I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want

[white_hart]

I am currently in the grip of a desperate and hopeless craving for Wagamama. Miso-glazed cod ramen with a side of bang bang cauliflower, for preference, but honestly I'd settle for anything on the menu. It's nearly two years since I last ate there, and actually I can count the number of times I've eaten decent East Asian food (as opposed to bog-standard Chinese takeaway) in that time on the fingers of one hand*.

Sadly, I'm not about to go and eat in a crowded noodle bar, and they don't deliver outside the ring road, so I am not going to be able to satisfy this craving any time soon, and somehow home-cooked alternatives aren't the same.

I've almost forgotten what it was like to be able to plan holidays and actually see people in person, and I don't feel like I miss it that much, but my goodness I miss Wagamama.


*Two sushi deliveries from the person locally who does prebooked deliveries on a Saturday evening most weeks; one takeaway sushi in the rain in swimming friend L's garden; one takeaway sushi in town with friends from Glasgow who were visiting last summer; one lunch from Itsu I treated myself to last term** when similar cravings got too much.

**Maybe on one of my office days next week I could do that again, if I have a day with enough time between meetings to walk into town and back as well as eating.

Comments

[serriadh]

Have you looked on deliveroo? Our "local" (not very near) Wagamama's doesn't deliver to us but they are on deliveroo. I wouldn't order anything I wanted piping piping hot, but gyoza and katsu chicken arrive unscathed.

[white_hart]

I have, but deliveroo also don't deliver outside the ring road for city centre restaurants.

[serriadh]

Boo, how rubbish of them.

[mrs_redboots]

That really is rubbish of them! I did order Wagamama once during lockdown, but we had a sort of policy of not ordering from chains, on the grounds that independents would be struggling even more. But I do love their food.... also missing Nando's, but we may go there again soon as it is less crowded than Wagamama tends to be.

[white_hart]

Oxford ring road is basically a hard boundary for most deliveries from places in the city. Our takeaway options are Indian, Chinese or Dominos, or fish and chips if we walk to pick it up, so we have had very few takeaways through lockdown.