Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Bye, Young!

Paul left on my 3rd day. Young left at the end of my 3rd week (18 Dec). Who is the next one who'll leave after my 3rd month as a Billy Bombers waitress??? Uh-oh!!!!

I was on afternoon shift yesterday, and since customers only start flowing into the restaurant around the evening, Jasmine (another manager) made me follow her into the kitchen to try out the different kinds of garnishes, flavourings and sauces. Reason being, she wants me to be able to tell customers the exact flavours of the food that I'm serving them.

THAT WAS THE WORST ASSIGNMENT OF ALL! I'd rather polish the toilet, top up the chilli sauce and get my fingers all sticky, polish the tables and do whatever chore there is than let my taste buds suffer from all that weird stuff that landed on my tongue.

The first item that Jas made me down was some pickled vegetable called Gherkin. Now what the hell is that?! I thought broccoli was the world's most awful tasting vegetable BUT I WAS WRONG! Gherkin is a thousand times worse. Sour yet bitter... holy crap~! To sum it all up, it was disgusting.

Then there were french beans, chicken gravy, black pepper gravy, homemade tomato sauce, horlicks powder (whatever for???), SALSA and Jas nearly made me try their coleslaw!!! Eeewww... no way was I gonna consume all that mayonnaise. Not now, not ever! I'm a hardcore mayonnaise hater. Anyway, the reason why I bolded salsa (SALSA) is because it was the one side-dish that made my stomach churn.

I seriously don't know how to describe it's taste to you. After I swallowed it, I looked at Jasmine and told her, "Wah! Hen nan chi! Zhe shi cao ji nan chi de!" (wah! horrible! it's the most horrible thing to eat!)

After that, my face was becoming green (or so I think). Cause the kitchen staff were beginning to stop their cookings and look my way. Jas took me to the freezer (kitchen staff were peeking through the doorway but NONE OF THEM could save me). At this point of time, I was in agony man! I kept bugging those guys (yes, kitchen staff are all guys) to do something.

Sadly, none of those FULL GROWN "men" could do anything because they did not have a name-tag which said "Manager".

No choice, went to the freezer and Jas took out the tub of American Chilli. THANK GOODNESS I'VE GIVEN UP EATING RED MEAT! Otherwise, I'd probably be asked to chew on a spoonful of A.Chilli which contains pieces of beef (ew). But sadly, no excuse was good enough to prevent the next food item from going into my mouth.

It was "sauerkraut". Ok, if Gherkin was the devil, Sauerkraut would be the devil's dominant wife who henpecks him.

I couldn't bear the taste of it. It only took a split second for me to spit it out onto my palm. Oh yeah, it was THAT bad. To the Billy Bombers diners who order "Classic Reuben", WHAT HAS GONE INTO YOUR HEAD?! Only sick people who allow themselves to eat sauerkraut. Oh for goodness sake!

Enough about yesterday's torture (actually, it's more of a "must learn or you die" lesson), let's talk about my new friend and ex-colleague, Young Tay.

No doubt I've known him for only a short period of time, he's taught me lots of stuff. The 2 days which I shared a cab with him (along with Mag & Nicky), he told me how I should go the extra mile for customers. Like on Friday when one of the customers gave me a feedback that "the toilet very dirty", Young cleaned it all up, put on a pair of gloves and dug out whatever was choking the toilet bowl.

And who can forget the day when Su Yong and him kept asking me to serve milkshakes and malts to the diners. According to Mr Tay, everyone has his or her own technique of serving milkshakes and he wanted me to discover my own. Hmm... maybe I've already developed my original way of pouring out that milky goo since it was nothing but successes yesterday!

It's been nice knowing him. But got one less person to share cab fare with... hahahaha! Now, I can't wait for the Christmas party of the night of 24th decemeber. Whoooo!!!!