Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Birthday lunch was a shambles this year but very fun all the same

Suna found out why: "I would go back to that crazy restaurant with those beautiful views. Just for the surprises! I actually had a friendly chat with the owner on Monday. He told me they had two kitchens - one of them filled with Thai staff that speak no English. (Which explains why Mark got his starter and main together.) The owner designed that complicated menu system so wasn't too receptive to any suggestion that it should be simplified. And he said he needed a good restaurant manager but couldn't afford one. And could only afford untrained staff whose English wasn't good enough to distinguish between 'scallops' and 'escalopes'. So I don't hold out too much hope for any radical improvements in the future! But it added a lot of crazy fun to the lunch!"

And Oksana is still waiting for her apple juice!

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