Food For Thought

Went for lunch at Food For Thought with Qing on Saturday when we couldn't decide where to go, and happened to stumble across this little eating place. Since Qing had mentioned about this place and neither of us had been there before, we decided to give it a try.

Yes, the entire eating place is that "big". From where I took the picture, the entrance is just a few feet behind me and where that light green piece of glass is, that's the end of the shop, and the width... well, you can see from the picture yourself. Also, the cooking is done just right behind the counter, so expect the place to be a little warm and to come out of the place with the slight smell of food clinging onto you.

There is no waitress to sit you, and there is also no menu for you to browse at your table at your own leisure. The place's so-called menu are a few gigantic chalkboards hung all around behind the counter, which is where to order the food. There are also cutlery, serviettes and iced water near the counter, so that after ordering, you can gather whatever you need then go back and sit down to wait for the food. I guessed these are the reasons why the eatery can boast about having no GST and no service charge.

Qing ordered their "house special", $9.90, which includes the soup and a sandwich, or the salad and a sandwich. She got the set with the Shitake mushroom soup, and the slow-roasted pulled pork sandwich.

What is pulled pork? This was actually only my second time coming across this term. When I first heard it, it sounded kind of torturous, especially if you are a pig.

Ok, back to the sandwich, the orange bits on the pork are mashed sweet potato. The pork tasted ok, with the spicy barbeque sauce. Can't comment much on it coz that was the first "pulled pork" I had eaten. But it was more on the lean side, rather than fatty. The mushroom soup was just normal, in fact, a little on the thin side. More like a mushroom "drink" than soup, as compared to others, it had no tiny chewy bits of mushrooms in it.

You know the meal is normal when Qing eats a little too quietly. There were no constant ravings about the wonderful taste of the sauce, or the stringy pig meat, or the soup. She didn't go "hmmmm... yummy" after the first bite, or showed me the "I can eat another five of these" kind of look.

And she even rejected having a taste of my Basil Pesto Roasted Chicken Spaghetti, $12.90.

I got to admit the use of the wooden dish to serve the spaghetti was a tiny surprise. Other than that, nothing much worth mentioning about the pasta dish. I could taste the salad, spaghetti and roasted chicken, separately, rather than as one complete dish. It was like being served three separate dishes. I'm not sure if it was what the eatery is aiming for. But I didn't really like it.

If I were to ever go back a second time, it would be to try out their strongly advertised home-made desserts, which are mainly cakes. They did looked quite pretty and delicious, sitting on the display shelf.