Orang Kampung Pergi Ke Restoran Perancis

D - 6
So, last night (Dec 20th, 2016), we had a farewell party for the assistant professor in Pharmacology Lab who will soon move out. We had a dinner in a french restaurant: KADOTA (門田), Matsuyama.

I did not think too much about the dinner. I even knew that we would go to french restaurant when I had a lunch and I thought about eating spaghetti.

*self-note: sepageti itu restoran italia ya, Ver!*

When we arrived at the restaurant, we were welcomed by a french guy, who I thought, was surprised seeing me, a kumel lady with hijab. GR sih. Haha. But then he finally showed us the room where everybody from the lab had already been there. To my surprise: it's a french restaurant.

Look at the spoons and the forks and the knives.

Yes, it is indeed a french restaurant.

I am pretty sure that there is a strict rule about having dinner in french restaurant regarding the amount of spoons, forks, and knives. Thank God that once upon a time, my friend told me that she had a workshop on "table manner" and I still remember what she said about the workshop.

Ambil alat makan dari yang paling luar

that's it. You will be saved.

  

Wine and orange juice

That was my first time seeing a bottle of wine. Of course, I didn't drink it. I ordered orange juice instead. A bottle of wine and a bottle of orange juice in the same frame looked like a childish person jumped around a mature person. The wine was served by the french guy, and he was very clumsy. He once spilt the wine when he poured it into a glass. He was also very stiff, or nervous? I don't know. But whenever he came into the room, I became nervous as well and worried he might do something wrong again. His name is マイケル.

  

Appetiser

Sashimi, mushroom (cooked with an omelette?), daikon (大根) and other vegetables I don't know the name, fish roe, ikan teri, orange juice (the orange one), and framboise juice (the red one). To eat this, I used the rightmost knife and the leftmost fork (see the first image). The rightmost knife was a knife with a blunt side. Enough to cut the sashimi and the mushroom.

  

Another appetiser

The knife and the fork that I used before have gone and it was time to eat the next appetiser. I did not know what it was. But it should be seafood soup. Yes, it was delicious. I used the soup spoon to eat this. During this appetiser, we were served two loaves of bread but I forgot to take a picture of it. From the first image, there was another plate next to the main plate, it was for the bread. It had a butter spoon on it. We ate the bread by hand by the way. All of us.

  

Another appetiser or pre-main dish (?)

I didn't know whether it was classified as a main dish or not. It is a fish fillet covered by things like noodles in a creamy sauce. This noodles-like thing was fried corn silks. I thought that the red spherical things were unrefined pepper. It had a taste like pepper with some sweet flavour. For this, the only tablespoon and the next fork were used.

  

Main dish

The original one should be a beef steak, but since we can't eat beef here, we got fish instead. With broccoli, and a mashed potato that was surprisingly good. I used to dislike mashed potato. It was time to use the last knife and fork. The knife had a serrated side to cut the beef, or the fish.

Thanks God, I am already contaminated with other cultures so it is OK for me to have dinner without rice. "Kata orang kalau belum makan nasi namanya belum makan" doesn't suit me anymore. And I was really full that time.

  

Dessert

Strawberry, kiwi, and persimmon. Two slices of sponge cake. Pudding. Jams, I didn't know what kind of jams they were. To eat this, we used a little spoon or fork. Along with this, we also got a salad but I did not picture it.

  

Coffee

Black coffee and sugar and creamer

  

Epilogue

Overall, the table was arranged like this:

source: link.

I never thought that I would join in any formal dinner like this. Once I invited, I came lusuh-ly. Haha.. But if I realised that it would be a dinner that required a certain etiquette in the table, I probably chose to stay at home.

However, it's a good experiment, as I ever imagined that someday I will get involved in an international event somewhere <3 and I know this link to learn more about table manner. But not today. I am proud enough to be a part of kalangan menengah in Indonesia.

Note:
I did not drink wine and I did not eat any food contained meat other than fish. At least I've tried to. And I read Bismillah.

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KADOTA (門田)
http://www.kadota.co.jp

3 Chome-4-2 Sanbancho, Matsuyama, Ehime