STOP PRESS! A new fast food option has opened at the shopping centre near our office. And not before time, because the delights of every other restaurant/food vendor have been sampled many times over. The new establishment is 'Snoekies', originally of Hout Bay in Cape Town – a cheap and cheerful, slightly squalid café in the harbour that churns out massive quantities of fish and chips.
Our local Snoekies has gone more upmarket, but obviously it lacks the vital ambience of lurking predatory seagulls and boats chugging by. The staff are staying true to Snoekies general disinterest in customer service however.
I went there for lunch with a couple of colleagues on our way back from a meeting yesterday. There were little tables clustered outside, but the people behind the counter seemed unable to believe that we actually wanted to eat there. Two different people came outside to check that this was indeed the case. When a man eventually emerged with our first batch of our orders, he put two plates on the table and walked away without explanation, stopping once to look back wordlessly - presumably to check if we were fighting it out over who was getting the food.
I will admit though, that the fish and chips were very good indeed.
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