My Blood Type is one of those restaurants that’s riding on this fad about eating according to one’s blood type. Located in the heart of the central business district along Market Street, this restaurant sells health supplements as well.
Before handing you the menu, the waiter will ask what your blood type is. After telling him, he hands you a menu labelled ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘O’ or ‘AB’. The ‘A’s have it the worst – they aren’t supposed to eat meat, and are supposed to eat only vegetables and seafood. Thankfully for me, being a ‘B’, I can eat meat. Hurray…what would I do without meat??? Anyway, the food’s supposed to be healthy and has low calories…the menu even puts down the number of calories and all the nutritional information. To me, that just screams ‘AWFUL FOOD’!!!
I had the celery & carrot soup as a starter. This was bland and very dilute. When asked for black pepper to add a tad more flavour to the soup, I was told that they don’t serve black pepper. Great. Seriously, what kind of restaurant doesn’t have black pepper???
My main was the braised lamb shank with sweet potato mash, long beans and brussels sprouts. This was actually quite tasty. At least it was salty enough and the lamb was tender.
Dessert was rojak with molasses. The molasses tasted weird and made the rojak smell like some kind of medicine. Still, someone should tell the management that rojak isn’t a dessert!!!
I remain unconvinced about this eat-according-to-your-blood-type diet. In any case, I certainly won’t be patronising this restaurant again – food on the whole wasn’t fantastic, service was extremely slow (we waited ages for our food to arrive), and it’s expensive. The set menu costs $25+++ while a main on the a la carte menu costs about $36+++ on average.
Feeling unsatisfied with lunch, dinner then had to be a guilty affair. Guess where I went for dinner? Brotzeit for German beer and sausages! Bring on the fat and booze baby! Now THAT’s what I call real food – it was thoroughly and utterly satisfying. 🙂