Restaurant food tastes mediocre at best with unduly marked up
prices.
Given the obscene food quality (and quantity) to price ratio,
it's arguable that no customer service or ambience, however good,
can make dining out a pleasant experience.
Even then, customer service is plain shit nowadays. Everyone
still pays a 10% service charge to be treated like shit.
Last week, I had a traumatic experience (which I won't describe
in detail) at Asian Kitchen involving a rude waiter who was
basically bitter about everyone getting ahead of him in life while
he had to work a dead-end, shitty job with no prospects whatsoever
for slave wage on a Sunday afternoon just to pay for his next
installment of handphone bill, comic book rental fees and game
arcade escapades because he was too obtuse and thus unmotivated to
improve himself.
Yesterday, I had a plate of nasi padang with fish fillet and
potatoes at the NUS canteen for a grand total of $1.80.
Guess which meal spoilt my mood for the rest of the week, gave
me diarrhoea and made me feel almost as stupid as said waiter
inherently is.
Obviously your choice of restaurants suck and you are no food
connoisseur (though I'm not either lol).
As for your preferred choice of "restaurants" to eat out at,
I think if you were to consider "Asian Kitchen" worthy as a
"restaurant", you were simply stupid. Get over it.
As for the proper restaurants,
all of which are considered to be "fine dining", as opposed to
something as pathetic as "Jack's Place", which counts as one of the
lousiest restaurants in Singapore from all that I have
seen,
all of which most definitely do not have waiters like you have just
complained about; such service is simply unheard of,
and all of which have simply ridiculously high prices,
so obviously, the only reason people "eat out" at proper
restaurants that are completely unlike what you described, is for
the status, flaunting their wealth and perhaps their strange taste
for certain kinds of foods.
As for me,
I eat out simply to enjoy some time with family or friends,
regardless of how crappy the service is, regardless of how
outrageous the prices are and regardless of obscene food
quality.
Though if you are actually going to a proper "restaurant", you
wouldn't be facing any of the three problems stated above.
Then again, who the hell has time and money for a proper
"restaurant", moreover one that we can't even pronounce its name
properly?
Settle for something like what GOF mentioned above, or maybe simple
meal @ The Astons? Asian Kitchen doesn't count as a restaurant
already imho.
