BUT DESSERT WAS GREAT!

August 22, 2016


For dinner I ordered cheese ravioli covered in crab meat and mushroom sauce.  Either Mark made a mistake, or the galley sent out the wrong thing because I got some kind of orange rice with vegetable chunks.  I never order rice unless it is Chinese fried rice or Jasmine rice, so I was confident right away that this was a mistake.  I tasted the rice – it was pretty tasteless.  I tasted the vegetables – they were, to quote my curly haired grandson, nasty.

I fiddled with it for a couple bites, and then laid my utensils down.  Anthony, the head waiter, came by and asked if I was not enjoying my dinner.  I told him the kitchen had sent out the wrong thing.  He asked what I wanted, and went back to get it.  Out it came, piping hot and looking like what the menu suggested – big squares of cheese ravioli with hunks of crab meat and a mushroom sauce.

I cut one square, scooped up some sauce, and popped it in my mouth, ready to chew with delight.  To quote Mac again, but this time with more emphasis, it was NASTY!  Two more bites only confirmed my initial judgment.  And I had started to order the Angus Beef Sliders!

Bonnie laughed and said, “Is it bad?”

I rolled my eyes, made a face, let my head loll to the right, and slowly tilted my whole body in the same direction.  Bad?  Oh my goodness!  Just at that moment, Agia, our assistant waiter walked by, saw what I was doing, and gasped, “Mr. David!  Are you all right?!”

To his great embarrassment, Bonnie and I both dissolved in tears.  How do you explain to a conscientious young waiter from Indonesia that it is bad and that you are all right, and at the same you are pantomiming dying?  I think I convinced him.

Mark, our waiter, saved the meal by announcing that for dessert they were offering Coffee-flavored Ice Cream.  I had four scoops!

My Turn!!

  I had linguini with pomadore sauce it was great. I also had ice cream. I got 4 scoops of chocolate and vanilla ( 2 each).