teppanyaki experience: once in a life time

of all events dat happened, i MUST blog abt dis, brag abt dis, complain abt dis, laugh abt dis....

it was the first time, N DEFINITELY THE ONLY N LAST TIME, dis E.V.E.N.T. happenED in my room...

guess wat???

we hd teppanyaki, in MY SMALL EN-SUITE ROOM.. yes.. room.. ( mind, not pantry.. it's R.O.O.M., ROOM, 睡房，la camera da letto, bilik tidur...)

it was the greatest risk, ever.. in the history of freshers yr @ notts..

we were using a teppanyaki cooker, roughly 30cm x 20cm... it was HUGE.. well.. bigger than wat i've expected. n u hv to c wat mike brought! i didnt manage to grab photos of wat he brought.. damn.. oh well.. nvm.. he brought like 30 tomatoes，20 carrots, one box ( standard tissue box size) of marinated mutton, one box of chicken, one box of shrimps, one box of sotong, vegetables, onions, chopped garlic n spring onion, 锅贴，teppanyaki sauce, soy sauce etc etc..N he was soooo SMART to bring along his mighty chopping board n mighty chinese chopping knife.. woooo...

OK. fine. me, suz n him went to pantry to start chopping stuff, while waiting others (rachel, jing, liyen) to come back..

mike chopped out those onions, carrots etc.. n u can feel as if the pantry is moving.. mini earth quake.. we gather all the culteries n plates dat we hv.. sadly.. mostly.. plastic tupperwares? WAT! not our fault ok? newark hall is not meant for cooking in the 1st place!

then.. cooking finally started.. mike installed the brand-new teppanyaki machine.. (well, dat's y he was sooo excited to come up to notts to try it.. er..ok..). we waited.. n waited..

"hmm.. smth's wrong.. the pan isnt hot yet.."

"er.. there is no light signal on the switch.."

"is it? but i turned to max already.."

"oh.. really? let me c........... ER MIKE.. U DIDN'T SWITCH ON THE MAIN..."

by now.. u shud now the BRILLIANT one was obviously MIKE TAN. i sweated, even though my room was freezing cold..

ok.. cookiing started.. thank god they came back.. WE NEEDED HUMAN FAN... (as how mike described poor us, sigh) thanks jing for being our chef.. n thanks all for volunteering as the human fanss.. n shud i even thank mike for motivating us to continue fanning in case the smoke triggers the fire alarm?

oh, yes, the fire alarm. i tied a plastic bag using my pink hair-tie onto the fire alarm.

the smoke was spectacular... for a second, i tot i was in a jap restaurant... but the next, i woke up n realise my tiny room has turned into a live kitchen.. where ppl r trying to cook teppanyaki, in a bbq manner... 1 and a half ppl cooking ( mike was the half.. ), 3 ppl fanning the smoke towards the window.. or somewhere away from the smoke alarm..

here r some abstract from our adventure:

a) ppl looking from my window

i think they were brits.. THEY CERTAINLY must hv smelt the strong aroma.. or rather.. hazard.. ahah.. let's just hope they didnt complain us.. it was scary man.. we quickly close the curtains.. n mike tried to use his big ass to block the guys from peeping into my room..

b）loud knocking by ah hang n ah zak

"TOK TOK TOK TOK"

the whole room went silent, while the sizzling pan continue to sizzle.

i intuitively block the teppanyaki pan from the sight of whoever dat will appear at my very doorstep... thank god.. it was just them... WE ALL TOT IT WAS THE PORTER! scary man! we were all thinking.. wat shud we do wat shud we do wat shud we do... dis is the consequence of taking illegal actions... haha..

c) food-cooking hazzard (not smoke hazzard)

i bet my whole corridor is filled with teppanyaki.. my neighbours must be really pissed.. sorry peeps.!!
well, was more worried abt porter, warden etc.. wat if they smelt it n come searching for us? thank god. we were efficient enough.. we try cooking everything asap.. so dat dis hazzard can end asap.. phew..

we finished cooking all the meat.. n half of the vege dat we prepared.. not to mention dat we only prepared less than half of wat he brought.. frankly, the food were yummy.. thx to the sauce.. n jing again! for helping out, though she didnt eat much act..

great. my room is full of teppanyaki. i smelt it in my jacket. i hv to wipe my clean face with teppanyaki-smell towel. i hv to sleep in my teppanyaki bed. haha.. actually it wasnt dat bad. maybe.. cos u r in there for such a long time dat u just cldn't smell it anymore..

YET.. IT WAS FUN. ppl must be thinking, shean is crazy..

but it was really excited u noe! i mean.. no one must hv done it b4! even if the smoke alarm went off, it wld become such a hot topic of discussion!

imagine...

senior warden: the fire alarm was triggered, by teppanyaki cooking in the room.

hhahaa..

ok..TOUCH WOOD..

phew~ thank god we r safe n sound.

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too tired to blog abt wednesday.

(to be continue...)