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Happy Labor Day weekend y’all!! We hope you don’t.. ummm.. “Labor” too much (or at all) this weekend.

And oh yeah, we aint open tonight for Friday night din-dins OR Monday at all. Me & my ankle are gonna chill with lil ol’ GQ “the Wonder Dog” for the weekend instead. LOL

Have fun! Stay safe and… Get REALLY plastered (only if you want to.. But you KNOW you wanna ^^)

Xoxo,

TEAM SK

HellO GQ (and friends), sorry NO DIN-DINS this week (but its still the last week for the SK KARA-GE foo’s!)

We gots keep our sanity, keep our staff going & keep on truckin’ along because.. We will NOT go down without a fight! HUZZAH!!

(plus in the grand scheme of things losing two line cooks & not having a sous chef right now aint so bad.. Umm I think ^_^)

Btw, that also means no Durian Flan Cheesecake today or tomorrow too. But all that mumbo-jumbo should dealt with by next week.

But until then, come for lunchie-munchies, stuff yer face with some of our grub (especially the SK KARA-GE since its about to skeedaddle) and go get yerself a nice foot and/or body massage ‘cause you deserve it (but I’m not covering, I just thought a little daily positive affirmation would be a nice way to end this post ^_^)

Toodles,

TEAM SK

PANDAN CHEESECAKE (and let’s try it for both lunch & Din-Dins since I made a decent amount if you want to try you some!)… that’s what that mysterious green stuff is above (at least the underbelly of it) and what GQ is eyeing in the corner of the picture (ahhh he’s a dastardly one that dog… he’ll eat almost anything!)

And that does unfortunately mean…

no DURIAN FLAN CHEESECAKE tonight (I forgot to bring home the durian last night.. DOH!!) Maybe Friday night.. but we’ll see about that.

And just in case you were bored and were wondering about how our popular response has been recently, here’s one response we got recently (and I promise I didn’t write this either… I PROMISE! ^_^)

Oh yeah, one last thing: last chance for LEMONGRASS TOFU awesome-tastic-vegan-riffic-ness tonight/tomorrow night for Din-Dins!

See ya!

TEAM SK

PS-“technically” the dessert should be called a Pandan Flan Cheesecake… BUT, that would be so confusing since we DO serve a PANDAN FLAN.. just in case you were still bored (how bored are you anyway?!?! LOL)

Dear CRISPY TOFU BALLS,

“FAREWELL” (after tonight of course) from GQ (he’s the that’s licking me in mid-pose ^_^) and I would like to bid you  for possibly most of the summer! If people do not come and try ya tonight… they will have to wait and I will have to continue referring to “them” in the 3rd person as if I’m always having a conversation w/ you our beautifully green tofu ball friend).

But it’s not just you that’s going away, is it?!

Today is ALSO the last Lunchie-Munchie day for the SPICY KOREAN BLACK PORK BELLY (aka one of the dishes I “F-CKING LOOOOOVE”). 

Unfortunately, I’m outta time and gotta go fry your crispy green arse. So… until we meet again (in about 30 minutes from now ^_^).

Xoxo,

TEAM SK

Wanted to take a moment from the normal SK tomfoolery (FYI-ONLY din-dins tonight & last night for the SPICY “CRACK” KRAB CAKES too y’all!!) to wish our mascot+beloved dog, GQ, A Happy Birthday (he’s old, he’s 10!!!) ^_^

If you think we’re laying around doing nothing like GQ here who won’t let go of my ankle, you would be partially wrong (because hey, who doesn’t want to lay around & hug an ankle or two, right??)

Had an early mornin’ staff meetin’ today, so no time for YouTube-nnanigans and thensome, but know this…

The PANDAN CHICKEN (aka THE most laborious dish we make!) is coming back- me thinks this wk for din-dins.

Let ya know more soon.

Bye!

TEAM SK

PS- I think this is unofficially SK Chicken Week with the SK KARA-GE (aka Japanese Popcorn Chicken) & possibly PANDAN CHICKEN coming back and all.. Whoa… Profound! (to no one else but me of course LOL)

Arrgh.. we’re POSTPONING FRIED CHICKEN NIGHT… until next year (that sounds epic, except “next year” is only 3 weeks away thankfully!)

(btw, but Din-Dins tonight+tmrw is still on.. and at least we still have DOUBLE-FRIED SWEET GINGER GLAZED CHICKEN WINGS.. I mean, I’m just sayin’!)

So this picture, which I lovingly use for many different wonderfully absurd occasions, represents how we (or I) feel about postponing it. We REALLY want to, but it’s not QUITE there yet and we’re not happy to serve it yet. We thought it would and it could be, but it ain’t.

Wanna know why and/or are you really bored??

Rule of thumb we forgot since we started (and because we don’t cook at home NEARLY as much as we did before):

• Testing at home and testing at the restaurant… TWO very different things.

The SK FRIED CHIX was tested a few times at SKHQ (aka Home), but when we moved the recipe to an industrial fryer…. WHOOOOOOA NELLY was it DIFFERENT!

So in summary, we ain’t happy with the final product (yet), so we gots to perfect it before we serve it to ya and ask for your $$$ in exchange (‘cause when you give your hard earned $$$ you kinda expect it to be good, right?!?!)

Look, even GQ is sad and confused!!!

(pssst- we MIGHT have a secret stash of the SK FRIED CHIX tomorrow/Friday night if we conquer this problem earlier than later.. I’ll tweet/facebook/start a whisper campaign if it does)

Otherwise, Din-Dins is STILL on tonight/tomorrow (6-9.30p) AND we’re STILL doing the FREE DESSERT w/ “Check-in Tom-foolery” Deal too.

Sorry for all the fuss, and hopefully you haven’t completely written us off.. and if you have… why would you be reading the blog anymore anyway?!?! Hmmmmm

Much love,

TEAM SK

UPDATE: Forgot to mention, we are ALSO not open on Monday, July 5th since most of the Financial District (aka “the banks”) are closed as well. Sorry for those that wanted to come on their Monday off too.. hope we can see you some other time (like Thurs-Sat nite Din Dins! ^_^)

Happy 4th of July weekend.. btw, we AIN’T (aka ARE NOT) open tomorrow / SATURDAY, July 3rd. We too need to take a breather, but Saturday Din Dins will be back on July 10 (along w/ the Thurs + Fri Din Dins too).

We ARE open for Din Dins tonight (Fri, July 2nd, 6-9.30p) though. So if you wanna stop by, say “Hi” and maybe even grub a lil.. we won’t mind! ;)

For those of you here that dun care about any of that mumbo jumbo…

Today is the LAST (lunch) DAY for the TAIWANESE FRIED PORK CHOP.

On an unrelated note, I wanna play more Motown at the restaurant, and here’s one of my favorite songs too.

Short anecdote about this song: one time my car radio got stolen so I didn’t have any music in my car anymore… so I used to listen to this song every morning, and then sing this “SAME OLD SONG” all the way to work. Seriously, I would listen, and then hope I remembered the lyrics enough to sing all the way to work. (I know, I’m a dork LOL ^_^)

Happy 4th of July folks!

TEAM SK

PS- I know I’ve used this picture a lotta times… but WTH, it’s a nice pic w/ GQ opening his mouth and makes me laugh everytime I see it! LOL