Weird Salad

Had lunch with a bunch of colleagues on Friday at Beppu Mekan restaurant at Far East Square. It is one of my favorite places to go for ramen... if you are familiar with the spicy kind of ramen that comes with a choice of 1 chilli, 2 chillis, 4 chillis, 6 and the ultimatum... 8 chillis which is sufficient to send one into half comatose, with swollen sausage lips...

I decided that since I have been feeling guilty with my diet recently and no yoga class for 2 weeks, I decided to opt for salad instead. The restaurant offered three kinds of salad... cant quite recall what exactly, think they have garden salad and the one I thought interesting to try was, Thai Lemon Grass Salad... which I ordered and arrived in the picture below:

I was like... what the hell is that manz? The whole dish was a mixture of spring onions (which I hate), onions (which I dun really fancy raw), chilli padi (yes I like that), and loads and loads of sliced lemon grass (see those small white rings?) - the whole dish was really lemon grass and to me, lemon grass is like a spice... not like the main leaves for a SALAD? OMG... my colleagues were like laughing when they saw my SALAD, which oh yes came with a few pieces of lettuce on the side for you to wrap the salad mixture in like a popiah...

As you might well guess... it was a sad and unfulfilling lunch for me and most of the lemon grass and spring onions and onions stayed pretty much in the same state that they arrived in... oh the only saving grace of the dish was that it came with a sprinkling of dried shrimp and cashew nuts which I picked at miserably throughout my sad lunch...