{"id":630,"date":"2006-05-11T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T12:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2006-05-11T12:37:58","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T12:37:58","slug":"com-plain-roti-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Com-Plain Roti None"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some ex-colleagues rave about the food in my office cafeteria, finding excuses to come over for the classic Chinese Fried Rice. Some current colleagues can&#8217;t stand the food here and complain that it never changes.<\/p>\n<p>Till one fine day when we got a memo via email about the new <i>Tandoori Chicken with Roti Naan<\/i>. Being the Cheese Naan and Tandoori Chicken lover I was, I had to check it out. Besides, where else would you get it during lunch hour? Normal naan-providing eateries only open in the evening. (However, they only served it on Mondays and Thursdays.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/tcrn1.jpg\"><br \/>\nI eagerly awaited Thursday for the debut of the meal set. Sure, the plate isn&#8217;t appealing, but which is more important: The tea you drink, or the cup you drink the tea in?<\/p>\n<p>The chicken was excellent, juicy with the right amount of exaggerated crisp. Satay isn&#8217;t satay without burnt carcinogens, yes? The mint sauce looked like peppermint with chocolate ice-cream but was good anyway.<\/p>\n<p>However, that was no roti naan &#8211; that was a chappati! It sure looked and tasted like the flat, dry bread.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I did something Malaysians would not do.<\/p>\n<p><b>Complain to the right people.<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; color: #000000; background: #FFCC00; padding: 1em\">\nFrom: (me)<br \/>\nTo: (the sender)<br \/>\nSubject: RE: Cafeteria Special <\/p>\n<p>Hi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some ex-colleagues rave about the food in my office cafeteria, finding excuses to come over for the classic Chinese Fried Rice. Some current colleagues can&#8217;t stand the food here and complain that it never changes. Till one fine day when we got a memo via email about the new Tandoori Chicken with Roti Naan. Being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}