Alololo

Apple & Rhubarb Crum­ble,
Cor­duroy Cafe

Before and after your movie at Vivo City, there are sev­eral places to hang out at that might tickle your fancy (with more food and bev­er­age out­lets yet to open).

But, and it is a very big but, the Cor­duroy Cafe on level 1 does not serve hot meals between the hours of 3pm and 6pm for rea­sons known only to their management.

Per­son­ally, I think that’s a freakin’ stu­pid pol­icy, espe­cially after I had mulled over the menu for a good five min­utes before decid­ing on the beef stroganoff, only to be told by the cashier, who had been patiently wait­ing for me for five min­utes to decide on the beef stroganoff, that there was no beef stroganoff to be had because it was a hot meal, and that there were no hot meals to be had between three and six.

So, Naomi and I went upstairs to this place called ‘White Dog Cafe’, which looked like another place which one might dine in the lap of lux­ury, and the decor, set against the 2nd floor out­door board­walk, looked as promis­ing as some of the items on the menu.

Fet­tucini Aglio Olio (Alololo)
White Dog takes the ‘Olio’ bit very seriously.

Naomi decided quickly on a pasta dish, and attempted to give the waiter a fur­ther request to ensure that the pasta was done al dente.

I gave her the ‘no, don’t bother ask­ing’ look, and later told her that it was a lost cause ask­ing a waiter any­thing else right after he’s repeated your order as Fet­tucini Alololo and Pungkim Shoop.

Of course, she already knew that because she’d observed the waiter’s blank look for about five sec­onds before say­ing never mind.

The rest of White Dog’s Cafe’s menu is inter­est­ing — there’s a Spicy Banana Chill which menu describes as:

A Caribbean Combo to tan­ta­lize the taste­buds with just a hint of heart in every mouth­ful of sweetness

Of course, I had no idea from that descrip­tion what the Spicy Banana Chill con­tained besides bananas, so I just had to order it and try.

Naomi tells me I could’ve just asked the waiter(ess) before order­ing. But after a sip of the drink, I ask anyway:

“What’s in the Spicy Banana Chill?”

“Um, banana and wait lemme check.”

Unfor­tu­nately, the wait­ress scooted off to check before I could ask further:

“OK, can you tell me what ani­mal heart goes into it?”

But yeah, not so excit­ing, the con­tents. Only bananas, milk and some chili flakes.

iTunes is play­ing an ille­gal copy of Sweet & Lovely from the album “As Time Goes By” by Bryan Ferry of which I have the orig­i­nal CD.

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