Bro's birthday @ Korean Palace

We had a bad encounter with the staff there on that day. Well, let me tell you the whole story.

We brought our own birthday cake and requested them to keep it in the fridge for us. After our satisfying meal, it was cake-cutting time. When they brought out the cake, it was in a messy condition. The fruits on top of the cake were all out of place, the cream was all over the box and the cake was tilted very badly. Yes, the cake was in a total mess!

Lina said when she went to the restroom, she saw one of the staff dropped the box of cake to the floor with the box intact. They did not even tell us and acted like nothing happened. If they were to apologize ahead, we would not have been so angry.

We quickly questioned the staff but they did not seem to understand our English. They are all foreigners with funny accent. It was like chicken and duck talk. We then told the Korean boss what happened and demanded for an explanation. The boss ordered his son to speak to us.

When we told him that his staff dropped our cake and it is spoilt, he said "It is not my problem, it is his problem!" while pointing at his staff and he added "Do you have money?" Walao! What kind of attitude is this? Instead of replying in such manner, he could have just apologized to us. After that, other staff began to talk in Korean and that guy who dropped our cake quickly apologized to us. He said with deep regret "I am very sorry" and he really looked very sorry and upset over the matter. Ok, at least after he apologized, we were not angry anymore and forgave him.

Then, our dessert was served. It was some Korean "tong shui" but it did not taste like usual ones. Bro commented that it had some cockroach smell in it and mom agreed too. Finally, all of us did not touch the dessert as we were also afraid that they will spit into our dessert as we scolded them just now. Kiasu and kiasi.

Lina said this would be her first and last visit to that restaurant. What a memorable birthday for bro!

Cheeky Janice

We had to rearrange the cake so that it looks nice

Mother's Day with MIL

MIL loves E&O so much that we dine there almost every big occassion. This time, we were being placed at the new wing. Something different! Janice patiently waited for the clown to give her balloon but he did not turn up. She was so dissappointed. Anyway, enjoy the below photos!

I did not get to eat the lobster. This is hubby's and when I wanted to take from the counter, it was all gone! So fast...

Eager to have their own grandchildren to play with

This was supposed to be MIL's birthday cake but the stupid waitress served it to a customer at another table who was also celebrating her birthday. Screwed up staff. Wasted our time and energy to order and take from Jenny Cake House. The ones who ate our cake was innocent because they received complimentary cake from E&O and totally had no idea it was our cake they were eating. Blame it on the brainless staff. How could they not recognize their own hotel's cake! Hubby was so pissed off that day.

The manager then apologized and served us another cake from E&O (luckily it was delicious) and gave us 2 free headcounts. That's more like it.

MIL was in jovial mood despite other people eating her favourite black forest cake from Jenny Cake House. Perhaps her motto is "Forgive and Forget".

Oh Sushi again

Initially we planned to go to Gurney but the traffic was super bad. Can you believe that it took us almost half an hour from G Hotel to the entrance of Gurney Plaza? Many drivers changed their minds and drove off while halfway queueing for the multi-level carpark. When we got nearer, hubby wound down the car window and asked the security personnel what was wrong. He told us that the parking ticket machine broke down and it could not provide any parking tickets. He then asked us to use the Kelawai Road entrance but he did not know that the whole Gurney area was jammed like mad because of this. Instead of routing us to another entrance, he should have used his mind to think and manually provide us the parking tickets. Silly joker! We were angry and hungry so off we went to Straits Quay.

I wanted to dine at Delicious but all the waiter and waitress seemed to be so busy and did not attend to us although we were standing for quite some time in front of the "Please wait to be seated" signboard. Feeling disgusted, I decided to walk in and instructed hubby to follow me to a nearby vacant table. Then only the waitress who was attending to a customer who was making an advanced reservation noticed us and said "Sir, you have to wait!" quite rudely. Hubby snapped back at her "Yes, we have been waiting!" Then the waitress continued to attend to her customer. That's enough! We stomped out from that restaurant at once.

That's when we decided to dine at Oh Sushi again. Before even reaching the entrance, a waiter was already standing there opening the door for us to go in and greeted us "Welcome" in Japanese. Once inside, we were greeted again by other waiter and waitress. It felt so warm. So friendly. Hubby said "See the difference?" Then he started to complain about how he dislike Delicious since the very first time he went there. Overpriced and so-so food and the latest is bad service. Hubby has banned the restaurant but I love the dessert there. Oh, well.

Clayton rejected the tofu in the miso soup, steamed egg (chawanmushi) as well as the plain rice on the sushi. He took only the garlic fried rice as it was yummy and fragrant. Smart ass.

Me and my sushi bento set

Hubby is a happy man as long as he does not step into Delicious

Oops! The flash is too bright!