Friday, June 30, 2006, 10:48 AM
Don't you just hate it when you get bones in the chicken rice?
I'm not particularly picky about getting bones in my chicken rice, but when you go to a stall that reads "
BONELESS Chicken Rice", the least you would expect is to get a packet of... boneless chicken rice. It's not just one or two chicken bones. It's half a packet of it for crying out loud. You know you got an bone to pick (no pun intended) with the guy when you've been duped into being a victim of false advertising.
The thing that bugs me the most is the ENORMOUS text on the stall signboard. If you have to frickin' advertise in such big block letters that a person can see it from a mile away, the least you can do is to remove the damn bones. Isn't it common sense that your customer expects his chicken to be free of bones when you're advertising the awesome boneless quality of your product?
Stall signboards are like clues to what you might have for your next meal. It just ain't right for anyone to mess up the clues for you. What can a man trust if he can't even put faith in the innocent stall signboard?
I'll never trust them stall signboards again. Who knows, the next time you visit a stall that supposedly sells char kway teow, they might just sell you char mee, char bee hoon, or some other fried noodles other than char kway teow instead.
Never read a book by its cover. Never read a stall by its signboard.
