I am on my way home but can't wait another 40 minutes with nothing to eat since midday except a few glasses of bad, sweet bubbly wine with only 5% alcohol.
A quick something small should stop me biting anyone's head of or getting into a fight.
Julia's pasta - no spaghetti, tagliatelle or linguine! That's not possible surely. The Dutch don't eat their pasta al dente and the last thing I need is a dish of soggy white carbs.
There's a queue, it's made to order but the prices are so cheap I don't trust it.
Next La Place - cold sandwiches, cold pizza, cold smoothies on offer - all have clearly sat there for some time. No way I am putting cold food from a chiller unit inside me in temperatures not much above freezing.
Enoki, last option.
It says Fresh Asian Cuisine
In the time since I walked in, thought "Nah", then checked the other two, they are getting ready to close so it's now or nothing.
The sushi has no time signatures on it - a very bad sign - so that is a massive "No effin way!" Clearly it has been kept for far longer than it should be. Which is what happens often when non Japanese make it. They charge the same prices without the meticulous, time connected 'wastage' that ensures the safety of the consumer and the deliciousness of the sushi and sashimi. I also notice that the temperature is way to low, meaning that the rice will be hard and tasteless.
I choose gyoza's they only have prawn ones left.
The filling, shown in the picture is exactly what I wanted to avoid in Julia's, a soggy mass of some pappy, filthy, carby mass, with not even a tiny structural likeness of anything like a prawn anywhere to be seen or tasted. You can see the texture on the chopsticks. The gyoza's are truly horrible, inedible, even, actually, especially with the super, sweet, also carby (cornfloury), tasteless, dipping sauce.
I also ordered a Thai green curry soup
As portion is less that a half cup, it was also tepid, the green leaves in it were tasteless, definitely not (Thai) basil or kafir lime.
I didn't expect the soup to be very spicy (it wasn't at all) but there are none of the flavours you would expect - lemongrass, galangal, garlic, coriander, lime. There were 5 prawns and a large amount of enoki - small thin clumps of fungi - which I love but, they are totally misplaced in a Thai green curry soup and so limp and separated I thought at first they were noodles.
The fact that it is still operating and that pretty much everything was sold out is another sad testament to either disdain so clearly felt here for good food or people being too lazy to complain.
And by the way, those two things in the picture cost just under 10 euros!
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