It was 12:34pm when me, Chelsea, Ben, Yoke Fung and M.Y. hung out for lunch at nearby BBQ Chicken after school. The true reason for hanging out for lunch with them is because today is our final day for studying the second semester at school before final exams after Chinese New Year. Another reason of eating there was because of a recommendation of a friend who had then given me a $5 discount voucher. A significant quote as a claim, "Korea's No. 1 Chicken Restaurant" was found printed on the voucher when I read it.

Of course, there's always a small discount to be given to us, as students, when eating out around our school area. Well, you can say that hanging out for lunch there was great... until disasters happened...

All of us arrived there by taking a short walk from school. As we entered the restaurant, we saw a sign "15% Discounts for Students. Bring Your Student ID along and You May Enjoy The Privilleges" posted on the glass door. What we could see there were just a few customers eating at two tables so we entered. We were then being seated and given menus by a waitress. The very first thing which made me felt so friggin pissed in the restaurant was the waitress herself because she just left without telling us anything about recommendations after giving us menus. So we had to searched the menus for about 15 minutes ourselves before ordering.

After that we called that waitress back for ordering our lunches. The three of us, M.Y, Yoke Fung and me ordered the promotional set meals of the month on a piece of leaflet enclosed in the menus called Set C, a combination of hot and spicy chicken (a.k.a. Hot Hot Chicken) with Fiesta Rice, 2 Chicken Nuggets, Soup and Coleslaw as Ben ordered Set A, Charbroiled Chicken with Fiesta Rice, 2 Chicken Nuggets, Soup and Coleslaw. Chelsea ordered Set D, which includes Fried Chicken with Mashed Potato, 2 Chicken Nuggets, Soup and Coleslaw, for herself.

Since all set meals are being included with soft drinks, I asked the waitress what were the varieties to be chosen. But the waitress just said with an angry look, "Oh, only Pepsi and Strawberry."
What the hell is wrong with her talking to us with such a tone?

Oh well, we all thought that she might be having somekind of stress so we just kept quiet about that. Since there were only two options, all four of my friends ordered Pepsi so I chose Strawberry. After that, she just jolted down our orders with such a facial expression and left without telling us anything about the serving time.

While waiting for the food to be served, I took some time observing the interiors of the restaurant myself. I liked the walls as they were painted in red but there's a really big yet annoying abstract portrait of a creepy old man painting outdoors hanging on a wall near the entrance. I can even say it is the most "un-Korean" restaurant interiors I've ever seen so far. I even wonder how that restaurant can gain the quote to claim as "Korea's No.1"...

The food was then served on our tables by a waiter... wait a second! Did I just said "Waiter"? Yes, indeed, the waitress had just disappeared in the dimension of nowhere and at least he served our food with a smile. That was okay, until the we tried our food...

I started off my meal with the soup. It was sweet corn cream soup. Chelsea doesn't like corns so she just took a few tablespoonful into her mouth forcefully... After finishing the soup, I moved on to the Fiesta Rice. It tasted really good but what had actually made me shocked was the portion of the rice itself. There was just a small cup of rice on the big white place. How disappointful!

The next would be the nuggets. Gosh! They were not crispy at all but soggy... To finish it forcefully, I poke it with my fork and dip at the remaining Corn Soup then pop them into my mouth. Chelsea asked Ben if they taste good. So Ben just exclaimed "SOOOO GOOD" with funny facial expressions that everyone on the table smirked at him.

I finally tried the "Hot Hot Chicken". Well, the chicken was fine but the sauce had reached the off-limits. The spiciness was overwhelming that it felt like smokes coming out of my ears. Besides, the sauce tasted like a blend of Thai chili sauce with Kimchi sauce but with very light flavors. Therefore, too spicy but light flavors are not a balanced combination.

Finished the food forcefully and paid our bill. We thought the disasters were over but there was one more... The discounts! Where did all our discounts go? We quickly rushed to the payment counter and asked for explainations. All we could get was the lame excuse of "Promotional Sets are already in discounts. So no more discounts for students". M.Y. was so frustated and scolded the cashier that the staff should have told us earlier.

In conclusion, we promised ourselves not to eat there again. It's a scam for students! And it's our fault for falling into that trap... (*sigh~)