Sunday, February 20, 2005
What I learned by being a pig for a day
Things I learned from my extreme dining experience yesterday,
- Eating at two dozen restaurants in a day was not as easy as I thought it would be, but not as hard as others thought.
- Appetite is not based only on how much food your body tells you it needs, but also how empty your stomach feels. My stretched out stomach has been very hungry today
- The quality of service at a restaurant is more important that the quality of food
- I really enjoy going to Harry Singh's despite the fact I don't particularly care for roti, their specialty. There are other things I do like and they taste even better because they make you feel like the food has been prepared for you as a friend, not as a customer.
- The food is just about as good at some restaurants as others, but I much prefer that at places where the service is snappy and efficient, not snippy and hurried.
- Better planning would make a similar project go better in the future,
- Don't get two things at one restaurant no matter how much you enjoy them
- Plan when to go to the places which only serve drinks or desert so they are evenly spaced out and after a group of restaurants. Ie, do not make a coffee and tea shop your first stop.
- I'm still trying to work through what it made me realize about living luxuriously in a world where billions are relatively impoverished.
- Assuming flesh from the same animal didn't make it to two different kitchens, I looked at body parts of at least the following before I ate them up,
- 5 dead pigs
- 9 dead shrimp
- 1 dead cattle
- 5 dead chickens
- 1 dead octopus
- 1 dead quail
- 3 dead unborn chickens
- Many dozen dead unborn fish
// posted by Erik @ 2/20/2005 04:04:00 PM
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