The Groove is Back in 1-Utama: On Sushi!

As a post-exam celebration for Carmen, we went to 1-Utama and decided to eat something "adventurous". Now, now, before you start thinking of Fear Factor-ish live cockroaches and bull's testicles or something, bear in mind that we are suburban youths who do not leave the house after dark.

Ha, ha, ha.

Kidding lah. But anyway, we went to that fairly new restaurant called "Sushi Groove". And I gotta say, it's such a cool place! It's like a newer concept than the usual conveyor-belt sushi plates, which frankly I'm not such a fan of, 'coz everything's so expensive and before you know it, you've picked all the prettiest sushi and simultaneously burned a hole in your wallet. :(

But here, you order things off a menu and 98% of the dishes are below RM10. There were also a couple of "communal tables" in the restaurant, so if you want, you can sit with total strangers and chat with them. Hahahaha.

Suffice to say those tables were all empty.

But I have to commend them on their new ideas, yeah! :) I've heard about those communal-type restaurants overseas before, usually in Western countries, where you can have dinner with total strangers and make new friends, but here - maybe Malaysians are not so used to that idea yet. :P Give us time, give us time!

Sushi Groove had something else to offer, besides refreshing new ideas:

M O C K T A I L S !

They also serve cocktails, wine, beer, soft drinks, the works... but mocktails are the best! :) Non-alcoholic cocktails. Hahaha. Besides, the actual cocktails were, like, more than RM15. Our moctails probably only added up to RM15.

And F O O D , G L O R I O U S F O O D !

Heheee. Delicious! :) We had the Flying Geisha, Takoyaki Croquette, Golden Gate and Mayonnaise Dream Rolls.

My favourite. :)

This was described in the menu as octopus and beef filling, but we only tasted flour and yam/potatoes. Haha. Kids will like this, but not the best dish to order.

Raw fish sushi: salmon and tuna. Delicious! :) And this is a lot coming from me, because I've never eaten raw fish before. There are also other types of sushi in the menu, like cod fish sushi, which I didn't order - but you could try it. Let me know how it goes! :P

Verrrry nice. Very dreamy. Hahaha. The topping was warm, so the whole thing just melts in a savoury swirl in your mouth. Makes my mouth water just remembering it, haha.

Moral of the story: Sushi Groove is a restaurant I would highly recommend to anyone looking for a fresh Japanese experience. :)

Besides eating (always an activity for outings such as this, haha), we went shopping! Well, actually, we went window-shopping - but it was fun to try on clothes (we bought a couple - although, unfortunately, the JUSCO sale has ended and all the prices are jacked up again so we explored the other sales in other stores).

Then, before going home, we decided to conduct a social experiment to count how many people will stare if you take out your camera and start taking photos of yourself in a public place:

Haha, only joking. We really just wanted to take photos to kill time.

Ooh, and we bumped into Nirumala! She's an old friend of mine from primary and secondary school, and Carmen's classmate in upper secondary. :)

And the last thing I wanted to blog about (this will sound really stupid to anyone other than me, so you can just stop reading here - but I guess now that I've said that, you'll feel even more curious and want to read on): I finally found a cap that was within my budget in The Reject Shop! :D

I'm not sure if it's called "Reject Shop" or "The Reject Shop" or just "Reject", but you know which place I mean. All the other caps I see around are ridiculously pricey, between RM50 - RM100, and that's like - why, why, why on earth would anyone spend that much on a cap? But obviously, people do, and that's why those things sell like hot cakes.

But those are hot cakes that I refuse to afford, haha. So this, this I got for RM19.90 -- which is already pushing it! But I like it. :)

This is what it looks like:

Unluckily, the real world is not a snowflake fantasy land, so here's a dose of a classic bubble-burster:

I returned home all pleased with my "moneysaver" purchase, only to have Mum remark that it looks like a Chinaman's cap. :( Apparently the top is flat and not round, or something like that. It's torridly frustrating when I have no idea why something is bad. I wonder if anyone else understands what I mean.

And An Nie goes on to say it makes my head look big. But at least, to that, I have a ready answer: "My head is PROPORTIONATE to my body size".

Don't you just hate it when people don't tell you what you want to hear? Ha, ha, ha.

But now that I've received every possible criticism about the cap - "you look like a construction worker, etc" - I am now more or less immune to disses re my precious new acquisition.

But if you see me wearing it and you insist on making a negative comment ...

I will still be able to take it off my head and smack you with it! :(

Ho-hum. I really shouldn't let it bother me that my family and friends think the cap is shitty. I mean, I only need to wear it when I'm forced to be in the sun! And when you're in the sun, everybody's eyes will be all squinty to keep the sun out of their eyes, so nobody can see my cap clearly anymore.

So, really, I could have gotten a cap with green flamingoes on it and nobody would notice. I just wanted to get a cap (I've never bought a cap before, so I'm allowed to buy ONE, right?) because I'm tired of the company-logo caps around the house, although I still might wear the "Rock Hard Cafe" one. :) And hey, it turns out there really is such a restaurant in Phomn Penh! The "Rock Hard Cafe". It's supposedly really famous, too!

That's all for now. Good luck to those of you having exams, like Vanessa and An Nie! :)

PS: If you'd like to try Takoyaki (octopus, etc), there's a shop in 1-Utama that sells 3 balls for RM4.30 - cheaper than at Sushi Groove. I didn't try it, but Carmen loves it. My mum says it's just okay. So anyway, if you want to give it a try: it's this shop called "Tako" at the JUSCO supermarket place, where all the food is. :)