Met Fungie in town yesterday for shopping. Poor girl is finally out of her house after kena chicken pox. And immediately after she recovered, she permed her hair and we went shopping! (Though Im meeting her again on Xmas day) HAHA, can you sense how anxious she wants to get out of her house?
Lunch was at THE PASTA SHOP by Sakae at Wheelock. It seems like there are more and more Japanses Pasta restaurants opening up in Singapore. Even Sakae has joined in the fun of playing with pasta. But well, I guess it was a wrong move for them.
I have never leave a restaurant feeling so pissed off and hoping that they will just close down, for goodness sake.
I have never sit in a nicely decorated restaurant feeling that everything is so screwed up and nearly die of hunger.
I have never seen how lousy a restaurant manager can be until I came here.
And mind you, Im not fussy or whatever, but this restaurnt, Im sorry, it's gona be a mark-down post in my food blog, with service 1/10.
Im serious.
We went into this restaurant at 1PM, thinking it's something new so we wanted to give it a try. They have this LUNCH SPECIAL ($13.95) which includes a pasta/curry rice, salad/soup and a drink.
And to be frank, they have lotsa pasta to choose from. Cream Sauce, Basil Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Ordinary Pasta etc, you name it, they have it. BUT, I couldn't really find something I would like to try. They have a few popular ones and specialties, but it wasn's that special or it doesnt look that yummy to me.
So in the end, Fungie picked Curry Pork Cutlet Rice while I chose THE PASTA SHOP BACON CABONARA. - which is their specialty. And we shared a Fried Chicken Cutlet with Cheese (Chicky Cheese).
So there comes and salad and soup, which was still ok.
Then while drinking it, the table beside us, complained to the waitress that they had waited for 30 mins and their pasta is still not here. In the end, after another 15 mins, they went off with only 2 cups of hot tea on the table.
So a while later, the waitress came with Fungie's Curry Rice. It was moderate, the rice as not soft, according to Fungie and the cutlet was ok and the curry was ok.
So she starts eating...
and SUDDENLY, the restaurant manager came with a bill and some change. We looked at her, she looked at us, blur blur and she asked: "You called for the bill right?"
Hello AUNTY, my main course not even here, I call bill for what?
and so Fungie continues to eat...
and eat...
and eat...
And she was eating very slowly, like slowly putting the last spoonful of rice into her mouth, slowly eating the curry potatoes...
and she even offered her cutlet and potatoes to me *weeps*
10 mins has passes.
20 mins has passed.
30 mins has passed.
ANOTHER FUNNY THING HAPPENED.
Fungie called the restaurant manager (the same one who gave us the bill). The restaurant manager gave Fungie a nod, which means she is coming over right?
BUT instead of coming over, she walk and walk and walk,
and WALK PASS US, and walk one big round around the restaurant, machiam like cat walk like that, TOTALLY IGNORE OUR PRESENCE.
SHOCKED!!
Ok, so in the end, we called one of the waitress to help me check my order. And she apologise for the delay and said there were alot of customers.
HELLO MISS, the restaurant is not even filled! it's not full. there is no queue and can you please tell me how do you define alot of customers?
so while im bored waiting for my food to arrive, we looked around and saw many tables with only appetizers, all like hungry ghost, waiting for the waitress to serve their main course.
Alright, so it;s not only us!
Then we stared at the entrance of the kitchen, hoping to see some food. We atared at it for a long time and nothing came out of the kitchen! it's like OMG!
So fungie guessed theres only a chef preapring everything.
I guessed the chef fainted in the kitchen with 'SO MANY' orders on hand.
Meanwhile, a group of PRC tourist sat beside us and placed their orders. AND not long later, the waitress came with a Pasta with Basil sauce for one of the PRC lady. My eyes were opened widely, staring at it, wondering how come their food has arrived and not mine! In the end, the waitress brought the WRONG FOOD to the WRONG TABLE. -_-
OkOk, after 40 mins of long wait, I was half pissed off and half amused by the wonderful service of the restaurant, my pasta is finally here! My pasta is here at 1.50PM. whoo!
I dont usually order creamy pasta, cuz I dun really know to eat/appreciate the cream. But today, I think Im out of mind, I actually wanted to try their SPECIALTY - the bacon cream pasta.
AND ok it sucks. totally.
The cream sauce was too creamy (that's biased comment cuz i dun realli like cream), I would prefer pasta to be more wet, with the creme, everything is stick together in a mess, and the BACON IS HARD N DRY!
The snacks we order, cheesy chicken, fungie said she cant taste the cheese and good gracious, it costs $9.90. Oh please, I give u 10 cents more, can u please throw this plate of expensive yet yuckky thing away?
In the end, i left half plate of pasta untouched. I was hungry. But i waited till i wasnt hungry anymore.
All along, i feel that i shouldnt criticize a restaurant too obviously, or at least do it in a subtle way. but the lousy food, the lousy service in the pasta shop, im sorry, i cant bring myself to be too kind.
THE PASTA SHOP - MY FIRST AND MY LAST.
so we called for the bill. it was another long wait again! SO we decided to head to the cashier ourselves and foot the bill lor. we asked the restaurant manager cum cashier about the long wait and the mess, he explained theres usu two chefs but ytd they only had one. the printer was screwed and everything was in a mess.
Not an excuse. You are in a service line. You work in a restaurant, so you should be prepared for all circumstance, hire enough service crew, train them well so that they dun deliever the wrong pasta to wrong table, promote ur restaurant managers ONLY when u feel they are up to it and not giving me the bill when I havent start my main course at all. Most importantly, HIRE ENOUGH CHEFS to cook for the small crowd. Cumon, it's not crowded at all and u are spending 45mins cooking those lousy food?
I think out of everything we have order, Fungie's curry rice is the safest and the best one. Even her cold green tea is BITTER water.
Im sure you can feel how lousy this restaurant is, cuz i wont usu comment anything about food or restaurant in my personal blog.
Ok enough of those, after the lousy lunch, it didnt dampen our shopping mood. Fungie's agenda was to get a xmas pressie for her boy. And yes, she got it finally. And it was an expensive gift. OMG.
I hope your boi likes it :)
In the evening, I head over to PS to meet the AJC girls for dinner to celebrate MIchelle's belated birthday cum Xmas! Dinner is at one of our fav restaurant, HOT TOMATO! Bought a bottle of rose fragrance from crabtree as it was her wishlist.
Photos! :) Ignore my ugly face, Im not in the mood of dressing up yesterday. But this lighting is really sucky. All these photos have been edited.
Lunch was at THE PASTA SHOP by Sakae at Wheelock. It seems like there are more and more Japanses Pasta restaurants opening up in Singapore. Even Sakae has joined in the fun of playing with pasta. But well, I guess it was a wrong move for them.
I have never leave a restaurant feeling so pissed off and hoping that they will just close down, for goodness sake.
I have never sit in a nicely decorated restaurant feeling that everything is so screwed up and nearly die of hunger.
I have never seen how lousy a restaurant manager can be until I came here.
And mind you, Im not fussy or whatever, but this restaurnt, Im sorry, it's gona be a mark-down post in my food blog, with service 1/10.
Im serious.
We went into this restaurant at 1PM, thinking it's something new so we wanted to give it a try. They have this LUNCH SPECIAL ($13.95) which includes a pasta/curry rice, salad/soup and a drink.
And to be frank, they have lotsa pasta to choose from. Cream Sauce, Basil Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Ordinary Pasta etc, you name it, they have it. BUT, I couldn't really find something I would like to try. They have a few popular ones and specialties, but it wasn's that special or it doesnt look that yummy to me.
So in the end, Fungie picked Curry Pork Cutlet Rice while I chose THE PASTA SHOP BACON CABONARA. - which is their specialty. And we shared a Fried Chicken Cutlet with Cheese (Chicky Cheese).
So there comes and salad and soup, which was still ok.
Then while drinking it, the table beside us, complained to the waitress that they had waited for 30 mins and their pasta is still not here. In the end, after another 15 mins, they went off with only 2 cups of hot tea on the table.
So a while later, the waitress came with Fungie's Curry Rice. It was moderate, the rice as not soft, according to Fungie and the cutlet was ok and the curry was ok.
So she starts eating...
and SUDDENLY, the restaurant manager came with a bill and some change. We looked at her, she looked at us, blur blur and she asked: "You called for the bill right?"
Hello AUNTY, my main course not even here, I call bill for what?
and so Fungie continues to eat...
and eat...
and eat...
And she was eating very slowly, like slowly putting the last spoonful of rice into her mouth, slowly eating the curry potatoes...
and she even offered her cutlet and potatoes to me *weeps*
10 mins has passes.
20 mins has passed.
30 mins has passed.
ANOTHER FUNNY THING HAPPENED.
Fungie called the restaurant manager (the same one who gave us the bill). The restaurant manager gave Fungie a nod, which means she is coming over right?
BUT instead of coming over, she walk and walk and walk,
and WALK PASS US, and walk one big round around the restaurant, machiam like cat walk like that, TOTALLY IGNORE OUR PRESENCE.
SHOCKED!!
Ok, so in the end, we called one of the waitress to help me check my order. And she apologise for the delay and said there were alot of customers.
HELLO MISS, the restaurant is not even filled! it's not full. there is no queue and can you please tell me how do you define alot of customers?
so while im bored waiting for my food to arrive, we looked around and saw many tables with only appetizers, all like hungry ghost, waiting for the waitress to serve their main course.
Alright, so it;s not only us!
Then we stared at the entrance of the kitchen, hoping to see some food. We atared at it for a long time and nothing came out of the kitchen! it's like OMG!
So fungie guessed theres only a chef preapring everything.
I guessed the chef fainted in the kitchen with 'SO MANY' orders on hand.
Meanwhile, a group of PRC tourist sat beside us and placed their orders. AND not long later, the waitress came with a Pasta with Basil sauce for one of the PRC lady. My eyes were opened widely, staring at it, wondering how come their food has arrived and not mine! In the end, the waitress brought the WRONG FOOD to the WRONG TABLE. -_-
OkOk, after 40 mins of long wait, I was half pissed off and half amused by the wonderful service of the restaurant, my pasta is finally here! My pasta is here at 1.50PM. whoo!
I dont usually order creamy pasta, cuz I dun really know to eat/appreciate the cream. But today, I think Im out of mind, I actually wanted to try their SPECIALTY - the bacon cream pasta.
AND ok it sucks. totally.
The cream sauce was too creamy (that's biased comment cuz i dun realli like cream), I would prefer pasta to be more wet, with the creme, everything is stick together in a mess, and the BACON IS HARD N DRY!
The snacks we order, cheesy chicken, fungie said she cant taste the cheese and good gracious, it costs $9.90. Oh please, I give u 10 cents more, can u please throw this plate of expensive yet yuckky thing away?
In the end, i left half plate of pasta untouched. I was hungry. But i waited till i wasnt hungry anymore.
All along, i feel that i shouldnt criticize a restaurant too obviously, or at least do it in a subtle way. but the lousy food, the lousy service in the pasta shop, im sorry, i cant bring myself to be too kind.
THE PASTA SHOP - MY FIRST AND MY LAST.
so we called for the bill. it was another long wait again! SO we decided to head to the cashier ourselves and foot the bill lor. we asked the restaurant manager cum cashier about the long wait and the mess, he explained theres usu two chefs but ytd they only had one. the printer was screwed and everything was in a mess.
Not an excuse. You are in a service line. You work in a restaurant, so you should be prepared for all circumstance, hire enough service crew, train them well so that they dun deliever the wrong pasta to wrong table, promote ur restaurant managers ONLY when u feel they are up to it and not giving me the bill when I havent start my main course at all. Most importantly, HIRE ENOUGH CHEFS to cook for the small crowd. Cumon, it's not crowded at all and u are spending 45mins cooking those lousy food?
I think out of everything we have order, Fungie's curry rice is the safest and the best one. Even her cold green tea is BITTER water.
Im sure you can feel how lousy this restaurant is, cuz i wont usu comment anything about food or restaurant in my personal blog.
Ok enough of those, after the lousy lunch, it didnt dampen our shopping mood. Fungie's agenda was to get a xmas pressie for her boy. And yes, she got it finally. And it was an expensive gift. OMG.
I hope your boi likes it :)
In the evening, I head over to PS to meet the AJC girls for dinner to celebrate MIchelle's belated birthday cum Xmas! Dinner is at one of our fav restaurant, HOT TOMATO! Bought a bottle of rose fragrance from crabtree as it was her wishlist.
Photos! :) Ignore my ugly face, Im not in the mood of dressing up yesterday. But this lighting is really sucky. All these photos have been edited.
I bought this mini cake for Michelle - RASPBERRY PASSION from Breadtalk!
Happy Belated Birthday Michelle! Sorry we are one month late! :p
It was a tuesday! so after dinner, we head over to GELARE to enjoy the half price waffle! Yummy! N we exchange presents! I got Lishan's magical coin box (thanks girl, I think it suits me, cuz i need to save money! haha), jieying got my Red Earth blusher and Lishan got a pretty butterfly necklace. Michelle got us small souvenirs from japan, which is very pretty, esp the tissue holder. Thanks Mich!
Alrights, hope you guys have a merry merry xmas and we'll meet soon k! :)
P/S: I just paid close to 1K for my hostel. BROKE LIAO!
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