Don't Be Late For a Dinner Date

Generally speaking, I am not very keen on dinner dates during weekdays. Even on Fridays (except with my lahling lah). Why? Because I am boring as hell and prefer to go home and sleep after a tiring day at the office.

Besides, it's annoying if the people coming to dinner are not punctual. I am a stickler for being on time. I don't like to wait for people and I don't like people to wait for me.

But some people are by nature tardy or casual about being on time. One Friday evening, we were invited for dinner. Go where? They could not even decide. So being passive aggressive, I said, in that case, go to Chili's. Hah!

We got there around 7:00pm and luckily we got a seat. Usually, Chili's does not seat incomplete parties but somehow they made an exception that evening.

By 7:30pm, still no sight of the hosts. They are family. I am fond of them. But not so much their sense of time. 

I was very hungry and so was my partner. Since these are close family members, we need not observe any protocol and we went ahead and ordered.

My favorite Chipotle Chicken Crispers.

Same old, same old, Santa Fe Chicken Salad.

Almost 8:00pm and they still had not turned up. In fact they showed up only after we were done with our dinner. Since my stomach was full, I was happy. 

Then we invited some other family members for dinner the next evening. They were punctual, we were not. Not my fault. 

There were four of us and I left the ordering to my partner. This is more his kind of food.

Yam basket. One of my favorites!

Lots of goodies inside the yam ring.

Stir fried sweet potato leaves. Everybody's favorite.

Stir fried fish fillet with ginger and spring onions.

This is some sort of stewed pork with vegetables, not my favorite.

Not that I don't enjoy dinner dates, but I prefer them on weekends (when I am more relaxed) because Fridays (or any weekday), I am mentally tired and grouchy hah...hah.... The only weekday dinner date that I look forwards to is with my brother :)