomatoes, cucumbers, tofu, mochi, and tofu dessert.

I went for 2 rounds plus a final round of dessert. But the last round of dessert did me in. I couldn’t move from the table for little awhile. My two roomies seemed amused for some reason. I didn’t think it was a lot of food actually but apparently most of the items were quite heavy. Plus each time you go up, they give you rice. I guess at some point the rice just expands.

Outside I knew I was in trouble when I was moving slower than an old man with a hernia and a broken foot. It’s amazing what you can glean from context. I didn’t have to know the vocab to know they were yakking on in Japanese about whether I would “return some of the food”.

That was some meal, none of us were hungry the remainder of the day until about 9 or 10pm. I ended up making a nightcap meal of spinach, tofu, shrimp soup.