Are you generally a shy or an outgoing person? For me, I’m definitely a shy person. Not terribly shy but if you ask me to go out and speak in front of a crowd of people I wont do it. But I have definitely come a long way. Not only have I improved tremendously but I can safely say that I can talk in front of an audience now. Still scared but not impossible.
I do know of some people that are so shy that they wont even go and order food for themselves. In Malaysia we have lots of hawker stalls around and the only way you can eat is that you go over to their stalls and tell them what you want. They won’t go over to your table because first they’re busy cooking themselves and second, it’s just not them.
And worst of all, some of these hawker boss are fierce and grumpy people. Especially those that know they serve good food. Not only do they bark at you for no reason, they scold you too if you order the wrong thing or ask too many questions.
Can’t blame a person if he/she doesn’t have the guts to order food from them.
I have a friend that would rather starve then to go over and order food. Poor gal. Luckily she grew out of it or else she would have disintegrate into the air. Too thin!
The thing about hawker stalls are you never know where the food comes from. As in you won’t know whether the food that the stalls serve are nice or not. So the only thing that you do is you observe what other people are eating. And if it looks nice most likely it is nice.
You can definitely judge a food by it’s cover!
Unfortunately some food courts are so huge that you never know which food comes from which stalls. For those smaller restaurants that have only one kind of food each, there will be no problem finding where that particular food come from.
But what if the place is huge?
There is one such place in SS2. I’m sure almost everybody has been there. Medan Selera they call it. Wai Sek Gai in Cantonese. It’s a super huge place with over a hundred stalls with different kinds of food there. And if you’re new there you wouldn’t know what to order at all. So you walk around and slowly stare at people’s food hoping they wont notice you. Because our mums have always taught us since young, IT’S RUDE TO STARE! But what to do? Wanna know where the food come from mah.. I know I always do that.
The worst part is that you found something you like but you have no idea where the food is from. There is a solution to this though. You can always go over to the person and ask that person where he/she ordered the food from. And whether it is nice.
Would you do that?
Though it always crosses my mind that I could very well do that and save all the trouble of ordering the wrong one, I never ever summon enough courage to ask the million dollar question.
But… that day when I went with my family for dinner there. Someone actually did that. I was happily eating my fried glass noodles when this young 20 something guy suddenly stoop down and force his face right next to me. I almost got a shock of my life! He then proceeded to ask me,
“Miss, where did you order this from?”
I have to admit I was seriously really taken aback. Not tat I minded or anything but this was seriously the first. I always thought about doing this but I didn’t know people actually did that! I was quite happy to help him actually. Wat I hated most was that my mouth was full of food at that moment and I couldn’t charm him. I was hot, with my mouth full of food. Can’t really ask him to wait while I finished chewing so I just answered him.
Interesting though. After this experience I would definitely start asking people where their food comes from. Better than slowly guessing and noticing the colour of their plates and everything. Good for my greedy tummy!
So if you see a girl suddenly pop right next to you asking where your food comes from, it may be me, Princess Shin! =)
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