Dinner with Ochi san and his family

Last night (Saturday night) Ochi san brought us for dinner......Indian food. It was a great evening, we enjoyed it a lot.

Ochi san, wife (Waekana san) and mother in law (can’t remembered her name) were open minded peoples...especially (mother in law)....will explain about it further...

The dining table was Japanese style type, low leg table and floor seating. Very weird for having Indian meal, but anyway that’s the Japanese culture. Then, on the table....of course there’s spoon and fork prepared, nothing surprising....but here’s the joke......Chopsticks!!! Yeah....chopsticks for Indian food.....I was laughing out loud by my self.......

Here’s what we had for dinner...Nan, 2 types 1 ordinary and another with cheese, Tandoori Chicken, Salad (looks like English style salad), Biryani rice, and curry. Here’s the interesting story for the curry...

Curry is served individually, so everyone has to pick their own order, there’s quite a variety of choices....can’t remember all, but here’s the most interesting part.....the curry level of spiciness can be selected from the range of 1 to 10.....can you imagine that??? You can select which level of spiciness according to which level you can stand.

The Japanese can’t really take spicy food, I only remembered Ochi san order for level 4, his wife and mother in law somewhere there. Guess what level did I ordered? 10....yeah 10 and the spiciness didn’t come close to my mom’s sambal, it barely scratch my tongue.....lol

Now here comes the part where I said Ochi san mother in law is very open minded....out of curiosity she tried those curry that was the spiciest...she went round the table trying out each and everyone of our curry......we were all surprise, cause what we learned in Japanese Culture Class prior to Japan Industrial Training, that Japanese don’t share their food....Hey, this was great you know...we didn’t feel tense as if we had to follow the Japanese culture during dining.

The other best part during dinner was the way we had our Nan.....I thought Ochi san and his family will eat their Nan with spoon and fork, couldn’t be chopsticks would it??? But they had it with hands.....Yeah!!! Another warm feeling, put a way the way we sit and dine and the chopsticks, it is as if we were really in Malaysia.....Dinner was really fun......And the best part was......I share the same birthday with Ochi san......31st of August......yeah!!!

Here’s the picture after our dinner....