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Restaurant, not hair removal technique.
Anyway, went down on Sunday for lunch at this new place, Rio Brazilian Restaurant, around the Queensway (or was it QueensTown?) area after seeing the write up in the new paper. They were having 1-for-1 offers and hey, who doesn’t like 1-for-1s right?
Anyway, made our way there at noon (it’s next to a remand centre) and were promptly seated. The place looks pretty quaint and new, decor etc looked ok. There were 2 seating areas, basically indoors and outdoors and we were seated at the indoor area. However, the air-conditioning was somewhat lacking and it got progressively hotter as the mean progressed.
The salad bar was pretty standard stuff, but the biggest complaint would have been the actual main courses. The complaint? The staff basically started serving from the same table every time. For those of you who have gone to Brazilian restaurants will know that they serve you the meat on skewers that they bring to your table and basically carve up on the spot. Since we were physically the furthest possible point from the kitchen, the staff didn’t get around to our table like 75% of the time. At the end of 2 hours, we basically gave up (the kids were getting grouchy) and headed off.
I think a lot boils down to the fact that the staff seemed to be still working out the kinks in their operation. Plates were dropped with alarming frequency (at least 4-5 times while we were there), the servers weren’t really good at the carving (dropped fish on my brother in law’s pants) and of course what was mentioned in the previous paragraph as well.
Lessons learned:
1. Not going back there again, unless I’m not paying.
2. That’s the last time I take recommendations from the new paper.

I’m meeting some friends at a coffee house and everyone has ordered something nice except for me. For some odd reason, I haven’t ordered anything and the sight of the food makes me drool. But no matter how I wipe, I can’t seem to get my face clean and thats when I wake up and realise I’ve been drooling in my sleep again.

water, originally uploaded by wantunn.

Taken in the pool while taking my kids swimming today.
A reflection of the top of the water from the bottom.