Cha Cha Cha Lunch

After 15 years consecutively living in this country, I finally had a meal in Cha Cha Cha, Holland Village. I had always wanted to sample their dishes since my early years here, but for various reasons which included not having a company to dine with, not actively pursuing the intention and simply did not care enough, I never made it there. Until Tuesday last week.

The place itself is not spectacular, the food is average and the service is somewhere between bad and okay. There's a waiter that didn't seem to care about the customers and there was a nicer one that served us later. Like in many other restaurants around.

One of us had the above Mushroom Burrito and down below is Chicken Quesadilla.

I had Chimichanga (right below) and one of us ordered Prawn Burrito. They all are reasonably acceptable and this is likely to be a place to go to for Mexican food in town. As for service .... it's pretty much this way in this city. I am quite used to with not expecting extraordinary service from most of the restaurants around here in the recent years. There's always a 10% service charge imposed iregardless the type of service we get, and another 7% GST.

Big Small Lunch Salad

We found The Cheesecake Factory here in Providence Mall and decided to have lunch over there yesterday. It was just a short walk of four long buildings, maybe around 10 minute-walk from our hotel.

Absolutely impressive menu selection, everyone seemed to be quite pleased with what we could have. Without any fight, everyone agreed on quesadilla for appetizer. I love them, especially the guacamole.



Deciding on trying to stay on the healthier side as much as possible, I ordered a small caesar salad while everyone else order pasta and pizza. Then came our order and a big surprise to all of us seeing a gigantic size of the salad. With much effort, I was only able to finish about 1/4 of the serving, my companies had to struggle to finish theirs too. Every year, we have to be reminded of a very a good lesson of serving size in the USA.



Boo hoo, I felt so bad that I wasted so much food. We'll try to order so much less next time. Maybe just the appetizer size will be more than enough.