Sunday, April 24, 2011

Zealand Bah Kut Teh (Chu Char) @ Gurney Drive (till 3pm)

October Update :

This is like a cat and mouse game.The gatal set of cheetah mamas and leopard execs obviously like to cling out and show off their wild vines here.They simply can't resist eyeing one another.Can't stay away for long.
So if you don't spot them today,means you will eventually catch them checking each other out on other days.All the best on your safari hunt.

September :
Penang people have been obviously talking about and reading this blog.
The hot mamas have fled.
Nowadays one gets to see more desperado menfolk with plain janes waiting for a sideshow,both parties hoping in vain for a lunchtime eye candy MILF fling.


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One thing you should know about the diners here is that they are exceptionally snooty especially if they are female.
The men diners(most times equally well dressed as well) like to feast their eyes on the secretary/financial advisor types of hot mamas who chow down here.

Next this place has a bespectacled waitress that has the uncanny ability to bloat regular's heads sky high by treating them like Tan Sris,Datins or Datuks even though they might have zero moolah in their pockets.Non regulars will be snubbed by her mightiness and bundled in the same category as the bangla workforce in the kitchen.Bad.Bad service.
On the other hand,perhaps it is her way of networking.But she's pretty nasty to those she doesn't recognise.Except if you are caucasian.She will treat you like a Tun.One step higher than the locals.Sheesh.

Worst of all every dish comes out with a carpet of daun sup(the thicker stemmed chinese celery)which is pretty irritating,as if autumn had arrived and the trees were shedding.
Strangely both men and women (mostly in their mid thirties to early fourties)don't seem to notice it and chew it like they were contented goats munching on alfalfa.
They might think that they need the chlorophyll to convert their sour faces into sweet youthful sugar but I attribute it to the 7 year itch,and the need to be visually scratched by someone other than your own spouse....it's either that or everyone just got botoxed 3 weeks back.

Actually I just don't understand why this place attracts so many diners.Tastewise all their dishes rank ho hum.To be frank,the standard typical menu when translated into real dishes gracing your table,sucks big time.Nothing wonderful.
Almost at all times (unlike its night time counterpart) is the outlet filled to the brim.
Customers will park their car in Corner Club and swerve out here for the cheap chow.
Maybe that's why.
Cheap attracts the well heeled gatal eyed thirty something cheapskates.Or the fact that they now just need to pay $3 to park at Corner Club the once upon a time,one of the "in" places for the who's who of Penang.