Vaguely appetizing

Because of work com­mit­ments, we’ve been eat­ing out a lot, and we haven’t had much luck with the qual­ity of food either.

Being a lit­tle adven­tur­ous, we decided yes­ter­day evening to drive all the way, 45 min­utes and 30 km, in the evening jam, to Changi Vil­lage to dine at Charlie’s cor­ner, only to find that Charlie’s corner’s closed on Mondays.

We did how­ever, plonk our­selves down at this ‘Per­sian and Ital­ian’ restau­rant called Par­dis, which, because it was labelled ‘Per­sian and Ital­ian’, looked appeal­ing enough for us to plonk our­selves down at.

How­ever, the Per­sian part of the restau­rant must have had some com­mu­ni­ca­tion issues with the Ital­ian part because they got three out of our four orders wrong.

They did how­ever, apol­o­gise pro­fusely and vow on their grandmother’s grave to com­pen­sate us ‘the next time we ate there’. Per­haps sus­pect­ing that there mightn’t be a next time, a staff mem­ber who looked like he was the pro­pri­etor gave us each a glass of his best sparkling grape juice after we had fin­ished eat­ing and asked for the bill, which they took 10% off as well.

A few days before that, and at the south­ern end of our fine island, we added one more restau­rant to the list of eater­ies we’ve patron­ized at Vivo City. The Tung Lok Group’s new restau­rant there, called Tung Lok some­thing some­thing, boasts a pleas­ant har­bour view, del­i­cate dim sum and wait­resses with the weird­est out­fits you’ll find in a Chi­nese restaurant.

I didn’t take any pic­tures of them though it was weird enough to war­rant a few snap­shots, but if you’d pic­ture an Ao Dai with one whole side snipped off from the waist down, you’d be about right.

The food was good, though, as was the ser­vice from the lop-sided wait­resses, who very help­fully explained and described every dish you pointed at in the menu — mostly because the menu really wasn’t help­ful.

iTunes is play­ing an ille­gal copy of Al Vaivén de Mi Car­reta (To the Rock­ing of My Cart) from the album “Dis­tinto Difer­ente” by Afro Cuban All Stars of which I have the orig­i­nal CD.

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