Sunday, May 08, 2005

HIBACH


HIBACH
Originally uploaded by JaySeaAre.
Contemplation.

For Mother's Day, we went to an all-you-can-eat buffet named "1+1" in Anderson, Indiana which offered American (Pizza, Corn on the Cob and Apple Pie) and Japanese-ish fare (Baby Octopus, Sweet & Sour Frog Legs, Sushi). Perhaps the name means American+Japanese. I thought about asking the wait staff why the restaurant was named "1+1", but both people who waited on us spoke rather fragmented English and my Japanese is non-existent, so I just let the mystery be. The name "1+1" doesn't make for a very impressive outdoor, over-the-entrance strip mall sign at the Applewood Plaza when it's competing with the likes of Target and SuperCuts, but the inside was clean and bright with a huge goldfish pond/indoor waterfall/wishing well structure thing just past the lobby and before the soft serve ice cream machine.

Concerning the man in the photo, I just kept looking at his hands and how they enveloped the ladle, dinner plate and tongs when he grasped them. Also, I saw so many people standing in a similar way, in contemplation, at the varied and interesting food options. Needless to say, the Baby Octopus and Fried Frog's Legs were most popular with young teenaged boys, like my nephew Andrew, trying to gross out their younger siblings.