London part 2: London Expo
The london expo was much like previous years, but as with LWE, it’s getting noticably cheaper — whereas a couple of years ago everyone in the queue was given a carrier bag full of free stuff (card games, DVDs, posters, magazines), this year we were allowed to pick up a tiny (8 pages of A7) short story and some flyers. And the short story sucked.
After an hour and a bit, we left to go to oriental city for food and gaming. They have a lovely system for serving many people — there’s a court about 50m square with bars all round the edge; each bar being plastered with photos of food; you tell the person what you want, and are given a ticket with a number; when the number comes up on the display above the bar, you go and pick up the food~
The food itself was lovely, although I fail at chopsticks. I was advised to go for medium spice on the basis that I was english; which was quite helpful, since it still managed to be painfully hot ;_;
October 30th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Looked at the pictures. Noted that there is an “Orientals opping centre” in London. Is that cockney ‘opping as on one leg, or cockney ‘opping as in goin’ dahn ter Kent ter do ‘opping in the ‘op-fields?