Eateries....

Have you been to a road-side stall or to an eatery along the five-foot path or are you the fine-dining type?


Or for not asking too much, are you the type of person who shuns shanty make-shift teh-tarik stalls?


Well! No one is going to blame you for the place you choose to eat or drink but before you go into a restaurant or a stall, do you ponder to choose which one to go for or aimlessly walk into one irrespective of where it is or what they sell?


Now, here's the thing I'm getting at. Okay.......! Imagine this scenario.


There are ten stalls, all lined up like pretty maids in a row. All the stalls sell just about the same roti-canai, roti banjir, teh tarik, nescaper O, nasi lemak + ayam and so on and so forth. If you are a Malaysian, you should know the menu list better than you can remember your birth date.


Still at the same scenario, of all the ten stalls, only one or two will be the crowd puller. The others will be chasing flies. Have you noticed that?


My question : Why does everyone walk into the same stall no matter what they sell or how the food taste while the others are shunned?


Why is it that the same restaurant is frequented and not others no matter how jam-packed it is.


Why don't the other stalls get customers? What's so special about this particular one that makes people frequent but not the others?


You ever ask your yourself these questions? The food may be below par but this particular eatery will be the most popular amongst all the others.


I can argue of the above scenario until the donkeys come back home for I know it is true. My friend and I use to sell nasi-lemak and kuih by the roadside. Almost every customer would prefer not to patronise my stall but the others. My customers are always the regular ones while the other gets customers even from Timbuktu.


My nasi-lemak days are now over. Lucky me, I found a 9 to 5 job.


Hmmm!