SINGAPORE DELI SLUT TOUR 2009 PART 3: WHERE HAVE ALL THE DELI SLUTS GONE?

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Previously on Senseless Acts of Bloggery:

4. While I won’t be doing much travelogue stuff, Def Agent lorilori  has assigned me to look into the Legend Of The Seah Street Deli Slut.


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I happen to know where the Seah Street Deli is, but I’ve never eaten there. And they don’t put their menu online. So I’ll have to go there and check out the $6.25 Slut for myself.

I went.

And after careful and extensive research, I can safely conclude that there is no slut on the menu at the Seah Street Deli.

Sorry.

METHODOLOGY: I read the menu cover to cover three (3) times. No slut.

I also tried the Acronym approach, and nothing on the menu came even close. Except the “Soho”.

Let me explain.

Basically, in keeping with the “theme” of an “authentic” deli in New York City (actually it’s more like a diner than a deli, but I digress), the menu is a broadsheet where all the categories and dishes are named after places in NYC – so you can order a Times Square or a Union Square or a Lincoln Tunnel or a Staten Island or ...

You get the idea.

Anyway, there’s no New York Slut or anything even close (insert Eliott Spitzer joke here).

MYTH: BUSTED.

The receipt is either a Photoshop job or something since removed after they set up the NY theme (and the receipt is pretty old, so it’s possible). It could also be someone having fun with the cash register software, where you push the “Gramercy Burger” button and it prints out “Slut”. Or maybe it’s off menu and you have to ask for one. If you see what I’m saying.

As for the Seah Street Deli itself ... it’s not that big a deal. As diner-themed restaurants go (and Singapore has a few), it’s not especially unique – except for the price, which is heavy (as it’s technically run by the Raffles Hotel, which is posh posh posh).

The food’s all right and the service was fast (suspiciously so, actually, though they weren’t that busy when I went in). On the other hand, look at how many onion rings you get with yr Gramercy Burger.



That’s wrong.

Also, I might have found it more convincing as a diner if the fake jukebox over to the side wasn’t playing “oldies” from Kelly Clarkson, Maroon 5 and Usher.

And so much for the Seah Street Deli.

Not in the New York groove,

This is dF

Comments

[lorilori.livejournal.com]

ONLY FOUR ONION RINGS! Thats disgraceful.

[thelastaerie.livejournal.com]

sorry to hear that your Singapore trip was a "no slut" one :)