Ordinary Gweilo

I see that my esteemed colleague Ulaca is recommending Jasmine (a Chinese restaurant in Festival Walk) to unsuspecting readers. 

Perhaps I took against this restaurant because I was quite satisfied with its predecessor, Zen, which upped and left for The Peak one day (one day they cheerfully took our reservation and then called backed a few minutes to enquire whether, er, we knew that they were now at The Peak.  No, we didn’t.).

Perhaps I took against it for being wilfully trendy.

Though actually what really annoyed me was Large Plate Small Table syndrome.  OK, I can accept that Maxims group want to pack in as many tables as they can into the smallest area possible.  What I just don’t get is how you can do that and then serve dishes on large (and eccentrically-shaped) dishes so that you have to eat each dish before the next one arrives.

Didn’t go back.