Rounding out what felt like an endless continuous sequence of eating out (odd since I’m kinda of broke right now being that I haven’t gotten paid since July, otherwise known as 6 months ago), I met up with an old classmate for dinner at this place. It’s an Asian Pub that has a lot of Asian inspired and Asian fusion dishes. The décor was nice, with a lot of, wait for it, Asian influences. And I don’t mean bamboo screens or anything like that. Ingredients, such as giant cans of hoisin sauce were used as decorating elements. Sweet. I walked in, my usual late self and my friend was already seated, menus on the table. On the table were two glasses of water and also two mini shot glasses holding an orange liquid. They were mango-sake cocktail samples, courtesy of the house. A pretty nice touch, and quite delicious. Good way to kick off the evening. With this restaurant, you have two options. Their “prix fixe” menu, or a la carte. The prix fixe menu ran $20 for an appetizer, main and dessert. Sounded like a pretty good deal, so that’s what we went with. I got the green machine salad (a cucumber salad with a rice vinegar soy), and the special of the day, which was a tamarind spicy shrimp rice noodle dish. The portions were great (the salad I got was practically a meal size), and I got more than enough shrimp and noodles. Everything was tasty and colourful, and I liked the nice touch of adding a condiment platter with a mix of garlic oil, chili oil, soy, and tamarind and sugar liquid. The best part was the dessert. On the waitress’ suggestion, I got the Kubo Flaky, which is a layered dessert comprising phyllo, berries, cream in varying layers, all drowned in a passion fruit essence. Simply divine. My friend ordered the daily special salad -- a watercress and inari salad plus the Chinese five spices chicken for a main. For dessert she got the Crispy Lucky dumpings which tasted quite good. Crispy Lucky dumplings are these banana and chocolate wontons served with caramel sauce and coconut ice cream. Niiiice. Very niiice. The waitress was friendly and attentive, and kept our water glasses full throughout the evening. I’d go back.