Saturday, October 11, 2008
I met up with WJ for lunch at Miss Clarity today to collect from her some stuff she got from Taiwan. The soft shelled crab with tomato sauce base linguine was delicious. The linguine especially. I could have eaten it plain with the tomato sauce. I love tomato sauce based pasta! The crab itself was so so... nothing fantastic. Of course, dessert was bread and butter pudding. Just when she was sipping the last bit of her orange juice, she suddenly took out something from her mouth, threw something on the table and rather loudly, shouted COCKROACH!
There it was, the culprit was lying on the table after she took it out of her mouth and threw on the table, horrified. It was a baby cockroach (dead of course... probably drown.. but the cause of death was of course not important at all...). She said it so loudly that the staff, a Malay guy walked over to see what's the commotion about. He told us that he didn't know how it got there and that he'd talk to his manager to enquire more. After awhile he came back and once again apologized about it and said something about someone before that ordering the same thing.. blah blah.. as if such a thing will occur in every glass of orange juice. That would have been atrocious!
Anyway, WJ was magnanimous enough to just brush it aside (or maybe she fel too faint and grossed out) and said it's ok. However, I felt indignant because the manager himself/ herself did not even show his/her face plus not knowing the reason was not good enough a reason. However since she didn't wanna pursue the matter, I didn't say anything to the staff. He came back awhile later to clear the dead body of the culprit. It's kind of funny actually if you're not the victim and anyway she could even laugh it off (like I said, maybe she was too grossed out and got a little crazy). In fact, I told her that maybe she should have swallowed it and not taken it out then she wouldn't have known it's a cockroach.
We continued to sit there to chat and about an hour later when we were about the ask for the bill, the staff told us that the cafe's absorbed the cost. At least they were zi dong about it...
After we left the place. We thought that it's a pity were didn't order something even more ex. Wahahah...
Serendipity believed today at 10:44 PM
