WriLoLo: April 2013

Monday, April 1, 2013

Airasia's false marketing

On my flight to Kota Kinabalu today on Airasia, I ordered lunch in the form of a spaghetti and meatballs set which was supposed to come with a Minute Maid and two packets of Loacker wafers. This was stated in the flight menu. I also noted that Airasia's food prices has gone up about 25% in price, as previously hot meals were about RM12, but now they sell for RM15 (not counting set meals), which is a big time price increase for super small meals which I can finish in 3 bites.
Anyway, I was a bit surprised my set meal came only with one Loacker wafer instead of two as stated in the menu. And when I asked the attendant why I only got one packet, he said its not for catering, or some weird answer like that. I looked through the menu again, and did not see any fine print mentioning two packets of the wafers are only provided under certain conditions. Not that the extra wafer packet is a big deal, considering it's a pathetically small wafer, but it's the principle of the thing. If it's advertised on the menu, I expect to get everything stated in the set, no weird excuses.
Hence, I would like say that Airasia is officially guilty of false marketing. Tony Fernandez, you should be ashamed of yourself!

Fugly shoes

I saw someone wearing this pair of shoes while boarding a plane. The only reasons why I guess anyone would wear such a pair of shoes is:
A) He/She is completely colourblind
B) He/She has a fantasy of becoming Aquaman (hence wings on feet)
C) He/She gets a kick out of torturing people like me who are tempted to laugh at the shoes but can't coz it's rude.
Whatever the reasons, those shoes are an abomination to the rest of shoekind.

In House cafe, Taipan - Awesome menu, ok food

This new cafe opened up within the past couple of years or less in Taipan (hard to keep track with all the shops that come and go in that area), along same row as Berry cake house. The thing that most impressed me about the place was the menu. It's a seriously nice looking menu, with lots of huge and nicely placed photos of the food, making everything look absolutely tempting. And there is a wide selection of food, ranging from local to western, Yong tau fu and bubble tea. It took me ages to decide on what to eat coz' everything looked really good. In the pictures, that is.
In reality, the food was not that great. Not bad, but not great. We tried three types of noodles. My dad tried the beef kuey teow which came in a big portion.

I tried Shanghai noodle with chicken chop, which was not particularly memorable.

And my mum ate some noodle with duck, which also not great.

What was pretty good was the Yong tau fu.

I also tried the bubble tea which was pretty good but tasted a bit like the powder type rather than natural flavouring.

Overall, I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10. The extra 0.5 for the captivating menu, which unfortunately made the food look more promising than it could deliver.

The moral of the story is, don't judge the food by the menu! :-P