Today, once again I get to blog something about Singapore. I mean I live here right? Besides it will be a month until I can go away to some other place to hopefully snap some cool photos to showcase in my gallery. And well, the truth is that there are very unique - sometimes exotic - things that you can find in this land of shopping centers.
The culinary experience is quite wide so I will rip it apart and focus on the daily lunch time and I will go even more specific.
Where I come from, when you walk into a food court or self service restaurant you basically get your food first then look for a table. Of course, if you are with someone else usually one finds a seat and the other one gets the food. Teamwork!
Well, Singapore is different. Here your buddy can be a 'tissue'. Yes, a tissue or more common a little pack of tissues. This has become the booking system for excellence in Singapore's food courts.
Some foreigners will figure this after, which sometimes results with a local mumbling a few Chinese words that I'm sure are not very friendly. Good thing is that violence is very rare around here.
And well, I mean the first times I even thought those were the napkins or the wet tissues they give in some sushi restaurants. I could not be more mistaken.
But what if you have no tissues? Well, there are alternatives. You can use your newspaper. Singapore is supposed to be pretty safe and low crime but no one leaves valuables sitting there to show the table is taken; even if the counter is 5 steps away.
I don't get used to this system yet but maybe that because I have sticked to the 'send your buddy to find a table' policy which by the way results 'foreigner' proof.
Bon Appetite!
The guy in the picture is not my buddy but he hangs around the local food court (hawker) every now and then. Though he is a good representation of some of the people that I work with.
Yeah, i see the likeness. But i don't have anywhere near as many tattoos......
Nice system, I wish it worked here, the mall in Honolulu is always packed with tourists, mostly Asians (Japanese). I wonder if they have the same system and we can start implementing it.