Saturday, April 08, 2006

Cafe with no coffee

In the USA a cafe restaurant serves coffee but here in Malaysia I've found that 90% of the time a cafe does not serve coffee.

One Look defines cafe as

A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

but Ask Oxford says

a small restaurant selling light meals

I like to mention to the workers at these coffee-less cafes that the word cafe is derived from the French word for coffee (or Kopi in Malay). They're really not interested.

It's like when I told the people at the A&W restaurant that their Coney Dog was far from a the real Coney Dog on Coney Island in New York. They honestly could care less even though they're serving a chicken dog with chili sauce and mayo when the real thing is a beef hotdog with spicy mustard (they don't have it), relish (they don't have relish), ketchup (they don't have that either), diced onions (this they do have) and chili (they have it).

I have to confess they did get right the vanilla ice-cream in root-bear in a giant mug. Yum!

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