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Last sunday, my friend and I decided to have steamboat for dinner. It was Mother’s Day then, so the place was flooded with family groups. So you just imagine the two of us sitting “around” a big table, able to expand our arms as far as we like, while other customers had to squeeze themselves into their small round table.

As we helped ourselves sitting down, I had this feeling that everyone around was staring coldly at us. They must be thinking, “Where is their mother?”… or ” aren’t they supposed to be celebrating with their mom? Why are they here at all?!”

I talked to myself, “Oh no no no… I’m just being too sensitive. Who would pay so much attention on us?” It took quite some time for the waiter to attend to us. Was it because there were only two of us? Or was it because the table still remained messy and they thought we already had dinner? Arghh…whatever…

Everything was fine except for the tomyam soup that tasted untomyamly. Luckily there was the frying wok around the steamboat pan to make my RM19 worthwhile.

We enjoyed our dinner happily. But when we were done and my friend tried to turn off the gas pipe, something bad happened. We thought we’ve switched off the gas but there were smoke coming out from the pan. Then we saw FIRE!! The pan was burning. OMG, who would ever expect a banana leaf to cause such trouble.

The boss came at once. He mixed dry vegetables with banana leaves to put out the fire. He fought the fire bravely, and he put some watermelon’s skin on the pan as his final strike. The fire was dead.

Its my first time seeing someone being so creative in fire fighting. BANANA LEAF! not water, not anything else.

Everyone eyed us again. Embarrassing! “Nei dei sek tai chow arh, ha….?” the boss still had the mood to make fun of us.

When we were paying the bill..

Suk : Boss, Mai Dan!

Boss : Your table is which one?

Suk : it is tabl…….

Boss snapped : OH!!! I know I know! The table on fire!

Suk : @%#&$*$^@#%!@#^&*$&…..

How I wished I could dig a hole at that moment to hide my face. Steamboat on fire! Sounds rediculous right? You guys should try it next time!

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