Carrots of Might

Who knew boiled carrots were so dangerous?

One fine evening, I was at my neighbor's to help them with some cooking. Apparently, my white sauce recipe (the only thing I could cook decently here) is quite a hit! And now they're planning to combine my sauce, with their stir-fried veggies (the only thing they could cook properly).

So off I go with my creaminess, threw in the veggies, and came up with a nameless vegetarian delight. Of course, when they weren't looking, I threw in a dash of garlic powder, chili powder, a pinch of salt, and a small puff of pepper.

Somehow they managed to notice the pepper... a budding connoisseur perhaps?

And then to show their gratitude, they've let me have a bowl of the stuff on top of steamed rice. Oh, and they also have leftover noodles, so they gave that to me too. I was terribly hungry, starving even, that night so I mixed them all up and gobbled a dollop.

I was careless. As soon as I sank my teeth, I knew something has gone wrong. Horribly wrong.

Well there was the crisp broccoli, mushy carrots, hard tooth, crunchy onion... wait... tooth...?

A check with my tongue, and I found out that a molar at the lower-right side has shattered. It was now like a C-shaped hollow mess. And then I panicked. I immediately spit out the mush on the kitchen sink and found my tooth (most of it) embedded on the abominable carrot. Staring at it didn't really help my tooth much, but it abated my panic. Never before have I stared down a tooth-embedded carrot mush with such contempt.

*groan* I don't know what to do with my tooth, and I find the thought of going to a Japanese dentist quite daunting (based on the accounts I've read about them). Not like I have any other choice now do I?

Somebody help me find a good, if not normal, dentist!