EAT @ JEM Review

Thurs 24 July about 6.15pm.

Plenty of seats even though it was dinner time. Now I know why.

Young woman cashier was attentive & waiting even while I stood outside the place talking to Bro about what to order. When I walked up to order, turned out she's a foreigner (Indonesian?).  She asked about my Laksa specifics in off-sounding Hokkien/Chinese but still understandable (slim noodles? Sea hum?).

But I didn't like her the moment I found out she's a foreigner.  She didn't look clean either.

She busied with something, and only when she put the bowl in front of me (with noodles and some bean sprouts) on the glass counter top, then I realized she had been preparing it. Odd.

So she doubles up as cashier & food preparer?  Shouldn't the man who is doing the cooking do it?

After that, she said $4.30, took my money & gave me the change in my hand. Rather ... polite but... This is the oddest and most unprofessional EAT outlet I've been to. 

I went to stand where the man was doing the cooking.  I didn't see how he did it, but when he put it in front of me & I took it in both hands, I was surprised the bowl wasn't hot.

When I started eating it, the soup wasn't hot either. What the heck did he do?

Other than that, it tasted Ok because I was hungry. Then I saw a strand of short hair curled around a white noodle.

Must belong to the man since the foreigner cashier has longer hair that's tied up in a ponytail and capped.  The man has a clean cut look, but his hair must have fallen in.

Was at first reluctant to order from this shop. But Bro & I walked round the place & didn't know what to eat. Since we have tried other EAT outlets elsewhere before & they were Ok, I thought this would also be Ok.

Bro didn't eat here (he ate at Yoshinoya that's just across).

This EAT at JEM looks a little dingy & unclean. I shouldn't have stepped in.  Luckily,  my sensitive stomach was Ok after that.

Avoid.  Other reviewers have complained about their service (I only know this just now when checking reviews after I have already eaten).


** After removing the short strand of hair... I still continued eating a little more but that was it.  A strand of hair won't kill, although it can be gross. It's straight hair so it's from the head, not down below.  I know some people would rather stop the moment they see a strand of hair, but ... that's a full bowl & as mentioned, I was hungry.  Although a strand of hair won't kill,  it does show that it's better not to eat here, not entirely clean. It's also not the first time I've come across a place that has hair in the food. Second time.

Some years back,  I found a rather big piece of green glass in my bowl of noodle soup at a hawker center. I complained to the women & they merely apologized.