banana split

we went to a new restaurant today because we had coupons that expired today. we ordered food first. (it's also supposedly a coffee shop, but we didn't order any coffee at all.) i ordered "cheese tomato macaroni." i think that's what it was called. whatever the name was, it made me think that it could possibly be macaroni and cheese with tomato. i knew not to hope too much though. 1: it was a translation from chinese into english. 2: i don't know if they know what macaroni and cheese is here. so it came, and it was definitely macaroni. it had cheese on top. and it had a tomato flavored sauce. it also had in it: peas, mushrooms, shrimp, squid, crab, and some other unidentifiable seafood-type thing. it was strangely good though, and i enjoyed it. not macaroni and cheese though.

then c and i decided we should also order ice cream since we came with a coupon anyway. so we ordered a banana split. the other ice cream options on the menu consisted of tri-colored ice cream, hawaiian ice cream...and those are the only ones i can remember because we didn't know what the others were (we didn't know what those two were either). we couldn't tell from the name what they were, and there was only a picture of one of them and we didn't know which one it was. so we thought banana split would be a safe one. i was hoping for some chocolate. well, it was definitely a banana. and the banana was split right down the center, longways, and there were two scoops of ice cream in between. on either side were chocolate-ish wafers, and there was a vanilla-ish wafer on the top. there was chocolate sauce un-generously drizzled over the top. underneath, there were cubes of watermelon. and the two scoops of ice cream--one was pink and one was purple. the pink one was strawberry. i hoped briefly that the purple one was grape, but it was taro. taro is a purple sweet potato. it was all very tasty. i actually like taro very much. we have it at work lunches sometimes, and it looks pretty much like this:
i've never had it as an ice cream flavor before though--it was actually quite good.

all this to say, if you think you're going to get something particular that you had in mind, you probably won't. expect an adventure instead!