my money is flying away nooo!!!

After the disastrous stint at the barbers...poor hapless boy then proceeded to his cell dinner which was unfortunately at marche(yay his first time!). In a lame ass attempt to cover up what was obviously a bad hair cut...poor hapless boy had no choice to spike his hair...the impact of which rippled through the local exchange stock markets and initiated a flurry of activity on what was otherwise a dull lifeless evening(haha)...aniwae marche being not what he expected it to be poor hapless boy was pleasantly surprised(and shall henceforth be known as poor haplessly pleasantly surprised boy). Unfortunately what was not surprising was the prices...which in reality far exceeded that of which he had been warned of...

For the benefit of those of us who are still living in nuclear bomb shelters, wearing bell-bottoms, listening to ABBA or anything at all that would be otherwise remotely unimaginable to any hip ipod wearing youngster(aka u are still stuck in a time where your parents were still horny)...marche has specific counters set up around the restaurant...(ie.want some grossly overpriced deserts go to the left hand corner) where u order your food, get your card scanned and then proceed to the table where u wait for your food to be prepared and go and collect it(in other words...SELF-SERVICE). Then u pay at the end of the meal.

As expected food was less than outstanding...PHB ordered teppanyaki while the rest ordered either pizza or pasta...PHB sincerely regrets his decision. On hindsight however i doubt that anything else he chose would be much better...for the price of that pasta one could go pastamania and order one of those oven baked thingies (which would taste infinitesimally better)...and as for that pizza i could make that at home(actually i do make pizza quite freq). yeah there were other better smelling things...but for under 12 dollars those 3 were the only ones that gave u a full meal. About the only thing that PHB approves of is the rosti-which could be defined as thus: Light potato strips burned to a crisp. And seeing as to how this dish actually rewards overcooking stuff i dun see how they could have messed it up lol...

Actually it wasn't that bad actually...considering all the ex places that PHB has been too..marche was the only one where it was worth paying for the ambience....and the only one where u could pretend u were on a skiing trip in the scottish/german hillside....this needs to be seen to be believed (and seen it shall be..as soon as i get a pic of it)

[konno is off chasing butterflies...ginji is off chasing girls...and banchan is currently doing talk shows on the US circuit and promoting his latest album...and expects to be back only next month.In the meantime PHB is here holding the fort...god save the queen ;) ]