Tuesday, December 18, 2007

American Size of Stomach

I've been to America and got a rough idea about people's appetite there. For example, in McDonald's, a burger is about 1.5 times the size of a same one in Singapore. Yet I saw a guy swallowed two within 1 minute with one on each hand. A separate order of coke in another restaurant is 30cm tall. And I had to take away nearly the whole main course of a 20 dollar sea food order, just after finishing the soup and appetizer. This is no kidding. In doubt, try this one!

Cafe' Cartel, at Plaza Singapura. We went there for dinner on the way back from a Greek sculpture exhibition in the national museum. Five of us, two hadn't had lunch at all, another two had some light snack, in order to meet our meeting schedule. We walked in, already near half death out of starving and exhaustion.

HQ had been there before, he advocated the flagship "pork ribs", depicted in the picture below, without mentioning the doze. I ordered steak for a change of other 4 serves of pork ribs. The steak came first, normal sized 15x7 cm2 piece, plus some chips and vegetable, good for me. After another 10 minutes, the pork ribs finally showed up. Everyone's jaw dropped to the necks. They are not pork ribs, but piano boards (PB)! My steak was less than 1/5 of each PB, with the same price... To close, two of our usual big stomachs never felt full before, in a status without lunch, crashed upon this. One had to ask me to finish some leftovers, another one swept the whole, bearing the pain of standing up with a exploding belly for the rest of the day.