Mushrooms, Belly Buttons and Men

I was at the local market and bought a variety of fresh mushrooms - button, abalone, golden needle, shiitake and bunashimeji mushrooms. They are great when freshly sliced/diced in salads or as appetizers when marinated in olive oil with a dash of salt, pepper and balsamic vinegar. The dainty button mushroom set off a chain of "culinary" thoughts that stopped dead at "belly buttons" :-)

Huh? :-O Belly buttons?

That was when I saw the young cute stall assistant stretched up to reach the top shelf for a bottle of chilli sauce, lifting his t-shirt and thus flashed his smooth belly with a cute belly button at me!

Oh, for a bite of that!

That got me thinking ....

What is it about the male belly button that is so sexy or erotic to many gay men that whole discussion groups and websites have been dedicated to it?


Admittedly, on the right body, when a fully/partially clothed hunk or twink allows us a quick glimpse or flash display in public of the belly button just above the forbidden zone - it does bring various elements of eroticism and sexual thrills to the "voyuers" :-)

After all, the belly button is among the last thing one sees when the pant comes off to reveal the grand prize that one is looking for! It is like the tasty and dainty marinated button mushroom appetizer before the main course of a prime steak :-)

Of course, some great appetizers led to the most disappointing main courses - but that is the problem with a set meal. You get the lot - lock, stock and barrel!

So it is with men.

Sometimes, one gets to see this gorgeous belly button on a gorgeous male which does not give us any indication as to what comprises the whole set meal.












The only thing to do is to take all of him first and then pray hard that the hoped-for tube steak is a prime tube-steak and not just a chilli padi :-).

Of course, we can go a la carte for our food - maybe one day, we can also do a a la carte for our men :-) Until then, let's be grateful that we still get our men - even if they are not perfect!

As they say, the way to a man's heart (and belly button and tubesteak) is though his belly and I believe my mushroom salads and marinated mushrooms appetizers should get me at least his belly button or his prime tube-steak, if not his heart :-)

Rare ....

Was in downtown KL yesterday for a meeting and since I was there, went to look for DVDs. Most mainstream films and TV series on DVDs are easily available but gay/lesbian movies and TV serials are pretty rare in almost all video outlets in Malaysia.

There is, however, one shop (I believe it is a gay-owned biz) that does carry lots of G/L movies (not talking of porn!). Many of the G&L titles carried by Wolfe, Amazon, Strand Releasing, etc are available there .... it is a true blessing as otherwise we will never get to see all the alternative movies we read about.

So after collecting my loot of gay DVDs, it was just a short walk to JOGOYA at STARHILL where I arranged to meet HIM for dinner. HIM had not been there before but I had for a couple of biz dinners with my clients.

According to the blurb, Jogoya KL is :

"Japanese buffet at its most extravagant, with the freshest of seafood, tempura, sashimi and even cooked-on-demand fare brought straight to your table. At a reasonable buffet price the atmosphere is casual, relaxed and elegant.

K.L Jogoya, with its 580 seating. Chiang's vision for his restaurant chain to provide value-for money Japanese cuisine in an elegant setting. It may be buffet style he is offering but because the setting is upmarket and the food is abundant, fresh and quality stuff. "

Jogoya is a Taiwanese chain and it does live up to its blurb for fresh food and at very reasonable prices which is rare! Dinner is RM88++ pax and you can eat and drink as much as you want from 530 pm to 930 pm :-) So gorge yourselves there!

HIM and I met on the Fiesta Floor at the small seating area outside the restuarant. By 630 pm the place was pretty crowded and - and we headed straight for the fresh oysters, boiled crabs & prawns and fresh salmons and ...... :-P

Suffice to say there was a huge variety of food (raw/cooked) and drinks and I am not about to list out the food items we ate :-).

We left about 9 pm and walked back to the car - and on the way got accosted by a variety of men and women offering various "horse-killing-chicken" services ..... :-). I did try to hold hands with HIM during the short walk but HIM was too shy to let me hang on :-)

Back at home, we saw that our area got hit by a not-so-rare thunderstorm, our house alarm was beeping ...... and our flowers got battened down by the heavy rain ... and a whole lot of unripe mangoes were scatterred over the garden. Luckily, all the mangoes may not be wasted - can still make pickles or Thai mango kerabu.

Sigh, a lot more work needs to be done in the garden at the weekend.

Another day .... but before the end of the evening, HIM worked extra hard :-) to make up for not holding hands with me earlier!

Day Dreams & More

I just started this new blog - and all I can think of right now, instead of writing my thoughts, is thinking of where and what to eat for dinner with HIM :-)

No, no - just food only - no sexy eats.

Maybe we can get something from the night market in SS2 in PJ this evening. Right now, I live in PJ with HIM - you know PJ is that small town about to be a city and which is totally lost inside a Greater Kuala Lumpur. I mean KL does not really stop at the Arch (ugly thing) but extends all the way to Subang. Boring stuff but when thinking of EATS, ah, PJ is good eats and cheap, too :-)

But how to feed a hungry HIM. I mean, I want HIM to be strong and healthy :-)

Back to eats - at the SS2 area, beside the weekly Monday night market with the myraids of food stalls with delicious food, there are all the small restuarants there.

We went to one last Friday evening - it was raining heavily. We were wet. We were cold (or rather the cold bit comes from the wet part!) amd we chance upon this new Italian Restaurant occupying one shotlot.

Very simply but nicely decorated - and very quiet - the heavy rain obviously kept all foodies at home! A quick flick though the menu got us what we wanted and the two of us shared the lot :-)

The bruschetta was delicious with the coarse-cut tomatoes and the flavoursome tangy balsamic vinegar. The clams and the chopped garlic in the sphagetti vongole were out of this world and I cleaned out the plates - every last morsel of the garlic (my POOR HIM!!!)! The pork sausages (oops, the restuarant is not kosher!) were made by the chef - the filling in the sausages was coarse-cut and meaty, not like many finely ground mush they call meat filling! We had a great tiramisu (it was not too sweet, just right!) and a complimentary pistachio ice cream (nice but I do not quite enjoy the slight "oily" taste from the pistachios) .....

If you feel hungry, try the BUONASERA. BTW, the chef used to work for the Aussie John Howard :-)

Oh heck, what was I doing - I should be thinking of food for tonight not think about the food last Friday. Hmm, it must the the afterglow from that evening afters that got me to think back to then :-)

Now, what to do dinner tonight? Maybe I should serve myself up on a platter :-)