幾鬼秘的部落格

As any of my friends and family will tell you, I am far from being qualified to critique food.  So if a restaurant is so bad that I have to rant about it, you know it’s pretty bad.

Hachitarou is a relatively new all-you-can-eat Japanese restaurant, located at the NE
corner of Hwy 7 and McCowan.  After seeing it being featured on a Chinese TV show, my family decided to go there last Sunday night for dinner.  We made a reservation for 6:30pm for 6 people.  When we arrived the restaurant was already packed, and we were offered a table that normally seats 4.  Honestly even for 4 people the table was darn small.  We were basically distributing the food as soon as they came so the waiter could take the empty dishes away ASAP.

None of the food is worth mentioning, which is not the worst part, as most all-you-can-eat Japanese restaurants are not that great anyway.  The service was extremely poor, as one can guess from them trying to cram so many people into the restaurant  At one point I had hot water (from condensed steam) drip onto my shirt as the food was being delivered.  The washroom was rundown even for a normal restaurant, let alone a new one.  As hand wash soap you’re given detergent - that’s definitely a new one.

All in all it was probably the worst dining experience I had in a long time - bad enough to make me take the time to blog about it.  But if I can just save some of you from making the same mistake, then maybe it wasn’t a completely worthless experience

Step 1 - spare, strike, strike, spare

Step 2 - gutter ball, gutter ball

Step 3 - spare, strike, spare, strike, spare, strike

As any of my team members can attest, I’m known for rolling at least one gutter ball on any given night.  But I don’t remember having rolled two of them in a roll in recent memory.  This is definitely one to remember.

So as everybody who attended my wedding banquet knows, I was extremely unprepared for the thank you speech.  So here, in no particular order, I’ll try to make it up to the people whom I (or Chris) missed in our speeches.

Andy and Eugenia, for going the extra mile.  You were the first ones at the ceremony and at the banquet.  What you’ve done was way beyond what we expected of you, especially Andy, running around the whole day and night making sure that everything went smoothly.  And of course, delaying your vacation just for us.  Hope you’re enjoying Paris.

Josephine, for organizing the surprise video montage.  That was very
thoughtful of you.  Dom and Emily, for gathering the videos.  And Matthew
(my new brother-in-law), for putting it all together.

Maverick, whom I’d thanked at the banquet, but forgot to emphasize
that he’d worked 2 long nights prior, and was getting through the day
with Tylenols

Charles, not only for being my photographer, but also for putting together my slideshow with very short notice.

Vincci, for sharing your story of my storage rental business :)  And for being the biggest contributor to winning the Q&A contest for table 10.

Jeff, Annie, Sharon, and Jimmy, for taking care of decoration and sound at the banquet.  All your hard work is behind the scene, but it’s just as appreciated.

Emily and Monica for MC’ing for us, and thinking up all those questions.  I heard that there was supposedly another game that was planned but was skipped due to time constraints.  I wish we could’ve played it.

CC for bringing us the floral arrangement to the ceremony - not the easiest job with low vase full of water.

Thank you all for making our big day a success.