Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner – Are You Prepared?
1158 days agoWell, are you guys prepared for the Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner? Ha, you must be thinking that I have really gone bonkers this time. Not yet finish preparing for that Christmas Party and I am already thinking of the Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner? Well, true. One step at a time is the best policy. But you guys need to remember, for the next year, the Lunar New Year is in January. Not like the usual “some where in February” like what we have the previous years. So, yes, although the year is not over yet, we still have to prepare for the Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner soon. You don’t know to be caught in the rush for restaurants in the last minute, do you?
Nowadays Singaporeans do not have the time (or the energy) to cook for the Lunar New Year Reunion Dinner. Worst still, some of us have to go to different places for Reunion Dinners like with our in-laws and what-not. So, how do we find time to prepare for so many dinners with our hectic schedules? We don’t. Seriously. Very few of us cook for the reunion dinner. Nowadays the norm is to eat out. That’s why Chinese restaurants in Singapore are making a killing (if you don’t mind the unlucky word) during Chinese New Year. And that is why there are squeezing in so many customers in the restaurants. You get cramped places and dinner shifts! This meant that you are allowed like 1 or 1 and a half hours to eat your reunion dinner before they kick you out for the next group of customers. Yes, that also meant that you got no time to talk to your relatives. Don’t you just love Singapore and the businessmen in charge of the country?
And oh, the restaurants charge you a hand and a leg for that 1 and a half hour of makan. Don’t expect that 100 dollars to be enough for your reunion dinner. Some restaurants charge like S$900 for a table of 5. Even “cheap” restaurants are not cheap during Chinese New Year. What do you expect? Chinese New Year is the best period for them to chop their customers’ heads off, even to the point of daylight robbery. But I guess since everyone is doing it and even with the economy supposedly doing very badly, we have to endure the legalized robbery that occurs every year. Even Christmas season we don’t see the bandits hiding in the restaurants. Okay, okay, I know it is the Chinese New Year, how about the quality of the food? First of all, if previous years were to set the presidence of the quality and standard of the food during Chinese New Year, I have to say you guys will be shocked. I have eaten at many restaurants during the Chinese New Year Eve and some of the food they served tasted worse than my own cooking. And when I say it happens, you will be again shocked to realized that even in high class restaurants which are Singapore’s best, the quality of food drops significantly during Chinese New Year. That and the standard of service drops as well. The staff will be swamped with so many customers and orders that you would think you were at the hawker centre.
No, I am not choosy with my food, nor do I always indulge myself with fine food and wine that I cannot eat at the hawker centre. But for god’s sake I am paying hundreds of dollars for the food and the service, the very least the restaurants can do is to provide a little of both. Don’t always think of making a lot of money. Greed can come back and haunt you.
Anyway, if you are still planning to go out for your Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner (or if you have no choice in the matter), please take a look at my list of Singapore Chinese Restaurants. I wish you all the best.
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