Johann Low

土曜日, 12月 25, 2004

[Lunch @ Fullerton]

Got quite a treat at Fullerton Hotel Singapore on Thurs. Nope it was not some pre-X Mas treats but it was a "hotel inspection" My manager asked me and one of my other colleague to go. It was supposedly to be a Japanese buffet but turned out otherwise. When we reached there, we were greeted by the Business Development Manager of Fullerton, a well-groomed, polite, tall and not bad looking Japanese ( if he has thicker hair, better looking still) He came to my office once and he brought some chocolate cake which costed $10 a slice (sales partially donate to Red Cross)

I am fine with the Japanese food but then somehow, we switched to Italian instead because International buffet was full and Italian seemed to be the most empty. Initially I was not quite too impressed with the food in there. Almost everything looked alien to me and certainly not appetitizing. Being a Singaporean pumpkin, I have not seen most of the food there before. Anyway there were alot of cheese and I do not fancy cheese in my food. The same goes for my other colleague.

Upon looking at the menu for the main course, I again have not a single clue what they were except for the word Salmon, spagetti something..the other main dish is something with mushrooms. I could not make up my mind again and so in the end, I followed what the Fullerton manager ordered, the salmon dish.

Now for the appetizers, I had some sweet milky pumpkin soup, one piece of weird tasting bread, a bun which I did not eat, one slice of roasted ham. The ham was ridiculously delicious. Then came my Salmon. I was quite surprised and I was expecting spaghetti with salmon but it was not !!! Served on a dish was one whooping chunk of roasted/baked salmon sitting on a small slope of some sliced veg.(looked like mao2 gua1 dong1 fen3) The salmon tasted heavenly, it was full of fats, the skin above was baked to a crisp. Even my manager (also Japanese) commented on the size of the salmon.

Anyway we had to eat with forks and knives which was never my forte. It was troublesome cos I am a hawker center/takeaway person. In fact, I have not (i think) dined in a restaurant which required me to use knife and forks before. HWHAHAHAHAHAHAa...the fatty salmon was too soft to be cut by the knife and I observed on how the Fullerton manager cut his..First, he sit the salmon on the side with the skin facing out and he cut the meat. WHAHAHAHAHHAAaaaa...so mafan to eat one meal, so I though. WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAaaa..Wah lau, I feel so sua ku!!!! Well I'm a poor man, I dun dine in posh restaurants. I prefer cheap and delicious food in hawker centers. I prefer Chinese food to anything else, give me a plate of wanton/shrimp dumplings noodles anytime, I rather perspire in a hawker center than to be so concious of myself in a "high class" enviroment.

Then we went to shoot photos of the various hotel rooms with my manager's $1800 semi-pro Sony digicam. The rooms came with internet access thru TV with a wireless keyboard. The basic rooms even have PS1 in it. I will be impressed if they have PS2. ahahaa. We did not see the Governor's Suite but was told that it cost from $6000 a night. 4 times my pay for one night's sleep. Well, they have Bang & Olufsen stereo leh...We also went to the ballrooms...which starts from $900 per table=translated to only for the sons and daughters of well-to-do families. There were spas, yoga, massages rooms at the lower floors, not to mention meeting rooms.

Kaoz...everything is so blardy exp. I suspect the piece of fish I ate there was already like $50? I rather have a $3.00 wanton/shrimp dumpling (with extra noodles) or mixed veg rice or a plate of piping hot Hokkien noodles.

elow at 5:53 午後 |

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