ESC Dinner

Had a dinner with last year's ESC members at Funan Swensens with =.=, CK, S and XY. We had missed the last bi-monthly lunch for last year, so we got some Swensens gift voucher for that and also in appreciation of the efforts for the year.

=.= was late. He said he almost couldn't make it as he slept on the bus on his way back from client side. By the time he reached, we almost finished the starters and some of our main course were already served. =.= ordered his favourite chicken sandwich. As it turned out, the turkey becon inside the sandwich was not crispy at all. It looked like ham to me. And so he asked one of the staff who said they had a new menu which just started today and this could be a different way of preparing the food. Not a very good answer I thought. Meanwhile =.= was looking at the menu which contains the phrase "crispy turkey bacon". This means that they should served him the sandwich with the crispy bacon. In the end they took back the dish and came out with another one, with a slightly better turkey bacon. But =.= was still not satisfied.

I ordered the new Salmon and mushroom pasta which I thought the portion looked very small. To make it worse, it didn't taste very nice as well. Luckily S offered me her pasta and in the end, I took almost 2 person's serving of food. Later on we ordered the dessert, one of which is called "White Chocolate Blondie" if I remembered correctly. It comes with a frying pan which was pipping hot, and they pour some maple syrup and nuts into the pan to mix it up. I like this very much, it was especially good to be consumed while hot.

Finally just before we were leaving, the manager of the outlet came over and =.= complained to him about the bacon that was not crispy. Then the manager offered to prepare another sandwich for =.=, but he declined and requested only for another piece of crispy bacon instead. After a few minutes, the manager really came with 2 pieces of bacon served on a plate. This time the bacon was crispy enough but still, =.= felt it tasted different from the last time he ate.

The crispy turkey bacon

Finally there was still some drama while we went to settle our bill. We were using gift vouchers, and on top of that, there was a 10% discount when we pay for the bill using credit card from 2 particular banks. We asked the staff if the discount was given to the overall bill. But the staff said that the discount was given to the balance of the bill after the vouchers were used. This was different from the last time when some of them came. So we spent a few minute trying to clarify this. At the end of the day, after we took a look at the bill, found that the discount was still given to the bill before the wouchers, GST and service charge. So that was pretty ok, hehe...