How Chinese can help you in an eating-enjoyment environment

It never occurred to me the importance of Chinese.

Lemme elaborate.

I have never saw the need to really learn Chinese despite me being a Chinese myself, I am terrible at understanding the language, failed my O level chinese and even got ungraded for Oral.

Fantastic eh?

It was only on Saturday did I realize how important Chinese is in my daily life...and the only time it really mattered was during a session that involved.......er...Food. =)
So Colin, Hans, Xinn and I went for dinner last saturday and we decided to try out the new restaurant at Suntec called "Tang Dian Wang"
Some of their stuff seemed pretty interesting, so we decided to give it a shot, and ordered what we thought might be some good dishes like their fried beehoon and glutinous rice.

The fried beehoon at my coffeeshop tasted better, and came with luncheon meat if u pay $1.60....the one at TDW cost me $5.80, and had nothing much to offer.

The glutinous rice looked like a lot, until we realised below it was heap of leaves which made up for its shear size...cheated!
The only thing we really enjoyed was their dumplings in chili oil, which were rather rad.

We concluded that the place was kinda horrible and not to go there again. But then we noticed the next table having soup which smelled really good and were regretting not trying that one instead.

Then Xinn kinda shook her head and mentioned "didn't you read the restaurant's name? it's Tang Dian Wang....tang....soup....they specialise in soup."

The three of us non-Chinese-speaking-Chinese people had blank expressions written all over our faces like 3 idiots who just realized our grave mistake.

See? Chinese does help afterall...maybe next time I'll consider learning the chinese language...but just the words that I will use often enough....like "Char Siew"...."Bao Bing"...."Mai Dang Lao"...etc.

Andrew