I always thought that buffet means we pay a sum of money and get to eat unlimited food by choosing from the myriad of yummy-licious food displayed on the never-ending sideboard or table. But…this particular restaurant that I went with my bunch of old buddies a few weeks ago were…rather different.
Called Umai-ya, this Japanese restaurant is located in Damansara Uptown, which we had difficulty finding it (we got lost like, half an hour or more?). Oh, and we had a special guest with us…my goddaughter!
Though we arrived pretty late, the private room that we booked was still available. Thank God!

I looked left and right, left and right again for the food display but found none, which was very weird. As we were seated, the waitress handed us the menus and Lay Yan informed us that we can ORDER as many food as we want. Oh…so now I get it…there’s no food on display and we can’t get to grab as many as we want and fill our table with loads of mouth-watering food because that was the Order-As-Many-As-You-Want-And-Eat buffet. Hmm…slightly disappointed…
After we scanned through the menu and ready to order, we were greeted by a dead-pan waiter with an American accent. He was like “Uh…can I take your order?” When we asked for some explanation on what type of food A or B was, again, he answered in such a lame and lazy way till we felt like strangling him! Also, when it got too cold in the private room, we asked him to turn it down, to which his response was…a mere nod and left the sliding door open! WTF?! Oh, so that’s how you adjust the air conditioner’s temperature! Very smart, you $h1+head!
Despite our irritating encounter with Mr. Goofy, we sort of uhm…enjoyed the food, and while waiting in between for the food to arrive, we either took some photos (none of us brought digital camera, so, we used my mobile’s and Yuen Ling’s) or busy chasing the little girl around! Actually, it’s a good thing to tag along with your kid (if you don’t have one, go grab one from your married friends) the next time you go for a buffet coz’ it certainly helps in a speedy digestion process! LOL!




The best part of all was…they somehow miscalculated the number of human beings in the room and charged us for 4 adults and one child instead of six adults and one child! LOL! It was definitely worth it! (minus the thrill of having to pick our own food off the sideboard and being served by an @$$h0le). Here’s our bill…











