Skip to main content

The Love for Good Food

By

By Dylan Chew 

As the smell of tea and the chattering of friends filled the cozy, coffee house, I rolled my dice and moved my token forward on the knock-off version of the Monopoly board. “Yeah, I’ll join for dinner,” 

As a last-minute plan, I joined for bowling with a group of friends. We were all very excited and dressed up for warmth as it gets cold in Penang Bowl. We arrived at 5pm, but to our first of many disappointments, it was packed and we couldn’t get any lanes for bowling. 

However, we did not give up on our plan to hang out, so we decided to go to Nook, a suggestion by Yong-Yu Huang (12), a bookstore/coffee shop. We flocked around a long table and spent our time playing card and board games. I decided to join in for the fake French Monopoly, at which I did not win. 

As the clock ticked to 19:00, we headed towards a town favorite dining place, Holy Guacamole. People in the car, Josh Peek, Niko Bernhardt, Ryan Chan, Yong-Yu, Lana Brewster, and Chris Ooi (12), all were starving and craving for some good Mexican food. 

“I was not invited,“ Gabe Kontsas recently commented. 

But again we were to be disappointed since it was fully booked for the evening. In our last attempt to save the night, we lifted our heads high and crossed over the street in order to find a place that could take us in. We passed by a bougie Italian-looking restaurant and it caught our attention. I walked in and had my doubts in the food quality since they had disco balls and cat pictures all over the place but I was proven wrong. The first taste of pumpkin soup and we were in. It brought us delicious pizza and a very solid roast chicken. 

In an attempt to describe the beef pepperoni pizza, Josh said, “‘The Tavern’ is what the ‘Don Corleone Pizza’ should be.” 

In the end, “The Tavern” saved our night and brought a fulfilling ending to our day. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DINGBAT DALAT STUDENT SPENDS PRECIOUS TIME CONJURING UP SELF-REFERENTIAL SENIOR SCRIBBLE RATHER THAN GATHERING LEGITIMATE WORK

By Anonymous
Yusoof Monawvil PENANG, MA - As the deadline drew near and the stars aligned in the night sky above the majestic waters of the Strait of Malacca, one particular Dalat student—Yusoof Monawvil (12), despite a plethora of school events to select and report on—opted instead to spend a remarkably well-wasted 24 minutes staring at a blank Google Docs page, fruitlessly drawing up and shooting down brainstormed ideas.  In a moment of sheer and undeniable epiphany, Monawvil deemed it only fitting to self-referentially satirize his own ingrained incompetence and dingbattery. Commenting on the flash of insight, Monawvil quoted himself, saying: “It all just kinda made sense. I went on DISCourse to look at the little rubric thing Ms. Grad and Mr. Hieber posted, and I checked if I was following all of the guidelines... And I technically am/was; [N]ot like there’s any specific direktive [sic] prohibiting self-quoting.”  In a turn of events, Monawvil did come to find his self-quoting en...
6 comments
Read more

"Spikeball, Swimming, and Sickness: The Remnants of Senior Sneak" by Ee Rynn Ong

By
“Guys, I think we’re here,” said Jonathan Ooi (12) as he peeked out of the lorry to catch the first glimpse of our Senior Sneak location. This year’s Senior Sneak was held in Nomad Adventure, Gopeng, and the organizers planned many activities for the Class of 2026, ranging from traditional games like congkak and batu seremban to adrenaline-pumping ropes courses and whitewater rafting. These scheduled activities proved to be some of the best highlights of the trip, but top of that, the seniors were also given some daily free time to chat, explore, and relax. Josh Stevens (12) had come prepared for this with two spikeball nets, which immediately attracted attention from people eager to spend time in the outdoor sun. The next five days saw spikeball veterans and newcomers alike, spending their precious one and a half hours daily around the unassuming circular net, smashing the yellow ball in hopes of a victory.  Caleb Evans (12) was one of the newbies to spikeball, learning how the g...
Post a Comment
Read more

“I Miss Her” by Nikhil Pillay

By
While most people had a fun week for mid-semester break, whether it was spent with family, or with friends on impact trips, no one had a more emotionally confusing week than Judson Kenneth Robert Nosker (12).  In the light of recent events, Judson, despite all odds, had gotten in a relationship with one of his classmates, and as the break started, he had started to spend a lot of time with her. While with her, he started to experience a new level of joy and completeness that he had never felt before. In the words of Judson Nosker, “The first half of the break was good, but the rest of it was horrible.”  The reason for such a quote and the roller coaster of emotion was because half way through the break, disaster had struck. Judson’s girlfriend had gone on a trip with her family to Thailand, leaving Judson all alone. For the rest of the week, Judson was in a state of longing for her presence.  His friends have reported numerous occasions when Judson would be sitting with t...
Post a Comment
Read more