Obsessed with Wasabi

I’m absolutely obsessed with Wasabi at the moment. Wasabi has recently seen an explosion of the chain all around London. It offers freshly made sushi as well as hot food at a reasonable price. Granted the quality of the ingredients are unlikely to be same as you’d get in a restaurant like, say Nobu, but for what they’re offering and the convenience of what they’re offering – its not too bad at all.

Theatreland Walking Tour

As part of the Get Into London Theatre promotion they were running a free (shortened) version of what is normally a paying walking tour through the theatre district of the West End. Led by a Blue Badge guide (theatre expert Diane Burstein) I was expecting something pretty good and although I knew that we weren’t going to be backstage anywhere I still thought we’d at least hear some juicy gossip.

The walk, in all honesty, wasn’t the most thrilling of walks however we did hear some history of some pretty important monuments, such as the Charlie Chaplin statue, and theatres, such as the Coliseum and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where I’m going to see Oliver! in a few days time.

At least the day was a lovely day for a stroll.

I’m sure that all the information we heard today is available somewhere but hearing it in person makes it so much more compelling. Actually the most interesting part of the walk was watching the sign-interpreter do his magic for the deaf people on our tour. He was amazing!

Pearl Liang

Yum cha dishes are generally served with three dishes per dish so Sandra had the bright idea that Pat should join us for lunch today at Pearl Liang so we could order a wider variety of dishes. Although this did work out logistically we somehow still ended up eating way more than we normally would so nearly rolled out of the restaurant!

Pearl Liang is supposed to be one of the better yum cha restaurants in London and in times past when I’ve visited they’ve normally delivered. On today’s visit, though the food was reasonably of good quality though not as good as I remembered it to be, the service was absolutely horrid. The restaurant was busy (so if you want to come always make sure to book) but that was no excuse for the lack of service that we got. For a start the restaurant didn’t have enough menus to even give one menu per person and secondly we could hardly get the attention of any wait staff to get our orders in. It was very disappointing.