Some girl at the bar asked him to "do that thing with the orange" again. And he proceeded to slice up an orange really fast and spread it apart in stupendously thin slices that he made into a perfectly complex little sculpture. We were all amazed and everybody clapped and ordered more.
But, then my friend had the unmitigated audacity to request an orange and the use of the chef's own knife, which looked very professional and expensive. It was like asking to try a Samurai's sword! You could see the sort of disgruntlement on the chef's face, but he handed over an orange and his knife to my buddy anyway so as not to be rude or to spoil the fun. And my friend promptly began earnestly carving something intricate in the skin of the fruit. But he looked really lame and I started to feel self-conscious to be there with him.
Well, it took him a few minutes and you could tell everybody was starting to feel embarassed and uncomfortable and I could see that the chef was sort of frowning - after all, we had ruined his little orange moment. But pretty soon, my friend started peeling and then produced this!
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Except that my friend's orange-peel man was much better! He was was not only anatomically correct, but quite marvelously equipped because the pith was pulled out of the center of the orange just on the right spot on his little orange body.
Well, that just destroyed the place and we got a whole bunch of sushi for free from the people sitting around us and the chef was filling up our saki glasses with his own incredibly powerful liquor which sort of reminded my of nail polish remover (it was so strong).
It was great.
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