The event ended with a 4-course Italian lunch at Avanti, Sunway Resort Hotel and Spa.
First up as always, the appetizer.
It wasn't fantastic, it was alright. I enjoyed the cheese (bottom left), the ham and mango (above it) was the best of the lot, and the salad was quite okay too. The ham and mango received a chorus of approval from all of us. There was this one piece of raw/smoked fish of some sort.
The Lady and I didn't touch ours, but C who was at our table said it was quite nice. After the appetizer was a bowl of mushroom soup. There's no picture for obvious reasons- it didn't appeal to sight, smell or taste.
And as lunch progressed, we came to realize that it was just going to go downhill from here.
The main course was served...
Braised spring chicken with cous cous and steam veg. The cous cous and steam veg was nice, not outstanding, but nice. The chicken however... sigh... it fell shy of being regugitated. After our main course, one of the senior staff came by and noticed that C did not finish hers (and neither did any of us). He made some unpleasant comments to us about it with a smirk on his face. Having spent a few years at a service industry myself, I take such careless comments from someone of such high rank as a grave offence. It was worse than serving bad food.
Dessert. This we were looking forward to.
Cheesecake. Before it arrived, they laid out our cutlery for the dessert- it was a full sized tablespoon. It was also the subject of a joke among us, the most brutal blow from the Lady saying that the cake must be awfully huge for them to give us such a big spoon. Valid point, one would expect a better equipped restaurant for a place like this.
Lady and C enjoyed their cheesecake tremendously, but I didn't take more than 2 bites. So when the Lady decided that she wanted more, she attacked at my cheesecake before recoiling, saying "your's taste different, it must be from a different batch", and she ate no more.
How could they screw up a media luncheon? So unwise.
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