This evening, Tim and I went out to dinner at the Fishermen, a local Chinese restaurant. Something happened at dinner that is not an uncommon occurence here; one of the dishes that we ordered never showed up.
In the U.S., if a dish you order doesn't show up, its probably going to be pretty obvious. One reason is that in the U.S., all dishes of a certain type (appetizer, entre, desert, etc.)are served at the same time. Here, however, dishes come out when they are ready. Since dishes are often staggered here, its not obvious when a dish was forgetten. You think that its just coming out later.
The other reason that its not as obvious when part of an order is missed is that people share dishes. In the U.S., each person usually orders an individual meal. It is obvious to even the most obtuse waiter that something is missed if one person is sitting there with nothing while everyone else has their food.
Tonight it wasn't really a big deal. We shared the dishes that we had, and Tim wasn't very hungry anyway.
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