Sushi King RM2 Bonanza

It's Sushi King RM2 Bonanza time again - April 12th -15th 2010 (in Peninsular Malaysia - it's April 19th - 22nd in East Malaysia).

Ok, so there's usually nothing much to shout about Sushi King's sushi. But since I am a cheapo, ha ha  RM2 per plate for sushi that are normally priced at RM4 - RM6 seems like a good deal, I immediately agreed to tag along when Kit invited her friends on Google Buzz. The bonanza is only for Sushi King cardmembers, and each cardmember may bring up to 4 friends along. At first Kit thought of having sushi for lunch on Friday but since the bonanza period ended on Thursday and her heartsister found it a bit difficult to go on Wednesday, we met after work yesterday.

Rin was the one who queued up first, although I believed I'd arrived earlier - because I had to go and get some calamine lotion as well as prescribed stuff (cetrizine) at the pharmacy for Humaidi and Haniyya - both are having chicken pox now, poor kids. And yes, it must be hard on them, all those discomfort, itching and hindered from scratching  causing Ibu as well to lose sleep at night, so please don't mind my puffy eyes and eye bags

It started with Huzaifah's extra itching after we came back from Bagan Lalang - brought him to see a doctor on Monday and was told that it was break-outs of his eczema. But upon closer inspection we later realised that it was chicken pox, so we stopped sending him to his kindie. Mak and Ayah came to Putrajaya to attend my cousin Imad & Atie's "kenduri sambut menantu" on Sunday, and returned to Kampung Tunku, taking Huzaifah with them. Huzaifah's condition is most severe - made worse by his eczema, I supposed. Staying with his Tok Ayah and Embah means he will get exclusive attention compared to being at home, so maybe it'll be easier to cater to his extra need and demand for attention during these few weeks.

Okay, back to sushi.

Kit warned us that since she did not had any lunch, she was going to make the most out of the 1 hour limit we had. As soon as we were seated - even before the hot ocha (green tea) and gari (pickled ginger) arrived - Kit started enthusiastically lifting plates after plates of sushi from the kaiten belt. Since I too was seated next to the kaiten belt, I merrily joined in the fun of lifting plates after plates of sushi too and had to return some, untouched, of course . Mind you - not all plates are priced at RM2 - temaki (like california roll), tsumami (like chuka iidako & chuka kurage) and maki zushi by order are still sold at normal price. Still, it was good to have the otherwise pricier stuff like unagi and ebi furai sushi at RM2 per plate.

The girl behind the counter had to accomodate our requests again and again each time a new dish arrived at the preparation counter, "bak sini satu dulu dik". Turned out it had been Kit's second trip to Sushi King in Alamanda during this Bonanza period, and knowing her, it might not be her last, ha ha since she just went there on Monday with her officemates. And she's a regular at this outlet because Syidah, a staff there admitted that Kit is a familiar face. So there - not only Kit a recognized patron of BookXcess, she's a known patron of Sushi King in Alamanda too. Made ones wonder, if the management knew she blogs, would they treat her extra nicely?

Kit with the staff who recognized her as "customer biasa" at Sushi King Alamanda

All of us had a lot of sushi - and gari. Kit swore that I was only there to have the gari, ha ha - I'm a self-confessed pickled ginger junkie. Kit thought that she and I would have more plates, but even Rin, who has just started eating sushi recently  never mind that due to her aversion to seafood, she mostly had tuna,which normally cost RM3 a plate ate as much as yours truly - 9 plates each. Kit topped us by just a mere plate, 10. Total - 28 plates for 3 pax. Yeah, I know - there my diet went off the kaiten belt...

 Ama ebi, surimi hotate, furai ebi, tori kara age , chuka ika sanzai

This stack is only half of what we had - the first half had already been taken away earlier on

Now, I just have to do extra work-outs to accomodate the 'extra' that I had. (Not to mention the 2 plates of delicious nasi beriani during Imad's kenduri, huhuhu...) Thanks a lot dearest Kit and Rin for a laughter-filled evening - and you take good care, okay!