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By: It’s so good to go home | Wandering Gourmet

It’s so good to go home | Wandering Gourmet — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:31:34 +0000

[...] For mum’s birthday dinner, we went to Hong Kong BBQ – a famous Chinese restaurant in Northbridge. The food was absolutely delicious as usual. The only scary part was that I was going to order Patagonian fish but was recommended by the Waitress to have the Perch. I thought I had ordered another fish, but scarily enough the fish we were given looked like the dead fish that was in the aquarium. Yikes! Fortunately I double checked and the dead fish was still there sinking at the bottom of the tank. Phew! In hindsight, I should have probably sticked to my guns after reading 1,001 Things They Won’t Tell You which I mentioned in a previous blog post about why not to order the specials of the day. [...]

By: angie

angie — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:49:22 +0000

That’s a great tip, Thomas! It especially helps if they turn green if they’ve worked there before. As a student I worked in a fine dining restaurant and I didn’t approve of one of their practices. For some reason, when ever we did the coffee and teas, the sugar would be green. I would always try to tip all the green gunky stuff out of the sugar tin so it wouldn’t land in some poor unsuspecting customers sugar bowl but the Captain wouldn’t care and would put the green sugar in the customers sugar bowls. Disgusting, really!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:18:02 +0000

#4. is particularly good when it deals with seafood, and fish in general. Don’t order fish, oysters, crab, lobster, etc. on a Monday if you want it to be fresh– it’s likely been sitting around for a few days.

Another good idea is to ask an opinion of a restaurant from someone working in the food industry, ex. someone who sees the kitchens of restaurants. If the person figuratively turns green at mention of a place, perhaps you should avoid the place(restaurant, hotel…)

By: Maguro

Maguro — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:40:09 +0000

Fascinating post Going to look for the expensive item in the middle of the menu from now on!

By: banquet manager

banquet manager — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:00:17 +0000

Great info. I should know... So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager

By: angie

angie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:41:18 +0000

Hi Lucas

That’s a bit strange about not seeing the image as I’m a FireFox user as well. :S

The original article comes from Smart Money, and you can print it out by going to the Smart Money link in my article. When you’re on the article, scroll down to the bottom of the article and there’ll be a button that reads “Print This Article”.

By: Lucas SanCabo

Lucas SanCabo — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:00:22 +0000

This may seem strange but I couldn’t see the image above, I am using FireFox 2. anyways, what I read was very good and I enjoyed it. I was thinking about print it out, do I have permission to do that?

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