Waiter, there’s too much food on my table

Waiter, there's too much food on my table

There is a restaurant where you get rewarded for being a nice customer.

Or at least, for being a customer who is nice enough to take time out to talk to the waiter about our HTC Touch phone which he was eyeing and wanting to ask about. When Naomi obliged by saying a couple of things about the phone and showing off the use-your-thumb to flick through the interface thing, the waiter (sorry dude, didn’t ask your name) pulled out a chair and sat with us to talk about the phone further.

I learned a couple of things as we chatted.

First, that customers are seldom as friendly as we were last night, and they wouldn’t take the time to explain a phone’s functions to a waiter, said the waiter.

Second, that you need to press the button on top of the phone when you make or take a call, so your cheek won’t anyhowly press the touch screen’s buttons.

But, no, it’s not because we were given a hefty ‘friendly customer’ discount that I’m plugging The Rice Table Indonesian Restaurant. I’m mentioning it because the food’s really quite good, and you get a lot of it for $20 per person.

Rijstaffel is the Dutch word for Rice Table, and it used to be popular only in the Netherlands.

At a rijstaffel restaurant, small portions of twenty different dishes are plonked on your table for you to eat yourself to death. You will like about 13 to 14 of those dishes, and then you will eat yourself to death. That’s how the Indonesians fought off the Dutch in their war of independence. They fed most of their colonial masters to death in 1945 and the surviving Dutch went home to legalise marijuana and prostitution.

If you must know, I learnt history from watching beauty pageants.

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9 responses to “Waiter, there’s too much food on my table”

  1. nadnut Avatar

    that looks great! hmmm, shall try rice table one day!

  2. nadnut Avatar

    that looks great! hmmm, shall try rice table one day!

  3. James Chia Avatar

    “small portions of twenty different dishes are plonked on your table for you to eat yourself to death.”

    Ha! If it’s good, I won’t mind eating myself to death! I’ve been wanting to try this but I can’t really take very spicy stuff. You had dinner buffet? Was it very spicy?

  4. James Chia Avatar

    “small portions of twenty different dishes are plonked on your table for you to eat yourself to death.”

    Ha! If it’s good, I won’t mind eating myself to death! I’ve been wanting to try this but I can’t really take very spicy stuff. You had dinner buffet? Was it very spicy?

  5. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    Hi James, it’s not really a buffet proper. They plonk 20 different dishes on your table, and you can ask for refills of the dishes you like. It wasn’t really spicy, and some dishes are a bit sweet. Flavourful Indonesian food is how you can describe it.

  6. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    Hi James, it’s not really a buffet proper. They plonk 20 different dishes on your table, and you can ask for refills of the dishes you like. It wasn’t really spicy, and some dishes are a bit sweet. Flavourful Indonesian food is how you can describe it.

  7. James Chia Avatar

    Ah great not very spicy. Shall try it this weekend. Thanks!

  8. James Chia Avatar

    Ah great not very spicy. Shall try it this weekend. Thanks!

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