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Skriven 2012-06-08 10:03:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: far flung 744
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-01-12  09:57 <=-

 ML>> by some guy who has parlayed it into the Zagat or Gayot of
 ML>> Singapore, only more reliable. People watch the site
 ML>> constantly; there's now a print edition that sells hotly.
 ML>> It's not a certainty that one will get a better meal from
 ML>> consulting it, but the likelihood of a good one goes up.
 NB>> There's always taste variance...

 ML> It's a pretty consistent palatal society, despite that its
 ML> heritage is Malay, Indian, Arab, Chinese, Indonesian, and
 ML> English.

Are you saying that wherever you go you get a fusion of all the varied
heritages, or that whatever you get it's consistently edible?  The
varied heritage itself sounds intriguing to me, but then, I like all
kinds of food...  :) 

 ML> I have had a few poor meals in Singapore, but no really
 ML> bad ones. There was one place where I tried a bowl of
 ML> medicinally herbed mutton organ soup - that was really weird;

That does sound wierd.

 ML> and at some of the fashionable places the food
 ML> is not so exciting (I guess you go for the buzz), but
 ML> if you spend under $5 or more than $50 you are likely
 ML> to get an exemplary meal.

Something to keep in mind, should I ever be in the position to try... ;)
My inclination would probably have been to stay below $5, anyway.

 ML>> Pain, except just at the edge or accidental, should be
 ML>> frowned on if not forbidden.
 NB>> Frowning upon is easy enough to do if ineffective in the main...
 NB>> forbidding is even harder, if not impossible, to enforce...  ;)

 ML> Up here (well, half a mile from here) the mayor, an odd kind
 ML> of Republican, is trying to ban restaurant sales of drinks
 ML> over 16 oz, exceptions made for diet drinks and milk-based
 ML> drinks. I too frown on supersized things, other than cuts of
 ML> beef, but legislation is hardly the way to go.

I'm with you on that...  (are you writing from near NYC, by chance?  I
heard tell of that one recently elsewhere)

 ML> On a more practical note, I wonder what will happen to the proper
 ML> pints of beer (20 oz) served in the pubs, let alone pitchers.
 ML> Perhaps they will have to go to the McSorley's method, which
 ML> involves serving beer only in 6 oz glasses, minimum initial
 ML> order being 6 units, refills 3 units.

I don't suppose that they'd also think to outlaw the free refills, or
mandate that glasses be filled to the brim with ice before adding any
liquid...  Maybe we shouldn't give them any ideas....  ;0

ttyl        neb

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