Strawberry Kafe Welcome You~!

This is my 1st drink ever! Watermelon juice! haha yeah right.. big deal.. nothing special la i know. just that weather was hot and watermelon can quench thirst wat.. (do u know that 97% of a watermelon contains water??). Oops.. know i drink a bit liao b4 taking a shot la. Hee can't help but drink some 1st wat. The main reason why we are Strawberry Kafe is bcoz my aunt wants to use the pretty strawberry to decorate the rim of the drinks served, sort of making it our 'logo'.

One of the few congratulatory flowers we gotten but i only took this 1. is that... little coconuts i see hanging below??? man.. florist nowadays r damn creative or wat?

Anyway, an upclose shot of the drink menu. Many customers have been asking if we sell bubble tea and the answer is NO! What's so nice about bubble tea anyway?! It's all sugary and artifical. I advise all you pple to drink fruit juices! LoL :P

I really think this shop is a heaven for the dieting ladies. As a matter of fact, many of our customers are women, not surprisingly, with all the fruits and salad and sandwiches we are selling. Personally i like fruits and vegetables. Slimming rule #1: the least calories u take in, the more weight u will lose. common sense, really. Maybe bcoz i have too much vices, i tend to try to consume more healthy food in order to lessen my guilt for the burdens my lungs and liver are suffering. This is an excellent place for me to redemn my sins!

We even sell liang teh (erm.. literally 'cooling tea'?) in many flavours wor. apparently, diff kinda liang teh has diff 'functions' to our bodies. today, i just tried red date liang teh which supposedly 'nourishes my blood, improves my complexion and strengths my liver'. But most of the time i like to drink peppermint honey (can u really call this liang teh??? *shrug*).

Unfortunately, i haven't been exactly on my ideal 'fruits and vegetables' diet so far... reason being..... i have really been snacking instead...... *guilt guilt guilt*. from 1sthand experience, i wanna tell everyone that is is almost Impossible to lose weight if your workplace is surrounded by food! It's like, when someone order a pack of fries/ onion rings/ wedges/ chicken wings, i will happily fry extra to snack on! god saves my waistline and sanity pls. i believe this is my retribution for sneering at pple who indulge in chocolate and pastries (i swear i dun mean u, shan). in return, my weakness is fried food (in my opinion, worse than eating chocolate and pastries). To make things worse, my aunt fries hotdogs, nuggets and stuffs during weekdays and put them in the warmer so that hungry school kids can buy them conveniently. When biz is slow, the temptation to retrieve a stick of nuggets to munch on is especially strong. Seemingly-innocent looking small portions here and there of the fried goodies are bad news. I officially announce that pisces girls have 0 willpower. No wonder i will never look anything like the cover girl of FHM... Damn...

Oh look! Mutant Chicken Nugget!!! LoL. Look how freaky big the bugger is next to its normal nuggest cousin! Have you ever heard of urban legends telling of fast food horrors...??? McChicken made up of mashed up mutant chicken parts, Taco Bell food contained cockroach eggs which later transplanted itself into the cheeks of the unfortunate victim and later hatching... ... But u know what's the horror of all? It's... The... Fact... That.... chicken nuggets actually contain bits of fats within in order to make it tasty.. Yup. Straight to your thighs, ladies.. so Beware! *sinister background laughter*

Can't really blame me for snacking actually. That's my wages. I am paid in FOOD! For every hour i work, i get a glass of drink of my choice. See, that's the returns i get outta 2 long hours of gruelling cashiering duty cum magazine reading. Tough work really! :P

We are also selling this seaweed snack which i am eating liberately (aunt wondered why we ain't see profits on them). It's a godsend goodie to me to replace the sinful potato chips which i so love to snack on mindlessly. With its low calories and plentiful of nutrients, i am willing to give up pc.. for now... teehee... but on a serious note, i will recommend it to others. super nice! comes in 4 flavours, wasabi being my fave follow by tom yum goong. there is also hot & spicy which i find it a tad too hot and there is original which i think is a little too bland.

if you have ever been in the service line you will know that there is all kinda pple outta. I shall classify the 3 main types i have come across while tending the shop so far:

1. The friendly folks: They make up the bulk of the customer base (thank goodness) and are mainly the aunties and uncles, kids and grandkids in tow (optional) whom you see in heartland places daily. They good-heartedly do little purchases of fruits and drinks for themselves or their families and take a few mins to engage in polite chit chat with you about the weather and the watevers.

2. The Buy-N-Go: The 2nd biggest group. As title suggests, they order, pay and go. Lovely.

3. The fussy freaks: The morons i can't stand the most. No watermelon/ papaya/ honeydew etc is fresh/ cheap/ sweet/ ripe enuff for their unreachable standards. They watch you closely like a trained hawk as you prepare their orders. 1 fussy freak whom i came across b4 ordered a mango juice but want absolutely no mango puree and syrup (the stuffs which sweeten your juices or else if only fresh mango is used, it can taste rather bland). Some pple r really fussy even for petty details like that lo.. Or maybe she's jus an extreme health conscious chick. Another time, 1 auntie lamented loudly how expensive we are selling our papaya (50cents) and i totally had to do my roll-eyes thing. Silently in my heart i am thinking how much more she has to spend instead when she gets constipation and gotta buy laxative! HaHA!

From now to Dec 31 2006, come down to Strawberry Kafe and upon ordering, simply say the password 'Doreen Is Gorgeous!' in your most convincing voice! If you can bring yourself to do that, a 20cents discount is offered on all your purchases! Stay healthy and happy folks! ^_^

Doreen @ 10:04 AM