3:24AM
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Finally I pulled the menu together and tried a few items last night on the gang. One of the items on the exotic menu is Pan Roasted Quail on Wasabi pasta with soba sauce. Since Tony made such wonderful pasta last time at the restaurant, I asked Tony to help me make the pasta. He's so nice to also trying to get off early to get to the restaurant by 5PM to help me on Valentine's day, he told me he'll have to sleep early the night before in order to leave and go to work at 4:30AM.
He tried his 1st batch of pasta at the restaurant, and it tasted quite good. We were then trying to figure out when could we make the rest of them? We decided to make it in his house, otherwise it'd be too risky to make it after his work day.
We added quite a bit of wasabi powder into the flour to make the pasta. During the whole process, we both cried and cried for our nose! That's right, it's the wasabi! I'll be honest that at one point while Tony was working on the pasta, I was working on the computer, finalizing the menu and then... I fell asleep. I didn't think he knew about that and must have thought I was working so hard like him!
It was already 1AM when Tony was kneading the dough, and it's a lot of them! By the time we started cutting the rolled out pasta sheet, it's already closed to 3AM. I felt really bad but also very appreciative to Tony's help. However the poor guy wouldn't be able to have any rest before driving to work. To keep himself stay awake, he started singing, and talking... "Okay, half an hour, we'll finish it in half an hour by 3:30AM, then I can still have an hour sleep!"; "AAAAAHHHHH.....it's killing me! The wasabi!"; then more singing, and then more "The wasabi! Is killing me!"
The next thing we found ourselves started singing... (from the tunes of "Killing me softly with his song"): Dah dah dah dah(we couldn't quite put the words together at the beginning).... killing me softly, wasabi, killing me softly...wasabi! Dah dah dah....
We looked at the clock and it's 3:24AM! What was Cynthia and Tony doing at 3:24AM on Valentine's Day 2006? Cutting pasta and singing "Killing me softly wasabi!"
And why am I blogging at 6AM? I better get back to bed and get couple more hours sleep!