Fusion restaurants...

are too over-rated. Seriously. I was at Bequadro's, this Mexican, Italian and Spanish food cuisine restaurant for Dinesh's birthday celebration. The menu looked irresistably good, they even had risotto and paella. I was comtemplating which to order for a long time, and finally Jia Jia Binx chose the paella and I got the seafood risotto. I was starving, it better be good!

To my utter disappointment, my risotto turned out to be their "Italian" version of plain fried rice with cheese and cream. Man. They even had the nerve to use frozen mixed vegetables instead of fresh garden vegetables. For the price I paid, it was horrible. I even tried to enhance my dish with lots of parmesan cheese and black pepper. Did not help.

So, if you claim to be a fusion restaurant, your chef should be at least better than those in the other restaurants that only specialize in one cuisine ie Italian/Chinese/Spanish. I mean, you are familiar with 3 different types of cuisines. That is a great deal. But if all the dishes you produce are not even up to normal standards, then certainly being a master of one is better than a jack of all trades and master of none. And most of all the fusion restaurants I have visited are all the same. Well, maybe its their way of attracting more customers, a much greater variety of food, and all in one restaurant. However, the restaurant was empty except for our table and another that only came later on. So, maybe its to attract gullible people like us. Ha ha.

The only favourable outcome from the dinner was the company and the fact that it was Dinesh's bday. We had a fun time laughing and cracking jokes, heehee and Shafiq played his saxophone for the birthday boy. "Happy Birthday" and "Pink Panther". How sweet.


Denise, Dinesh and me

My housemate, Jia Jia

The whole gang, the 2 guys in front are Han& Wei Sern

Oh, darling Eunice did not come. She thought it was tomorrow. Sigh, nevermind,... we will celeb with her another time. Ok thats all for now dears, I have a endocrine presentation next week and I hate endocrinology...I have to go meet Denise later at her place to discuss the details (puke) and come up with our presentation, which has to be good.