Bribing Vin with Dallas Chicken & Ribs

Sel has been going back to the office every alternate Saturday to catch up with work this year. She was having trouble coping with part-time school while working full-time. Thus, as of July last year she had been studying full-time and working with flexible hours. Now, she has trouble coping with work! So she is sacrificing some weekends to work.

Vin has been as supportive and understanding as he could. Nevertheless, he has little tolerance for working over the weekend. He’s favourite argument for Sel having to work on another weekend is “no matter how long you spend working, you can never finish work”. And Sel will counter “a deadline is a deadline. I am not trying to finish all my outstanding but I am trying to meet all my deadlines”.

No one can blame him as we usually have date plans on the weekends. Be it if it’s just to the movies, window shopping or lazing at Yishun Dam dreaming about our future...

So that particular Sunday, Sel promised to bring him to Dallas Chicken & Ribs for dinner as it was really close to her office. Also because, she knows the best way to Vin’s heart is food. There has been quite a hype on Dallas Chicken & Ribs. It is said that the food there is great and the price is really cheap too. Hence, we were both excited about dining there.

Well, it turned out to be pure hype!

From the outside, the place did not look welcoming at all. The interior deco was dark and to Sel’s horror, she saw a lizard on the ceiling. You know she is petrified of lizards! There goes Strike One!

We decided to order the Dallas Special set, Spicy Drumlet set and we traded a bag of fries with onion rings. The counter staff wasn’t really friendly. While waiting for our food to be served, we were trying to watch one of those Indonesian series show on their LCD TV but it was on mute. Like what’s the point?! Then we realised that it was inconvenient to wash hands as you can only do so in the toilet which they have just one. If it is occupied, you will need to queue to wash your hands. For the reasons above, Strike Two!

No doubt they serve their food hot from the fryer. The main attraction which was the chicken was a let down. It was moist and tender, yes. It was also tasteless! The servings were generous but they were really lack of flavour. The fries was so-so, it tasted like those frozen chunky-cut fries you can buy from the supermarket. Okay, so Strike Three! Dallas Chicken & Ribs is out!

Inconvenient location, unfriendly service, lack of ambience and bad food, we are pretty sure that we will not revisit the place again. The place is all about quantity over quality so we left the place feeling really full but not satisfied.

Despite being full, we went ahead and bought their nuggets to take away for snacks. It was pure greediness but we tried to justify ourselves by arguing that this is the first and last time we'll eat there. Thus, we should try everything that we feel like trying. Anyway, the nuggets were not too bad...

Oh, and their onion rings is the BEST!