Kimpura

Had a trip down memory lane over lunch last Friday with Kong and Gwammy, as we went to Greenhills to eat in Kimpura Restaurant.  This Japanese restaurant has been around since 1970, and opened alongside Unimart when Ortigas & Co. inaugurated the Greenhills Commercial Center.  Kong and his golf buddies used to eat in this restaurant every Saturday lunch for several years from the late 80s to the early 90s, and true to form, their then regular food attendant, Larry, was also around when we went there last Friday, and he recognized Kong and made us welcome.  Their group was such a regular customer that the cashier of the restaurant already kept  copies of their senior citizen ID cards, and the computations of their 20% discount would become an automatic thing.  For starters we had miso soup, while Gwammy ordered some California Maki.  We then had chicken & prawn teppanyaki, and with it, two kinds of fried rice.  Just enough to be full without being stuffed, all for an average of P350 per head (Kong has this theory that if you know how to order well in Japanese restaurants, you can eat well without paying overboard).  We were made to understand that the restaurant has other branches in both Greenbelt Makati and Tri-noma in Quezon City, and we probably will visit these locations sometime in the near future.