eat drink don't think!

and everything in betwink

specials: golden pumpkin tomato soup, lunar greek salad, cajun dory linguine, lunar apple streusel

Have you seen that video that's been going round? The young boy with the slightly inconsistent American accent dissing Chinese New Year. While it has ruffled a few feathers, we can't decide if it's satire or... well, we're staying out of this one. Not because we "don't have the courage to make a stand", but often, meddling simply isn't necessary.

Anyhoo.

this week's lunar new year specials, available from today, all day, and possibly all week (except for 22-24 Jan coz we're closed, yo) or while fresh ingredients last

soup of the day: golden roasted pumpkin & El Tomate
"Pumpkin" is often used as an affectionate term of address, especially to a child or a loved one. How is it "Tomato" is never used as a term of endearment? 
Let's try this: "Hey Tomato, how's your day coming along? Would you like to eat in or go out for a quiet dinner tonight?" That doesn't sound half bad, really. 
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things to share-share: Lunar Greek Salad with sesame vinaigrette, starring Mandarin Orange, Greek Feta, Chilled Greens, Olives and guest-starring El Tomate
Mandarin Orange & Greek Feta -- a happy marriage of the Orient and the Occident, of whose offspring will have promising careers in modelling and veejaying. Unlike poor El Tomate, who's never had a starring role due to discrimination. Is El Tomate discriminated against because it's always been fluid and/or undecided about its orientation? Discuss.
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pasta special: Cajun-grilled Dory with chunky vegetables, gently rested atop spiced Tomate linguine
Despite not being used as a term of endearment and having career difficulties, El Tomate is not faring too badly as Ingredient of Choice this week. There is hope in this world.
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dessert special: apple streusel with orange cinnamon coulis, topped with a generous ball of vanilla gelato
Now if only people would see that deep down, El Tomato really is a fruit, it might've made it to the dessert special this week. However El Tomate is not one to be greedy, and is ever grateful to be featured in 3 out of 4 specials this week. Ganbatte, El Tomate!
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 hey it rhymes.

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booze special: Badger Blandford Flyer (5.2% ABV) ~ a refreshing ale with mild ginger tones
What's worse than being an unfairly discriminated El Tomate? Having "Blandford" as a middle name.
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The Garden Slug wishes everyone a Happy Lunar New Year. And remember! We will close shop for the Lunar New Year from 22-24 January 2012 (inclusively). Business as usual from Wednesday 25 January 2012, 10.00am.

specials: mushroom chowder, double cheese nachos, pumpkin cheese gnocchi, peanutbutternutellacheesecaketart

"All families are dysfunctional." ~Sharon Slug's Dad

this week's dysfunctional specials, available from today, all day, and possibly all week or while fresh ingredients last

soup of the day: slow-braised triple mushroom chowder a.k.a. The Terrible Triplets
As mushrooms are proverbial for rapid growth, people have started declaring the humble fungi as a performance-enhancing food. In keeping with ungrounded fads, we have decided to offer not one, nor two, but three types of performance-enhancing fungi in today's soup. Remember these three names if it's the last thing you utter before you begin your wild weekend of debauchery: White Button, Portobello and Shiitake, the holy trinity of spore-producing organisms.
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things to share-share: double cheese nachos, served with a lime herb salsa by side a.k.a. The Black Sheep
If this looks familiar, that's because it is. It used to be a stellar example of fine Things To Share-Share on our regular menu, until it got caught intruding upon the 5-piece Grilled Portobellos' backyard. While some may brush this off as a petty misdemeanour, a complaint was filed and as with most first-world countries, invasion of privacy is a serious matter and The Starter Formerly Known as Double Cheese Lava Nachos had to be put away for good.

However, just as there are women who are drawn to men behind bars, the offending nachos has its legion of fans too. While a royal pardon may not be possible, the double cheese nachos has been let out for parole this week, and this week only, with strict orders to report its whereabouts to Parole Officer Sophia Slug every 3.5 hours. 
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pizza special: spicy bacon, tomato & fresh coriander a.k.a. The Feisty One
 Don't get on the wrong side of the fresh chillies and you'll be alright. That's all we have to say.
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special main: pumpkin cheese gnocchi in a beer-spiked lamb ragù, topped with sour cream a.k.a. The Golden Child
The Golden Child, as the name suggests, is the best and most wonderful - at least in the eyes of Ning "The Narcissistic Parent" Slug. Said parent picks The Golden Child to be an extension of herself, onto whom she projects all her own supposed wonderfulness. 
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The Golden Child can do no wrong, and gets the best of everything. Their most minor achievements are celebrated and held up for admiration. 
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The Golden Child taught us something new today: that ragout is French, and ragù is Italian. And in Malay: Jika ragu-ragu, tanyalah Wikipedia.
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dessert special: peanut butter nutella cheesecake tart with rummy wildberry coulis by side a.k.a. The Overachiever
The Overachiever studied psychology at Havard University while still working as an actress, speaks French, Japanese, German, and Arabic, has co-authored two papers that were published in scientific journals, is an advocate for animals rights and has been a vegetarian since childhood, is the Ambassador of Hope for FINCA International, has won several Best Actress awards and to top it all off, is young and beautiful. Oh wait, we just described Natalie Portman.
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booze special: Badger Blandford Flyer (5.2% ABV) a.k.a. The Slow But Kind Second Cousin
Is best friends with The Golden Child and has a crush on The Feisty One.
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Stop being Tempuramental. Just gimme my goddam leave. And other puns.

This was part of a Whatsapp conversation between Mindy and Sophia Slug... about Mindy not being able to apply for leave.

"Mr Manager, Udon understand.. I need to take leave."

"Oden, I'm supposed to anyhow give you leave arh??"

"Kani Nabe, I quittt!"

"Wagyu mean? I don't understand."

"You stop being Tempuramental. Just gimme my goddam leave."

"You Tamago to hell!"

At the end of the night, Mindy & Sophia Slug end the conversation. 

"Good night, Miso sleepy."

"Ok, Shoyu don't forget to check your roster tomorrow ok? Good night." 

Recently, Nicholas shared a video of a Pun-Off World Championship in Austin, Texas.

It wouldn't be complete, of course, if the other Slugphiles didn't chip in with puns of their own. 
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We've updated our in-house menu.

<corporate speak>We've removed quite a few items, to facilitate inventory management and to manage wastage and spoilage. </corporate speak>


<plain English>We want to serve only the freshest ingredients, and we don't want to keep stocking up on stuff that hasn't been selling. </plain English>

We apologise if we may have removed your favourite dish (yeah, we're talking to all three of you). If we still have the ingredients, or variations of it, we can still make it for you. As always, just ask :-)

Still no GST and no service charge, but always at your service.

xoxo
your humble Slugs

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Blessing Home Adoption Drive, 10-11 December 2011

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Dear All,

 We are still looking for homes for the animals at Blessing Home.  The houses that we have viewed are way too much to accomodate 5 dogs and hundered over cats.

 Not only the space is small, the rental are also very high.

 Hence after discussing with some of the owners who had cats with us, we had decided to have an adoption drive on 10th Dec and 11th Dec, from 11.30am to 5pm.

 We hope that some of the cats can be rehome to a good home.

 Kindly see attached poster for more details. 

 Please help to spread the news to responsible adopters.  

 Thank you very much and see you on 10th Nov/11th Nov.

 Regards,
Phyllis

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. 
~ Mahatma Gandhi 
 
If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please accept our sincere apologies.  We would appreciate your alerting us to this error, before deleting the mail.  Thank you for your cooperation.

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