Monday, February 7, 2005

The fool who follows another fool, is the greater fool. Or maybe not. Maybe we should change it to "The fool who queues up behind another fool, is the greater fool." Um.. no offence to the guy who was infront of me, its just a figure of speech : p Me mom didn't cook last night and i arrived at Serangoon Central after work to look for some food.



I was thinking of what to eat, when i saw this long snaking queue of people at a mixed food rice stall. The people ranged from single doggie bags to buying enough to feed entire countries. My initial thought was, if everyone is queueing up, then the food must be real fabulous.



After queueing for an eternity, when it was my turn to point at the food, i pointed at a lovely fat otah (I really don't know how to describe otahs physically or ingredient-wise). The auntie then casually mentioned to me that the otah costs $3 (SGD). And i went like "Huh!" But i bought the otah anyway. Adding vege and one egg, then meal came up to $4.50. I was like, this is a branded coffee shop or something, which explains why everyone is queueing up, not because of cheap and good but because of expensive and good.



Anyway, the otah wasn't so bad, but somehow, i think the food in Serangoon Central coffee shops are like waayyyyyyy expensive compared to other coffee shops.

2 comments:

  1. $3 for 1 otah! How big can the otah be to cost so much? Maybe it's made from ikan kurau. Toa Payoh has nasi lemak for $1.90. It consists of rice, chilli, ikan billis, chicken, cucumber and an egg. I've yet to try it :Þ

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  2. Ya know those otahs that costs $1 each? The otah i bought was around slightly more than 2x that size. Um... I know the numbers don't quite match... Oh well..

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