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| - so my wife and i had been around this area just the night before or so and we were looking for somewhere to catch a bite. there is this other place in the city called rol san http://www.yelp.ca/biz/rol-san-restaurant-toronto which is also chinese and has the same font in its logo. so we figured if you cant get the first sibling better to date their sister and so we walked in.
so we sat down towards the back, across from the fish tank and were given tea. now my wifes a vegetarian and i take forever to decide what i want. she was going to get a mixed vegetable dish which i could share and some vegetable fried rice, which i could also share. (my wifes so generous.) she also got a spring roll. i didnt. i didnt because i got the special of the day as an appetizer.
never before, i say, never ever before, have i been treated so attentively at a chinese restaurant before rol jui. this was almost to a fault. right when we sat down they were suggesting to me what i should get, whats really good, as if ive never eaten chinese food before. (harumph!)
well good that they pursued (only closers get coffee!!!) because they sold me a plate of one abalone. now, kudos to me, for trying it when i still had no idea what the hell it was even after i tried to get them to explain it to me several times. and kudos to them for making it taste tasty. abalone is an edible mollusk. when its one the plate, it looks like a big pig nose but without the nostrils. now before i got it, they came over and gave me a fork and A KNIFE. i thought (harumph!!) not only do they think i need a fork instead of chopsticks (whitie!!) but i look so dismal that they cracked open the box of steak knives just so i would know how to eat. well indeed, a fork and a knife was needed. without it, you can picture a scenario of two things: either i manage somehow to pick the abalone up with my chopsticks, only for it to go flying across the room to land in someones blouse or simply to drop on my lap. the other scenario is using the fork and trying to take a bite, but needing my wife to help me by pulling the back of my head away from the abalone so i could extract a bite. needless to say...it was tough and needed a steak knife from every angle. AND IT WAS GOOD.
after that i plunged into a dish of shrimp in lobster sauce. (now thats something that is better about being the only carnivore at the table. if you can manage to choose a dish that you love...THEN ITS ALL FOR YOU.)
...jeez...i sure feel bad about saying that now...food is only good when you can share it (slap on the wrist jimi).
as i write i remember that i also had an ooey gooey soup...something like chicken and fish maw soup...which i now understand after looking up "maw" in the dictionary, to mean that i had fish jaw or fish throat soup with chicken. go ahead say it. ewwwhhh.
well all that was on the table was really tasty, especially with a little of that sinister chili sauce dripped on it.
to round out the night they tried to sell us a membership card!!! 20 bucks for ten percent off for the rest of your life!!!! we opted out, but were impressed nonetheless.
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