RM90 meal

Its christmas and new year festive season now. Everyone is in holidays mood and waiting for the countdown moment. I received 3 gift exchange event this week. The 1st one was last night, with Huey Wen and her friends; 2nd one today, with my colleagues within same department; 3rd one tomorrow, with Love forum friends.

Well, last night gift exchange was a bit funny. Me and Huey Wen left lab and reached her friend, Kok Lim's home around 6.30pm. After short while Chris came. We departed after Kok Lim was ready. All 4 of us sat in Kok Lim's car. Along the journey Kok Lim and Chris were arguing and teasing each other, made the journey full of laugh and noise, LOL.

In the car they still arguing where to have our dinner and exchange gift. After 10 minutes of arguement we decided to go Mr.Ho Dining (in fact i never heard the restaurant name) beside Northam Hotel. When we reached there i saw its a small building with europe style of design. Kok Lim parked his car outside and we walked across the car park towards the restaurant. Along the walk i noticed that there is no 'Mr.Ho Dining' signboard. I am puzzled and asked Kok Lim regarding this, but he seem puzzled as well. There are 2 signboard there 'Hardwrick' and 'Apple Computing center'. I thought Mr.Ho Dining is a alternative name people used to refer to it.

Before we reached the entrance, 2 waiters already came out and open dorr for us. As we go into the building, we saw the environment is very nice - with dim lights, candles, christmas trees and festive decoration. Ya, we knew that something wrong.

After sat down Kok Lim asked the supervisor why the decoration changed, and then we only knew that Mr.Ho Dining was moved back to KL and that is a new restaurant call 'Hardwrick' (anyway, i hope i spell the name correctly). Well, we were the first customers last night, the whole restaurant was empty. The funniest part was everyone's expression changed after looked at the menu ==" except for soup, the cheapest stuff is RM25! Set dinner starts with RM78+. Most main course starts from RM50+. The cheapest drink is RM10. Sweat......

Kok Lim started gossip with Chris as he knows that Chris and Huey Wen are thrifty ladies that never ate expensive food like this. He proposed to them we can leave if they felt the meal is too expensive. Anyway, the ladies said that it was shame if left the place after looked at the menu. And since they never try high class restaurant before, we decided to stay.

The service is not bad, the waiters are all trained with knowledge of western meal procedures and serving. The order of course, the placement of spoon, knife, and others are strictly followed. Since i knew the meal would be expensive, i decided to take the most expensive course - grilled beef steak with half done.

We finished everything around one hour time, due to the way they serve - following classic western food order. Along the time some customers came. All the customers seem are rich people with nice gown, expensive blouse, shirt, skirt.... we were the only table with t-shirts, jeans, some more we came straight after work, without bath and make up..... really funny... hehehe

We took around RM250, including 15% tax. My part was the most expensive, RM90. Yeah, really sweat. I think this is the most expensive meal i ever take for myself alone. But the most expensive meal i ever paid was last year christmas's eve lunch, which i had together with LT. I forgot how much was that but i think is more than RM120 for both of us. It was really one of the sweetest moment i ever had :D

Merry christmas!