Sunday, October 12, 2008

Orchard Parade Hotel

Jinghua's wedding at Orchard Parade Hotel. Service sucks big time. for starters, the place has quite a number of pillars so much of what is going on the stage is blocked.

im not sure if its coz its a sunday and next day is monday hence the servers are trying to rush the guest because the server serving us was totally rushing us through the dishes. also, she was totally giving us attitude and a black face throughout. what is worst is when she tried to keep our plates, her hands brushed against my eyes and she didnt even bother to apologise.

one of the horrendous story was yunping was telling us the server from her table miscalculated the number of people on the table and missed out a bowl of sharks fin while seperating it into little bowls. When informed, the server just went over to the side where all the big bowls were placed to scoop a bit from here and there to make up the plate. although technically it was clean, it kind of grossed out everyone from the table. Yunping was so funny. she was commenting at .. " even if she wanted to do that, should at least hide and not let me see... " hahah

one server who is more senior even very openly brought her 'disciple' to our table and was loudly teaching him... " you see, this table, got empty sets, look very messy, you must clear .. etc etc ".. we are like practicing targets. Got me reminded of the captain in novotel who did it much more discreetly and tastefully. There is really a great disparity in the service level.

also, note that there are only 2 female cubicles.. when kaizhi and myself visited the toilet in the midst of the dinner, we heard many people complaining and commenting that they will never hold their wedding or functions here after this experience.

food wise, it was actually all pretty good and tasty.











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