Crap meals outI'd chosen to take my in-laws to one of my favourite restaurants, only to discover it had changed hands the week before. We waited half an hour to get menus. The waitress broke the cork in the wine we ordered. She got our order wrong. The food was luke-warm, mine was overcooked, the rest was undercooked. After waiting another 40 minutes for the last course, we were told that we couldn't have any as the chef had "forgotten to de-frost the puddings".
Let's just say they didn't get a tip. Tell us of your crap meals out.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 14:22)
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It's their *culture* innit?Thai meal, ate too much. They brought some Tom-yum soup out in a little green enamel tureen, and some soup spoons, and some (ever-so-slightly) concave side plates...
And that was it...
So I dutifully ladled the deliciously fiery concoction into the (ever-so-slightly) concave side plates... and we began to slurp down the spicy broth.
Waiter turned up 10 minutes later with the soup bowls. Big cock-knocker.
What made it worse was that the Missus turned to him, and, being (ever-so-slightly) blitzed on the wine we had been chugging smiled sweetly and told him we thought it was their culture to eat soup from side-plates. Blinking hell. She may as well have spoken v.e.r.y slowly and loudly, she sounded that bleeding patronizing. I daren't eat any more of the meal for fear 'johnny foreigner' would be doing something distasteful involving their love-gum and my satay sauce.
Another time, I had stir-fried whole crab. We broke the claws with our hands. Later on they brought us some shell-breaking-implements-that-looked-like-nut-crackers.
Do they do it on purpose?
Still, it wasn't as bad as Xmas dinner.
(, Fri 28 Apr 2006, 16:31, Reply)
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