Social food
Feb. 5th, 2010 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI went and ate a meal with some people from the NSFG.
We went to the Thai Dragon in Norwich and had the all you can eat buffet.
See I look at that and think "£12.99? Hmmm. Am I really going to eat that much?" and end up eating a starter and being happy with that.
But today everyone was all eating all everything. First there were big plates of starters (I liked the triangles) with the vegetarians at one end of the table (me and A and new person Chris) and the meat eaters at the other, and then there was main course, and then there was main course, and then there was main course, and then there was main course, and then there was dessert. And some people were looking at another round of dessert but we had by then been eating for about three hours and I'd got the background music memorised (quite against my will) and someone else's pain meds were wearing off and so we stopped for the night.
That was a lot of eating.
I had starters and main course (three different sorts of vegetable and sauce, all of them probably nice, but when I try new things I think 'hmmm, new' and it takes a while to form other opinions), and then I had starter triangles again because I liked them best. They were crunchy on the outside and squooshy in the middle.
Also there was talking. I said some random things. Talking with no topic is harder. Talking with no topic and a full Thai restaurant and the music and the bar and the bubbles from the decorative plastic fish in tubes and the doors and the cooking and all is, well, harder a bunch.
But it was fun.
Also I know for sure which weeks are NSFG at the Ribs of Beef pub now, so I can turn up again. Probably. If I stay in Norwich after class.
So that will be fun.
:-)
We went to the Thai Dragon in Norwich and had the all you can eat buffet.
See I look at that and think "£12.99? Hmmm. Am I really going to eat that much?" and end up eating a starter and being happy with that.
But today everyone was all eating all everything. First there were big plates of starters (I liked the triangles) with the vegetarians at one end of the table (me and A and new person Chris) and the meat eaters at the other, and then there was main course, and then there was main course, and then there was main course, and then there was main course, and then there was dessert. And some people were looking at another round of dessert but we had by then been eating for about three hours and I'd got the background music memorised (quite against my will) and someone else's pain meds were wearing off and so we stopped for the night.
That was a lot of eating.
I had starters and main course (three different sorts of vegetable and sauce, all of them probably nice, but when I try new things I think 'hmmm, new' and it takes a while to form other opinions), and then I had starter triangles again because I liked them best. They were crunchy on the outside and squooshy in the middle.
Also there was talking. I said some random things. Talking with no topic is harder. Talking with no topic and a full Thai restaurant and the music and the bar and the bubbles from the decorative plastic fish in tubes and the doors and the cooking and all is, well, harder a bunch.
But it was fun.
Also I know for sure which weeks are NSFG at the Ribs of Beef pub now, so I can turn up again. Probably. If I stay in Norwich after class.
So that will be fun.
:-)