Venture to Australia: Karen's Birthday

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Karen's Birthday

Thursday was my friend Karen's 24th birthday so in celebration a bunch of us decided to take her out for dinner on Friday night. We decided to go out to Ahmets, a Turkish restaurant down at Southbank (near downtown Brisbane).

That's a licensed Turkish restaurant, as in licensed to sell alcohol. Not licensed by some Turkish council back in Turkey to sell Turkish food. :D

There were about 15 of us that went, all but 3 live at ISV. That's practically the entire population of ISV went, so things were pretty quiet around there. We took up the whole front half of the bus getting to Southbank too!

While we were waiting for our food we got to enjoy some of the live entertainment that is special to this particular restaurant on the Southbank strip of restaurants; live bellydancing (2MB - Requires DivX). Some of the girls were even adventurous enough to try it out (3.1MB - Requires DivX)!

The food was pretty good, I shared an appetizer plate of hommus with Patrick and ordered something called Iskender which was shredded chicken (or you could get lamb) served over Turkish bread with a yogurt sauce.

Among some of the other dishes that people ordered were various kababs (or as Chantal would call them, "Chicken on a Stick!"), and falafals. Mark ordered their specialty diet dish...

Just kidding! The lemons were for Chantal's chicken dish. For dessert Karen got a special treat of chocolate ice cream and baklava shaped in the form of a star.