Usually, when people write about amazing supper places, the places they write about are actually amazing. Like, they have good food, a good crowd, and they open throughout the night so you can hit it for a good bite at like 4am, because no one goes to sleep on an empty stomach.
Then you realise that I'm writing this particular review. And any illusion that I'm about to write anything gratifying or remotely flattering goes out of the window. If it's any consolation, I'm usually funny, and I write grammatically without awkward abbreviations.
I will not name this place, because according to my friend, their flaw is actually one of their more endearing quirks. Now, what is this flaw? Only the very small crime of never ever getting your order right. Ever.
So it was the three of us, hungry after an overnight round of mahjong. We decided to stop at this supper place, and my friend, having a little stomach upset decided to go for a non-spicy mee goreng, and my other friend did the same. I ordered an egg and cheese prata.
The orders came back. The two mee gorengs were terribly spicy, and the waiter came back and asked me for my order three times in between. I mean, how hard is it, one cheese and one egg prata. But he still managed to get it wrong. He came back with one cheese prata, one egg prata, and one extra gosong which I never ordered. Wow, thanks, three for the price of two but I don't want three pratas because I can't eat all of them?
The food wasn't really awesome either. The prata was frankly one of the worst I've ever eaten, and that's amazing because I've actually eaten microwaved prata in England and that was still better than this. That was plain, and it had too much flour, but it still tasted like prata. The cheese prata I ate here, I frankly wondered if the cheese had expired twice.
My friend even tried to rationalise why the nonspicy mee goreng was actually well, spicy. He said "Maybe they didn't wash the wok after cooking the last batch of spicy mee goreng." Well okay cool. Then don't offer non-spicy mee goreng because it's technically impossible if you are too lazy to even wash your wok. Heck, if you're too lazy to wash your wok, I don't even want to know what other horrors are waiting to be discovered about your food.
Horrible food aside, I think the fact they don't even get your order right grates the most. What is the point of having a waiter take your order, if you might as well tell him "surprise me!" and actually have a better chance of getting your order right? In fact, that was what my friend told me. He said, all the times I've been here, they always get my order wrong, despite the fact I always order the same thing and they know I'm a regular face.
Wow.