Mother Day celebration

This is my second mother day with my darling. However, Adelle still doesn't know it's mother day so no special surprise from her. Lately, i have started to let her attempt to draw with crayon and she can draw pretty well! Hopefully by next year, she can draw something for me lah! Hehehee... :P

So did i spend the day? We went to Plaza Sin to settle hubby starhub subscriptions. We also planned to go for dinner with my parents thus, 1 week before mother day, i called up and booked a table @ House of Seafood . We r keen to try out the seafood there cos we often drive passed Serangoon Rd(Off Serangoon Garden) and saw a lot of people eating, so we tot it must be nice rite?!? Well, the whole thing turn out to be a horrible experience!

Horror 1
We reached the open air restaurant at 7.30pm and informed the waitress that we have made reservation. Guess what? The waitress then start to find seats for us!! Wah cannot take this mannn... reserve still need to get waitress to find seats then why take our reservation in the first place?!??! Simply can't understand.

10 mins later, the waitress came back and tell us to go to table # 10 later cos the people are paying and leaving soon. However, we waited for 30mins and the people were still happily eating and there was no sign of them paying at all! It gets on my mum nerves and my mum started to look around for other tables while i questioned the waitress how come it takes 30mins and yet the people is still stuck at the table. She couldn't answer me and keep telling me that soon soon!

Few mins later, my mum managed to find a table that people have settled the bill and they let us have the table.

Horror 2
We asked abt 5 waitresses + cleaners to clean the table but none of did so. They keep telling us ok ok but never return. Finally after 15 mins, we managed to get a cleaner who return with a pail and clean up the mess and put up a clean sheet of table cloth.

Horror 3
Next, we asked the waitresses to take order. As usual, one waitress say ok and made the request via the walkie talkie but none came back to take order. We approached another 5 waitress and waited for 30mins but NONE came. All we saw was there are many furious customers who were making noise/complaints at the kitchen. They were questioning when their order will be served and how come some people came late but got their food first while they waited for 2 hrs but NO food at all. Finally, we managed to get 1 waitress to take order and first thing hubby asked was - can you check with your kitchen staff, how long it takes to serve the food. The lady went to kitchen and returned telling us that it will be 2 hrs!!!!

Thumbs DOWN!
All in all, we wasted 1+ hour waiting to be seated, waiting for the table to be cleared and getting a waitress to attend to our order! It was 8.40pm and all of us are hungry so we decided to leave the stupid place and look for food elsewhere.

We drove to macpherson area for the fish head steamboat and the crowd seemed to have left. So we managed to find a table within secs and place order at around 9pm. However, we only get our food at 9.30pm... *FAINT* We never knew that a simple dinner ended up to be a torturous experience, simply waiting for food. What a unforgettable mother day celebration! :(

Lessons learnt
1. Don't bother to go to House of Seafood - Terrible service
2. Don't attempt to arrange mother day dinner on the actual day