tgif brekkie is 'Total-Garbage-I-Feel!'

TGI Friday's is taking it one meal further by serving breakfast, but only at its Hap Seng outlet. As part of its introductory promotion, till 18th July, we can now enjoy the second brekkie set free (the cheaper one) with the purchase of a first one. Sounds terrific right? Plus it's TGIF, so quality must be assured.

Me and pardner decided to try it out one Friday morning, since it was just a short walk from my office. After scrutinising the menu (not all sets include coffee/ tea and juice), we opted for the American Breakfast (which had 2 types of beverage)...

and Three Stack Pancakes.

It was brekkie in al-fresco style - works in the States but in Malaysia, not a very pleasant experience dining in the hot weather amongst the stench of overnight uncollected garbage which was located just beside the restaurant. What a first impression...

Not happy that it took quite a while before our drinks arrived, given we were only the second seated table.
Lagi not happy that they only had coffee ready at that time. Though refillable, don't think anyone would actually want a second cup of this...

dun recall ordering Diluted Black Coffee!

Non-refillable kiddy-sized Orange Juice

The slosh of milk you see is all because their !@#$ milk teapots did not have this little nip to allow a smooth flow of milk into the coffee. =_=

The only satisfactory thing about brekkie was their American Breakfast. Loved every bit of it especially the runny scrambled eggs (my style!), tasty Hash brown and homemade Orange Marmalade Jam. Would you have paid the normal price of RM 9.90++ for this?

 It was another 10-minute wait for the Pancakes and just as we were hoping it to be a really good treat, the waitress brought us this.

wtf, you call these hard, overcooked fugly-looking flat things...pancakes?!! and where's the butter??

Even I could make them better blind-folded!

Such crummy quality coming from a reknown place like TGI Friday's. Even after we questioned the waitress, she dared to claim THAT is indeed how their pancakes look like. Aw, come on, guyssssssss...we ain't five-year olds!

There was just no compromising, and we demanded for a change to the American Breakfast, only to be told that they've ran out of Hash browns and replaced it with baked beans(!). Urgh, talk about keeping stock. Sunny-side eggs turned out to be very raw in the centre - i could still see the liquid egg whites...eww.
And they've replaced the marmalade with butter(?!)

What a shame a blogger (me) had to go through such a horrid dining experience and now, it's plastered all over the internet. Lesson to TGIF - don't start something new if you are not ready for it. 

If not for the Buy1 Free1 promo, or the fact that this happened on Friday, my mood would have been crankier and my reaction.....detrimental!