Sushi, Bento, and Blenz
Went downtown yesterday… it was a hot day and I fell asleep in the car while reading, hehe :p
Anyways, went for a meeting at Blenz and I had this iced moccha. I also ordered a shaken peach iced tea for Sze Zin and guess what… I was kept waiting over the counter long enough to drive me nuts. I can’t stand it when people make me wait like stupid. How was it like stupid? Well, this waiter took my order, I paid, and he passed my order on to his fellow waitress who was then making 3 ice blended’s for another lady. She was swaying her way back and forth ever so slowly and it took her forever to get the 3 cups of order done. Finally she went to my order. Again, moving ever so slowly to just get that 1 iced tea done. Then she put the iced tea on the counter for me. She went back and moved from left to right, right to left, and I was wondering what the heck she was up to.
There were 2 other customers AFTER me, and they both had walked away with their cuppas. I was still standing there watching this not-so-attractive ballet-wannabe movements. The waiter was done with all the orders and it looked to me like both of them were now relaxing while I was still standing there!! I started to get pissed.
“Hey guys, so is this going to take much longer, you think?” I asked both of them.
The waitress looked confused with my comments, and before they opened their mouth, I said “I’ve been waiting here forever, and your 2 other customers who came AFTER I did have also walked away with their orders.”.
The waiter: “Erm… what are you waiting for?” (in very low, polite voice)
Me: (in high-pitch angry voice and face) “MY ORDER!?! What else am I waiting for???”
The waitress then tried to speak in defense, saying that they only had one machine that makes moccha, and that she was working on the other order. I said, “I don’t care about that. It takes too unreasonably long for me to just get my cup of moccha. And 2 other customers have walked away. I have a meeting in progress, you know?”
The waiter handed me a “Friends of Blenz” card rightaway without saying much. It’s basically a card that they give out to customers who are not satisfied so that they get a free item the next time they order. He then went on to apologize, and took over the moccha work by himself.
And guess what, it didn’t even take 1 minute to make my drink when I stand in their face like that. But when I was being nice, they took forever.
Anyways… enough of the emotions.
We had sushi and bento for dinner downtown after the meeting before heading home.
My chicken teriyaki bento that came with salad, 2 pieces of gyoza, and 4 pieces of tempura including 2 ebi tempura. Yum~ Of course I couldn’t finish this all by myself.
And Sze Zin had this tray of sushi (salmon, crab meat and avocado).
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Indonesian-born Chinese. Grew up in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Went to college, worked and lived in KL, Malaysia for 8.5 years. Lived briefly in Vancouver, Canada before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia.
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Seafood and spicy food lover. Electone and piano player. Meticulous, inquisitive, and quite a neat freak sometimes.
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