A $0.38 Feast

As mentioned, have to THANK Roentgen for organising this Post Exam Dinner for me. *bow*
(After finishing my blog post did I realised Roentgen had also blogged about his experience here)

Roentgen, who had some Crystal Jade vouchers to utilise before they expire next week, was very kind to share the vouchers with us tonight. Initially we were keen to try the Crystal Jade Palace at Takashimaya but we were totally snubbed at by the Manager-on-duty! I was extremely put off by his condescending attitude towards us when Roentgen enquired about the use of his vouchers and he was not at all keen to entertain us (issit because we were using vouchers and hence were not considered paying customers???!!!!). He was totally unfriendly (refused to accept the vouchers) and bordering towards rude (he was not even making eye contact with us but smiled so sweetly and cordially when some other customer walked in! totally UNACCEPTABLE customer service *tsk tsk*) I could almost feel my arteries near bursting point. We didn't want to bother wasting our time talking to him any further than we should and prolly destroy anymore good cells in our bodies, so we left and decided to "test" out the other Crystal Jade chains in the vicinity (There are a good 6 or more CJ chains in Taka itself as we found out from the directory list later in the evening). Interestingly enough, the other 2 CJ branches readily accepted the vouchers without any problems! To think the CJ Palace Mgr even boldly claimed that NONE of the other CJ branches would accept the vouchers! What insolence!

Anyway, I digressed ... just need to get this out of my system. Ok now, the happier stuff ... :)

Finally, we settled on this Crystal Jade Jiang Nan Cuisine which served Shanghainese, Jiang Nan etc. cuisine. We ordered quite a number of dishes which I'm too concussed now to recall any of their names. Some pictures for u to drool over ... unfortunately the food wasn't much to rave about, but the place & service were excellent. The restaurant even have a bar/lounge for drinking. Quite a nice place to hang out .. but a bit pricey ...

JT even got me a piece of swiss roll to reward me for passing my exam! Wow, so sweet!! THANKS JT!! :D
Amid all the interesting food sampling and nice, warm & wonderful company, we spent a good 2 hours just eating and yakking.

When the bill came (we were still wondering whether we had busted the voucher limit or under ordered), we were sooooo proud of ourselves to find out that we were only $1.52 over the voucher budget! IMPRESSIVE!!! With 4 of us, that works out to $0.38 per pax for this high-class meal! What a steal, all thanks to Roentgen!

Thanks again to JT, Taz & Roentgen for the wonderful company tonight. It really is such a nice feeling to have friends to rally around you and to celebrate some happy occassion with!! I felt so light-hearted today, not just because one stressor is out of my system, but more so because I have wonderful friends to share this joy with. Thanks for being around for me :)