Poisoned!

Went with bf to a wedding dinner last night at Swissotel Stamford (Westin). Indeed as what my bf says, it can be rather confusing and daunting to find the way to the right ballroom esp if you happened to be attending a dinner in one of the smaller ballrooms ie. one big ballroom split into 3 wedding dinners. Gosh, the common sight is seeing guests hopping around to get into the right one.

That said, we did manage to find ours, thanks to the hotel ushers :) It was a simple event, but yet you can easily detect the romance in the air! I just love weddings - ohhh you can see the love and bliss in the eyes of the wedded couple. And that never fails to add warmth and romance :)

To review the ballroom and the food - i can just say it's of 3 star quality. It's rather different from the Bridal Show held at the hotel last year - we went to scout the banquet offerings and found the food pretty good - they even provided a dessert chef to customise for us any dessert we would like to have. I found the idea refreshing.

But to our disappointment, yesterday's food is slightly below average. Nothing impresses. But they managed to amuse us:
1) the lady who poured the chinese tea was most amusing: she poured it from the pot vertically such that everytime she poured, she did it with a violent splash. Scary!
2) the cold dish was a self-service dish, when the 2nd dish came - shark's fin soup, the waitstaff had no idea who or how to portion it. so she went off and ended with a debate with 3 persons who should be the one. Eventually a lady came and timidly served us.
3) the next dish scallops with asparagus was served by another boy: who served the 1st few plates with 6 scallops, and the last few with one or two. He looked so inexperienced that we offered our help to turn the table wheel and push over the plates one by one.
4) yam ring: this lady is so amusing and yet so endearing. she nicely portioned out all the ingredients in the yam ring and then she stopped. She just gazed at the yam ring on the big plate. She looked so helpless that my bf's uncle offered her a knife for cutting. She took it but continue staring at the ring fearfully. Then came her supervisor who decided to help her out. She continued to stand there holding the knife, so i suggested to her maybe she would like to return the knife to the uncle instead, which she did.
5) Ee-Mee:

Nothing wrong, but this is my first time i had ee-mee served on a plate instead of the usual bowl. And when dessert came (mango sago), he placed plates again, and we laughed.

Okay now you may wonder why this posting is titled 'Poisoned!' That's because i had food poisoning as a result of the food at this dinner. Sigh, visited a doc this morning and ended up spending my entire sunday at home. And i'm still suffering from the painful effects now :(

I'm just happy we didn't end up choosing Swissotel Stamford for our wedding!