Ananas Cafe (Aljunied Mrt)

A quick lunch on a rainy day when you forgot your trusty umbrella turned out to be an interesting afternoon for me listening to the juicy gossips of a coffee shop's staff. This place has always intrigued me with its crowd of strangers sharing a small space while each minding their own business.

The selection of food is pretty good for a small space such as this. You get the always delicious chicken rice, a good mix of staples like fried noodles, bee hoon, fried rice and mee goreng with lots of add ons to have. Fish cakes, jap chicken roll, seafood roll, bean curds, etc. If you would like the standard runny egg and toast, they have that too to order at the drinks counter.

I ordered some fried rice with addons of fish cake and a hash brown. This cost me $3.50 which is more expensive then the other coffee shops around, a cup of hot milo cost me $1.30, wow the whole meal is about $4.80 at the precinct of the MRT Station. Well, its not so expensive judging by the air conditioned environment with glass windows to watch people going by. The food was so so, fried rice too hard and apparently tastless, all you get is salt and cold hard rice, hash brown cold and fish cake limp.. The food seriously is not nice!

I was surprised at the speed of the collection of finished plates and trays and the tables are cleaned promptly and was even more surprised to hear one staff telling a customer to bring her bubble tea cup from next door out when she leaves and she is not supposed to drink that here. There was not a scene but I was shocked because the lady was having her lunch from here and just brought her drink with her. Well, should there be more grace? If she cannot consume her drink here, she could have lunched elsewhere. The girl left shortly without finishing her food, I mean who would not after being embarrassed like that.

Beside me sat a staff and her apparent manager in which she bad mouthed her other colleague and when the manager refuse to agree with her, she actually threatened to quit! I was pretty entertained by the happenings more than anything else. Its a good place to catch a cuppa coffee but not a good place to dine.. AND REMEMBER.. no bubble tea or any drink from anywhere else, Less you get it shove up your face.... BAD LADY STAFF!