Saturday, May 24, 2008
What's money without sharing it?
Dinner was at Golden Mile last night. Erm, dinner was rather terrible, I would say. It's still edible but definitely not good enough for my expectations. We had steamboat. But, i would definitely not call it a steamboat dinner when it isn't. We were given 2 plates of uncooked food consisting of cockles, fishballs, prawns, fish maw and the pig's kidney, 2 plates of leafy cabbages, 2 eggs and 4 bowls of chicken-flavoured rice.

The uncle added a bowl of hot water and here we go, start to add all the limited ingredients we had because you will have to order another plate of raw food which means extra expenses. It was simple-fare dinner which I could prepare myself! There was no soup base at all, no choice of chicken soup base/fish soup base. It was just hot water, and add the ingredients-there you go, the soup base. Therefore, soup was totally bland.

Brother ordered extra dishes like roasted meat and chicken. Luckily he did that, if not I don't think i would be able to finish my rice. Rice was oily too. I'm disappointed man! And all these cost me $67. Yes, i am the Lao Ban(boss) for that night. I wanted desserts, but all the dessert stalls had already closed for the day.

In the end, we went to Cue Bar to play billard and pool. The place was filled with the stench of smoke. Anyway, I didn't really have the chance to play much, because of my brother. Once he starts hiting the balls, the first ball goes in the pocket, and immediately my forward-thinking mechanism is activated. Esther, it's time to sit down and relax and watch your brother play instead. But, my cousin is much more kind. I get to hit afew balls in though.

The toilets there are even horrifying and terrible. Tissues were everywhere, small cockroaches crawling around in one of the cubicle, basins were so dusty, toilet seats were wet. It was just awful. The stench was already in the air even before nearing the toilets.

$67 for such a dinner.
ohwell, what's money if you don't share it with loved ones?
Signing off @ 7:33 PM