Bryan's 28th Birthday

Karen and I left her place at a quarter to 6 to go to Mekong Restaurant on Somerset.

We got there at 6:00 and we parked out on the street near the restaurant. Pay parking was in effect until 7:00, so I put in $1.25 in quarters, which bought us 25 minutes, and Karen put in a toonie, which bought us another 40 minutes, so we were covered.

We didn't need to be at the restaurant until 6:30, so we decided to walk down the street to Bubblicity, for bubble tea. We ordered a chocolat bubble sherbet. We intended to have it there, but upon noticing that we were running short on time, we quickly asked for it to go,
____________________________which enabled us to get to the
____________________________restaurant at exactly 6:30.

Jasmine had asked us all to be there at that time because she was going to show up with Bryan 15 minutes later under the guise that they were just going out for a quiet dinner for two. Sure enough, they showed up a precisely 6:45 and we all yelled 'Surprise!'.

We all looked at the menu and the idea of sharing dishes was discussed and discussed again. Joe put forth the notion that when it came to sharing dishes, the rule of thumb was 1.5 dishes per person. Meaning, he elaborated, that if 2 people are sharing dishes, they should
____________________________order 3 dishes, 4 people
____________________________should order 6 dishes, etc.

Bryan, Jasmine, Karen and I decided that this was far too complicated a concept for us, so we each ordered a dish for ourselves. In the meantime, the other end of the table seem to order with reckless abandon; drinks, appetizers, and main dishes which didn't seem to follow the 1 : 1.5 rule that Joe had established moment before.



I managed to finish my dish (braised duck with vegetable) with a little help from other, while Karen did a respectable job with hers (prawns with vegetables and cashews), but in the end, mostly due to some overzealous ordering on the part of certain individuals, our table
____________________________looked like a war zone, with half
____________________________finished dishes as far as the eye
____________________________could see. Needless to say, we
____________________________all took home leftovers.