Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Tree Monkey @ Teluk Bahang


These so called Eco warriors aka Superduperkiamsiapers, deviced a clever way to work up your appetite, by making you walk up a slope that is bad for high heels and the aged.
Mighty good for the healthy.Just bad news for the wheelchair bound.
Get it? Make sure you are fit first before you come all the way from AS or SP.

For the prices they charge there is no help offered,no ushers,a very bad first impression indeed, to begin with.
Like a DIY,No Frills place with staff more suitable for a foodcourt at prices that want to challenge Batu Ferringhi tourist open air (save on air cond bill mah...) makan places.
If you still don't understand,coming to eat here is like going to a Thai resort style Outward Bound,Urban Sakai camp in Lumut,with obstacle number one,a small steep hill designed to make you sweat and flea market toilet that posesses the aura like the one featured in Karak,the semi pontianak horror movie.
So please,try to hold your popot and dump your mess somewhere else or you might agree that Tree Monkey like Outward Bound,fosters the importance of team spirit by making you make aware that you should all go together,holding garlic, to the toilet at the back, while chanting some hocus pocus spells to keep away wandering spirits.

Basically you are paying for maintainence of the stunning leafy half hidden sea views,
not doing so great slow moving giftshop,
'natural' smelling ewwww toilet constructed from salvaged items,
upkeep of the not getting enough sunlight spice gardens that consists of pathetic potted plants and plots,grown side by side with shop plants that grew larger in the open space yet look like they were rescued from the florists dustbin,
office with second hand salvation army furniture
and the foreign staff manning the cool treetop environment
so that Tarzan can romance his Jane.

Since I still cannot get over it,I want to talk about the toilet once again.
So kanasai if you wan lausai.
Aiyo,the bowl also dunno get from where.Geli.
Looks like they salvaged the toilet bowl from a roadside dumpster and the door from a haunted kopitiam or ghost town.Very geli.

The cutlery they use looks new,same with the restaurants Thai resort style furnitures.
But you never know.
I think I can only safely vouch for the tissues ...it is probably one of the only things that are guaranteed  NEW and UNUSED in this place.
You can never be too careful .

As if that is not bad enough,you not only pay for the experience with cash or credit, but also with your own blood in kind,as you give sporadic donations for the duration that you are seated,while assuming the time honoured role of playing philantrophist to jungle mosquitoes that seek fresh platelets.

Summary :

Thai foods               weird combo between south and north east.
Deep fried foods     come soaked in glistening oil
Cold drinks            are served almost warm
Hot drinks              warm by the time they get to your table.
Mocktails               everyone orders this,nobody finishes it
Food presentation good
Food taste              conflicting
Dessert presentation below par
Dessert taste          ordinary,not worth the extra $$
Service                   irritating if you get Miss Jungle Frown
Final Bill                EXPENSIVE
Toilet                     Unlike the 3 monkeys,you'll See evil n Speak evil,
                               cos Here is very the evil