And my theory scored another point the other day when my wife and I dined at this "Taiwan Bull" (台湾公牛) in Queensbay Mall (I won't even bother to tell you where to look for it).
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My wife ordered rice with minced meat. And it sure looked nice...
But tasted just like 600cc repackaged. And 600cc was not all that tasty to begin with.
I ordered stone-bowl rice with skewer-roasted beef. Again, looks pretty nice. And sizzling hot (the stone bowl kept the rice steaming hot until the last bite - which, to me, was rather a nuisance; I have what the Japanese call "a cat's tongue").
And how did it taste like? Well, it tasted exactly like what half-raw beef (which was OK) and raw carrot and raw cucumber and half-cooked soy bean sprouts and half-cooked tasteless spinach and raw egg should taste like. That was totally not worth the RM16.xx I had to pay for it.
All in all, it was RM35.xx (including drinks) badly spent.
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And speaking of the cost... the service was bad, too. In the whole restaurant, you get this one guy wearing bull-horned cap running around handing out menus. To place the order, you have to step over to the counter, and pay UP FRONT! It felt almost like an insult. =.=
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On the way home, I was kicking myself for not going over to the Golden Lake Hawkers Center (金湖饮食中心) for a nice steaming bowl of Yong Tau Foo (酿豆腐) instead.
Remember: good food should be delicious, not pretentious.
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