Is it a common occurence in restaurants to be given a medium-sized bowl of mee when you haven’t specified anything? Like when giving your order to the waitress, you tell her you want a bowl of mee together with some yong tau foo and you never actually said anything about the size of the bowl of mee. Is it normal for the waitress to *upgrade* your bowl to medium??

Waddehell, right?

I mean, surely that is not a very good way to endear yourself to your customers. Logically speaking, if I’m that frigging hungry in the first place, I would have told the waitress that I want a medium or even big sized bowl. I obviously won’t just keep quiet and let her guess at my level of hunger – I certainly wouldn’t put my poor stomach on the line while hoping that I lucked out and my waitress can mind read!

It’s not the price of it – though of course paying extra on seven bowls of mee is kinda sakit in its own way – but it’s the principle of it. People should stop trying to act smart and do the honourable and right thing for once.

Now, thanks to the fact that she either intentionally or unintentionally (benefit of the doubt laa) fleeced us, we’re never going back to that restaurant.

Rule of thumb, lady – you want to keep your customers, not chase them away! D’oh!!