Some Like it Haute

all american rejects.

mid-week wednesday took on a snobby turn as i shared a long-awaited lunch with darr and mellie at seah street deli (SSD).. but guess what, throughout the the excitment of dining at raffles hotel.. i ARGHHHH! sacrilegiously forgot to take my camera along with me. so i hope this wordy entry does it for you too.

overwhelmingly inhabited by a non-local clientale and questionably-dressed waiters in their checkered red pants and suspenders, a jukebox that sits quietly in the corner. decor-wise, seah street deli does manage to pull of a rather convincing 1950s american experience.

at SSD, you could leave the atkins diet at the door.. AUTHOR'S NOTE: and probably forget to take it along with you after the meal.. as there is a generous selection of muckamucks ranging from 'blue-eyes' such as fish and chips and fried steaks to unique-sounding sandwiches 'ike and tina tuna' to not-too-good-for-your-arteries burgers..

the raffles hotel website refers to this deli as a "salute to america" and i believe they take this idea very seriously by delivering gourmet fast food in supersizeme proporations.

for example- after the horror of seeing a burger that was bigger than our faces-combined served up to a neighbouring customer, we were relieved when darr's elvis burger arrived- pleasantly-sized. yet the same could not be said for my foot-long hotdog as when it was served, i did not know where esle to look while darr and mellie teased about its size. ah-hem ladies behave. well, take my word for it... itwaslonggg.

taste-wise? let's me put it ths way, somehow it was the case of "it ain't the size of the wand, but how the magacian wields it" and wielding such a long dish took its toil on SSD. i guess much can be said for after all that sexual brou-haha that lunch continued with me slicing the sesame bread and sausage, then unceremoniously slapping on ketchup and mustard with the rigour of a bored soldier. but then again, the freedom fries did bring out the fastfood junkie in me as i like my fries -thick- you got that?!

though darr did not comment on her burger, i figured it was just as pedastrian. and mellie's marcoroni and cheese.. well what can i say about marcoroni and cheese, other than it is rich, rich.. and sickeningly so after a few bites?

being the reclusive hermit that i am, i still enjoy luncheons with my friends and i guess at the end of the day, it is the company that mattered.