attempting to order food using non-english names

[Splatted]

Today we ate once again at Lucky Plaza, and I picked my favorite dish at the food court, "ikan goreng crispy"

I asked for it the way it was written, "Ikan goreng crispy, please"

The old man behind the counter called someone else to serve, and an aunty asked me what I wanted.

I thought to myself... "I must have said it wrong, so he called someone who spoke English to serve me"

So I answered, "Number 10, please"

The aunty asked with a smile, "Want me? also can!"

I laughed... and thought "Gee, she's daring. Her boss is only a meter away.. and doesn't she see my wedding ring?"

She giggled a bit, and asked again "Want me? also can"

And I must have turned red as I laughed it off. Wow, so flirty, I thought

Finally the food arrived.

Then I returned to work... my head a few inches wider, with my ego inflated.

After I mentioned what had happened to a friend,.. she explained what the aunty was really asking..

What she really said was: "Want mee? Also can"

So I missed out on my complimentary soup :X

[Mad Scientist]

That is funny

Ikan Goreng is fried fish

Crispy in Malay is garing

So you are asking ikan goreng garing. The fish is already fried, it will be crispy

Just say Ikan goreng satu !! which literally mean One Fried Fish

[x9200]

The aunty asked with a smile, "Want me? also can!"

Man, I know OT is 'round the corner but you are just dirty!

[Splatted]

The aunty asked with a smile, "Want me? also can!"

Man, I know OT is 'round the corner but you are just dirty!

who, me? All I'm guilty of is being a repeat customer.

[sundaymorningstaple]

At the hawker centre or OT?

[Splatted]

At the hawker centre or OT?

repeat customer of Indo food.

[x9200]

The aunty asked with a smile, "Want me? also can!"

Man, I know OT is 'round the corner but you are just dirty!

who, me? All I'm guilty of is being a repeat customer.

I guess I should have pasted some kind of smiley

[ksl]

A bit of an anti climax on the old ego Want mee also can! Just say how much and if she says free take it, mind you have a plastic bag ready too, just in case its a grim duckling

[Mad Scientist]

Good one ksl

[vivienshoshanna]

At the hawker centre or OT?

repeat customer of Indo food.

what do you mean by repeat costumer?

[Mad Scientist]

At the hawker centre or OT?

repeat customer of Indo food.

what do you mean by repeat costumer?

vivienshoshanna; obviously you are not living in SG from your question.
Your one sentence posts on other threads is a concern.
Trolling are we ? Please stop as it is confusing

[sundaymorningstaple]

(S)he is, in all probability, a spammer waiting to start but knows I'm watching as I've told her as such. (s)he has joined heaps of forums in the past week or so. It's a Philippines IP address noted for it's spammers so it's on my watch list. Just a matter of time.

tic....toc....tic....toc......

[JR8]

(S)he is, in all probability, a spammer waiting to start but knows I'm watching as I've told her as such. (s)he has joined heaps of forums in the past week or so. It's a Philippines IP address noted for it's spammers so it's on my watch list. Just a matter of time.

tic....toc....tic....toc......

Oh I so enjoy watching SMS getting his teeth into someone

Anyway. I had a not disimilar experience to that described at the Banquet at Raffles Hospital. I picked my yong tau fu ingredients, handed them over, declined any noodles, and the scarfie cook gave me the most impish of looks, fluttered her eye-lashes and said 'What you don't want mee!?'. Then burst out laughing. It was damned funny, if only because it was so unexpected (from a scarfie no less), and SGns are not exactly renouned for their boldness and pun-based humour...