Saturday, July 07, 2007 ;
4:18 AM
On an average, how long do you spend looking at a menu before you order? Think about it. Think about all the time wasted at staring at bright, neon lights, or peering into colourful and creative promises of good food found in menus.
When you know what to order/when you crave for something:
I'd still look at the menu first. Sometimes, I end up ordering other things, on top of the food I craved. Sometimes, I end up not ordering the food I craved for in the first place.
Menu-hogging: 10 -15 minutes in a sit-down restaurant, 5-8 minutes in a fast-food joint.
When you are trying something new:
Depending on the ratings/recommendations I've heard from friends/relatives, I'd vary my ordering speed.
Menu-hogging: 15 minutes min.
When the menu is presented in a very creative way/when food is personified or named as metaphors,etc:
Don't you just love normal, rich chocolate cakes named as MUD CAKES, a towering concoction of flavourful ice-cream named after American patriotism or a fat hotdog named JUMBO? And the pictures. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you get EXACTLY as what the pictures promised. Other times, you are left feeling, 'What the hell. Size DOES matter. '
And let's not forget about those really great-looking themed menus. Fish & Co's menus I particularly like. I like big-ass menus, those which cover your faces the moment you open them. It makes me feel like reading a Big-Book, and I LOVE Big-Books.
So, with all the picture-ogling, menu-flipping and the indulging in creative prose, I'd say, I have wasted a long time looking at menus.
Menu-hogging: 20 minutes min. ( I mean c'mon. Between exchanging gossip, getting waiters' attention for cold water and swapping opinions/suggestions of what to order, 20 minutes seem pretty reasonable to me.
On a side note, I have a lot of weddings to go to this month. I know any other bride-to-be would be looking at this dais, this colour for the tablecloths, the flowers and organising thoughts in their heads on what their weddings would be 'different', but I, for one, can't be bothered to do that. I'd cross the bridge when I get to it.
I'm not exactly creative in that sense. I can't visualise which colours go well together, or picture the whole wedding 'thing' in my head. I can't even decide what I want for a dais, and i'm getting quite bothered because the lady doing my dais has just sent me my receipt for the downpayment, and wants to discuss further on the dais decorations, cos she wants to prepare the materials and stuff.
What? ? It's not even end of July yet, and Dec seems sooo far away.
It seems soo far away.
It is far away. RIght?
play it softly, so gently♥
