This gonna be little old story, about 7-8yrs ago I set my goal which is opening my own restaurant in Australia. And I started documenting all the ideas from design of dining room, the concept of the restaurant, my own dishes, my chef jacket design(!!), menu format, plates I want to use... every single grain of ideas/infos/inspirations related to the restaurant I want to open one day.
Then I started thinking the name of my restaurant. I probably think over 100 names and picked one name, which was CbI. It means 'Creation by Inspiration', but I thought it was weak, not so bueno. So I took the name as temporary working title till I find right name. Then about 3 yrs ago suddenly & FINALLY I came up what I've been looking for, I finally found my answer, which is as you see here: P.S.I. Passion.Spirit.Inspiration.
To me this is perfectly described what involving in my cooking. JUST PERFECT!!! There're the ingredients, I cook what I believe, the food is served at my place. What is between the ingredients and myself? Why I cook? What drive me cook? More I say: this is hell of the answer why I live, who I am and these words applied for two other things I love, heavy metal and traveling! Without saying when I came up the name "P.S.I.", I was extremely happy. One thing I feel sorry is that I didn't mark the date, so I don't know when I came up the name P.S.I..... I'm a total roser....
Anyway... As soon as I came up P.S.I., what next thing I did? Google "restaurant psi' to know if there's any restaurants with same name!!!! And the result ...... I actually found one restaurant called psi in the world!! It is not restaurant psi though, a bit different thankfully.... it is called restaurante psi vegetariano........ in Lisbon!!
So... now if you read this till here, you may realize... One of the reason why I decided to come to Lisbon is ... to visit restaurante psi!! 2 days ago I went to dine PSI, I had a great meal. I seriously thought about talking to chef to tell him about my story. But after deep consideration, I just decided to leave the message in the guestbook.
It's really crazy that I came to visit PSI all the way from Hong Kong to Lisbon! Well, obviously this was not sole reason I came to Lisbon, but still.. One day, one day... I wanna see the chef at restaurante psi and invite the chef to my dining room till then.... my culinary journey continues, DUBLIN NEXT!!
