Saturday, August 05, 2006

Unhealthy Brunei

Today we visited the new fast food restaurant opened at the Mall, lets call it D.C.

Our first impression of the place is that its really nice and looks very clean (hey.. its new afterall).

Then when one looks at the menu… its all about chicken and fried items and with a few grilled items.

We ordered the chicken burger – fried chicken burger and we tried the grilled chicken. For the chicken burger, it’s just like any normal chicken breast burger (KFC's zinger's burger). As for the grilled chicken, I’m suspicious that they didn’t really marinate it, just pour the sauce on top of the chicken, after its grilled. Reminds me of Nandos Chicken.

I’m proud to say that the cashier, a Bruneian, was quite friendly and the staff there looks very hard-working.

Then when its time to wash your hand… you see that the wash basin is very unique. However, some people were “struggling” how to shut off the water tap after using it and because of its unique design and maybe something is already loose, it’s not properly shut, you can see water flowing out into the sink – wasting water.

Then when the grilled chicken arrived, the plate was so huge that my 1/4th chicken looked so small in that plate. I just don’t understand why the staff don’t just put the coleslaw on the plate and instead have to use a plastic container for it. It’s a waste to use the container as it costs the management $$ and it increases waste and pollution to the environment as plastic is environmentally un-degradable. Then, what is with the paperbags for fried chips? Why waste all the papers for that? When it comes to tissues, they were quite stingy...

Bruneians I guess should be taught how to eat less chicken… we have far too much fried chicken fast food restaurant – KFC, Ayamku, A. Ayam , one at Sengkurong which I cant recall the name and now, a new one at the Mall.

Food items to be served to the public should be generous with vegetables and less on the mayonnaise or condensed or ideal milk. Fizzy drinks should be discouraged while drinks such as Ice Tea or something like that should not be too sweet…

Sigh… what's the latest restaurant to be open in Brunei I wonder….

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