[FOOD] Xi Lai Can Guan (禧来餐馆)

Went to a lousy place for dinner today. Damm!

I ordered a ‘Ginger Onion Fish rice’ and found something like a small cockroach in the gravy. Eeew?!
When we told the waitress girl about it, she kind of ignores us and continues her work. So much of a service, eh? FAILED

Leftovers, I can't make myself to eat anymore. Not with the knowledge of a bug in the gravy

And before that, my little brother was reading the menu for drinks and the waitress aunty just snatched it from his hand (without even telling my brother that she need the menu back!) and went back to her station. Talk about manners… FAILED

Other than that, my mom was having a hard time choosing what she wanted to eat so she told the aunty to come back later. But the aunty only waited a few moments and came back to ask her (and quite impatiently too!) for her order. FAILED

We were quite annoyed at the lack of manners and service from this restaurant.
The name of the restaurant is Xi Lai Can Guan (禧来餐馆)

VERDICT: FAILED.
We will not visit this shop ever again.

[review] Queen Betsy series by MaryJanice Davidson

The thing I like about this Queen Betsy series by our dear author, MaryJanice Davidson is the humor. All those small little things that we like to mutter under our breath, it’s funny and it made me laugh. And hey, the story is quite fascinating too. Like I mentioned (if not for the billionth times) in my other reviews, I read a lot of vampires books (and I think you too, no doubt) so it really takes more than a bit of brain juice to satisfy me and my brain.

The main character, Elizabeth Taylor a.k.a. Betsy reminds me of Fran Fine in ‘The Nanny’. LOL, their fashion sense were the same, except Fran is fashion-conscious from head to toe. I learnt many names of shoe designers from the series. There are some names that I never heard before… maybe because I’m pretty much of a Laura-with-Payless person. Says me with my 2 years old, bright yellow Greek sandal. I bet Betsy will scream at me if she ever saw me.

One thing about vampire here that I haven’t read about from other books was they are afraid of God and everything about it, like bibles and prayer (plus, curses. HAH). So, it gave a sense of security like if you were being chased by a vampire, you can start reciting “For God so love the world that he gave his only son… etcetera”

I would have given a place for this series in my top ten list of ‘Best Supernatural Series’ if not for the new spin in the story starting book 7. Man, at least announce this as a Season 2 series (she kinda did but I’m the reader here, I need somebody to blame for my heartaches) so that I’ll prepare myself or something. It really makes me sad to read about the death of the ones I knew. Plus it gave me a 2 day worth book poisoning which has side effects like tension headache.

The ‘trilogy arc’ or something starting from the seventh book had given me at least a surprise (if not nasty) per book. Although I’m still glad that Betsy is continuing to amaze people or learnt new skills (Yay, amazing Betsy!), it didn’t come up enough to counter-balance the nasty ones.

So after all and all, I give this series a 3 out of 5.

[WARNING – There might be bits of spoilers ahead, proceed by your own risk]



My personal thought (rant!) about the series

I wonder how will the next book coming along. Man, I seriously hope that the future won’t end up like the one in book 9. I really can’t that the fact that the (second version or WHAT?!) Book of the Dead is made up of Eric’s skin. I mean, YUCK?! and NOOoooo!! And what with the Marc-gone-insane-stuff?! He might not be my favorite character but he did nothing to get himself to be a villain in the future.

And I really dislike Laura, from the first time she appeared until now. Because no matter how good she live her life, she’s evil inside. On the other hand, I like BabyJon~! Man, he is, maybe the most sanest (okay, redundancy here) person in the future.

Anyway, I was wondering if I’m gonna buy the next book. Because if disaster filled up more than 50% of the pages, I so going to throw it in the fire which will result in a wastage of my money. By the by, if you are buying the book, BookDepository is having discount on this one.

Check it out at the picture below~!