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| - Our dishwasher broke the day before Thanksgiving.
Needless to say this resulted in many a restaurant dinner but despite that (thanks to Thanksgiving) an ever accumulating pile of dishes we now call "Mount Doom".
So even when the heavens poured their miserable buckets of fall water on us we dragged our butts outside to enjoy food at its finest: the kind with no dishes.
This is how we ended up here, Gado Gado, a small, simple but clean, Indonesian restaurant...that was entirely empty (and it stayed that way).
A slightly confused waiter came up to our table, handed us menus, and took our drink order: Extra spicy Caesar (as per usual) por favor!
I ended up ordering Bakpao and Laksa, while the husband unit decided on fried chicken skin and Sate.
We also got side orders of sambal, krupuk and nasi kuning (why do I have to pay for a miserable little bowl of sambal and two pieces of krupuk?...sigh).
The Bakpao was awesome, loved every bite of it, even kept one for the moping hubby across the table who didn't enjoy his chicken skin (it was fine, not great however) and he loved it as well.
My Laksa was good but not extraordinary, I ate most but got bored with it after a while.
Meanwhile the husband was poking at his food and making little soy figures on his plate, I asked him what was up and he responded something along the lines off "I don't like this, it doesn't taste like Sate at all, I can't find any peanut flavour", so I guess he didn't enjoy his meal.
I must say it did look rather sad, meat sticks, no Sate sauce, a tiny spoon of veggies and some steamed rice.
At one point slightly confused waiter man shows his face again, and I order another Caesar, this resulted in more confusion and me having to confirm it as if he never had a second drink order before, poor guy, the Caesar is pretty good too so what is all the confusion about?
*shrug*
And that was the end of our Gado Gado adventure.
The prices weren't bad, despite having to pay for the sambal and krupuk, so that's a plus.
I would come here again, but for lunch and only for the Bakpao (oh fine, and probably a Caesar, but just one), the rest was just not good enough to warrant a second visit.
Too bad, but 3 stars it is (for now).
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