queues...not worth doing

i have done many queues in my life for things which some people deem silly or crazy. but isn't that the joy of life? to do silly and crazy things and especially when you are not doing it alone.

and recently i did two, both also in mid valley and both were for food. love good food but scared of putting on weight at the same time. haha...

 the first one is for dim sum at tim ho wan. my friend and i queues for almost 1 hours since 10a.m. on a saturday morning and we ordered these 8 dishes for both of us.

errrr.....quite a lot right....
the only thing worth mentioning in the collage above is the baked char siu pau. that is one of their 4 heavenly dishes in the menu.. i am not into the other 3 but i heard the steamed egg cake is not that good. their cheong fun is a bit too thick and i have eaten better ones.

click the photo above and you will see the enlarged one with al the prices on the menu. the food is on the slightly expensive side....but i dont think this is one place ppl will go everytime they want to have dim sum. it will definitely break the bank and there are not that many choices to choose from as well.

so is it worth the queue?? nope. try going after lunch hour, you won't even have to queue for 15 minutes if there are just 2 of you. those who come in two get seated faster compared to those who come in a bigger group. i will only go again the next time they open up their take-away counter and the only thing i will buy will be the baked char siu pau.

the second queue which i did is  for magnum ice-cream at the newly opened magnum cafe.
i queued for the seated area upstairs and it took us about half an hour. crazy huh? half an hour just for ice-cream!!!

and it's only for magnum....something which you can buy from the shop outside without any queue.
well, not quite lah. ours came with some additions of pavlova, fruits and baked cookies.
the four of us just managed to finish what we ordered and it was actually more than enough for our apetite. there was just too much of other stuff and not enough of ice-cream.
the bill came up to more than rm60. again, another dent in the pocket. we concluded that it was not worth paying so much for what we ordered. the menu was still limited and a number of things were not available although shown on the menu.

so no more second time at magnum cafe for me thank you.

i wonder if the novelty will wear off once the new year begins and school holidays end. tim ho wan will be opening its second outlet in one utama and magnum already has its second outlet in puchong.

i will go back to my dim sum shops in ipoh and the magnum i can get at petron station in tm.