our family of 5 brought mom out for a birthday dinner treat just now at Boon Lay Raja Restaurant and this was what our bill looked like at the end of the meal...



the garoupa, fresh from the tank and weighing a respectable 700g, yummily steamed Cantonese-style with garlic, spring onion, chives and soya sauce, cost us only $5.25??? and on top of that, the whole bill had a discount of an additional 25%!!

so our whole family had a filling and very satisfying dinner, 6 dishes in all, comprising a steamed garoupa, claypot egg beancurd, kai lan with oyster sauce, sweet and sour pork's ribs, foo yong egg, and a whole herbal chicken... enough food for a feast, and ended up paying no more than $13 per person!!! we didn't notice the suspicious billing for the fish until we were way out of the restaurant, rubbing our satisfied tummies...

mum says that it was probably a mistake, made either intentionally (by a disgrunted employee) or unintentionally (by a very "blur" cashier). The fish was supposed to be at least $8 per 100g!! now, it was only a dollar twenty five cents more than the price of the peanuts!!

oh dear! i hope the cashier didn't get into trouble in the end.. and i really wonder how many other mistakes were made in the course of the whole night in the rather packed restaurant... sigh... the perils of employing bad staff...