Kafe G Give...

Another night out with the kids last Thursday... the usual 'ensemble' minus Daughter this time but add Jov and Son... Trial Exam season (end of first week), so no tuition for these 2. The place we hung out this time was Kafe G-Give, located in the same row as Cafe Seventeen on Jln Kuala Kedah, next to Keat Hwa 1 Secondary School.

So, what do people do when they get together? Conversations! But the conversation flavours were different. The 3 SPM flers talked about, well SPM things. While we 3 non-SPM flers talked about everything else except SPM. LOL!

Okay comments about G-Give. Sound echo is very strong cos there is nothing on the wall to act as dampeners. So I guess the sounds were bouncing everywhere. Made conversation kinda stressful. It's the same for most cafes here... including the adjacent Cafe Seventeen. Guess Alor Setar has not reached that level of 'sophistication' yet. He! He!

Next, the drinks... presentation okay-lah but won't say the same of the taste. Most of the drinks were too diluted for our liking. They should at least try to make sure there is oomph in the flavours. TH's drink was the most interesting one... chewing gum flavour. 8) But we saw the same poster of the pop ice drinks at PSK on Friday. Guess it's one of those franchise thingy that's going around now.

Food - not much choice. It's either fried this or that. I had sweet sour fish with rice. Ling had golden brown fried rice, Siah had Kampung fried rice, Son with his black pepper chicken rice, Jov and her sweet sour chicken rice and TH and his tomyam fried rice. All of us agreed not to order the same thing. Hey! I remember what everyone had! My memory not failing yet.... 8)

Service was VERY slow. There were 6 of us and another 2 patrons before us. By the time the first dish came, the drinks were not cold any more. You get much faster service at hawker stalls which serve the same fare. This is an area that they could improve on.

There is a tuition centre there... guess maybe that's who their target patrons are. Students... Food is okay-lah. They need to work on their drinks! I tried all the 3 makan joints there... including Old Town.

The night out was good.. we sembang about the future, mainly theirs. Touched a little about the possible careers that the three SPM flers might want to consider, cracked a few jokes. Jov didn't want to go back... I guess I can't blame her. With the trials on, hanging out like this was a luxury and felt kinda like a forbidden fruit... which of course will always 'taste' nicer. In a couple of months, time is something she'll have lots of. The 2 boys have to go 'jadi askar'... direct translation from Hokkien.