April 1st, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
I really love this over-accommodating sign we saw at Sushi Bar Rashai the other night. Perhaps it’s no surprise that a restaurant that tags itself as “Delicious! Nutritious! Bit slow but friendly!” would pin something like this to its walls. The mixture of hyper-colour clip art and extreme politeness is what amuses me most: the […]
March 11th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Things I Like About Nazimi: 1. It is a cute little basement Japanese diner with miniature lamps on each table and easy-on-the-eye Eastern crockery to boot. 2. It takes care of that pesky “what to eat in the city?” dilemma.3. It’s way less greasy than the former “what to eat in the city?” front-runner (cheap […]
February 13th, 2008 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
It was a running joke that Keith, Alison, Will and I would one day go on a 50s-style double-date. You know, just like in Archie comics or on Happy Days, with us all sipping milkshakes out of heart-shaped straws and hoeing down burgers and fries between sitcom-style punchlines. With a jukebox blaring the kind of […]
November 24th, 2007 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »
I’ve had friends guiltily admit that they’ve been to Ramen Kan without me, and it’s true, it does feel like a social no-no to go there without asking every single Japanese-loving pal you have for a cheap and cheery night out. The first time we went was to the super-popular Ramen Kan in Haymarket, which […]