Thursday, February 14, 2008

St. Valentine’s Chronicles

(Okay, that’s an obscure mashup of Robert Silverberg’s sci-fi opus “The Majipoor Chronicles”).

But Valentine’s day is the loneliest night of the week
sometimes, especially if you’re without your honey. And I’m without Taishi as well.

So there’s only one remedy: Masako.

Only I was dismayed to find that the co-proprietor, Rebekah, was in China for treatment for a tumor. Her husband, the itamae-san, was stoic. “I don’t know when she’ll be back.”

They’re both angels, so it was particularly piquant to consider how far she was away from him on this particular day.

On Valentine’s night it was buzzing, at this, the place I consider to be the best sushi in Montreal, so it was especially lonely to see all the happy couples having so much fun. But I was not at a complete loss. I made a happy couple of the Eye of the Dragon and Spicy Salmon (with extra tobiko!) to go, and inhaled a couple of Hakutsurus while I waited.

So, a Montreal Valentine’s evening of a Japanese dinner made by Chinese in a French/English city watching a German movie (“Das Leben der Anderen”).

Omedeto qing ren jie félicitations Alles Liebe zum Valentine’s!

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