Was it Fumier or Ulaca who ranted on about how you can’t get tap water anywhere in restaurants anymore, but have to buy bottles of “mineral water” which is probably tap water anyway, everywhere?
Whoever it was, I support wholeheartedly the movement, “No Tap, No Hak” (”guest” in Cantonese and a terrible rhyme, but you get my driftee.) Yesterday we were having, or going to have, lunch in something called Heaven And Earth in D’aguilar street, a jumped-up darkened shithole two levels under the ground. Between us we would probably have left a thousand dollars for the food if it hadn’t been for: “Only bottled water!” (at $60 a pop.) What? - no, tap water is good enough for the likes of us. Cheers.
No, only bottled water!
Needless to say, we walked straight out of there, leaving the staff in their dark catacombs full of bottled water from the tap. I hope everyone will join Fumier (or was it Ulaca?) and me in always leaving restaurants in which this insane policy is in place.
“Red” in IFC2 is another one. In that particular shithole, you pay through your nose to not even not be given a glass of water, but to go and collect the food yourself.
Is this what it’s going to be now - Peninsula prices, McDonald’s service?
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