It has been months, if not over a year, since I last ate at Pepper Lunch. A constant visit to the place sometime last year has left me sated for a long time, enough not to warrant a hankering for pepper rice until recently.
There are some restaurants that grow old with you, to the point that you don't have to look at the menu every time you go there, simply because you know it by heart. And there are some that you thought would grow old with you but there is that one fateful visit where you vaguely wonder, has their food retrogressed or was it your palate that has changed?