Our Endeavour with Swedish Breakfast

The success behind a successful weekend start with a sumptuous early morning breakfast and a gracious afternoon nap. But when you sleep at 4 AM after a night full of discussions, arguments and movies it becomes really difficult to get up early for the strategic meal. As usual today wasn't different we stumbled from our bed at 10: 45 Am and looked perplexed like being kicked out of a magnificent dream.

We argued for another 15 minutes on the ideal late morning breakfast and upon the revelation that Ikea has reduced its breakfast rate to 4 Dhs we didn't think further. As the breakfast is served only till 11: 30 we dressed up, brushed our teeth's and rushed to the location.

Reaching there we found two counters one with a crowded premier show feel and another relatively deserted one, we opted for the later only to find out shortly that it was meant for lunch. So all the people waiting on the other Que was for our planned breakfast and eventually we became too late for the deal.

We were not ready to give up so out of our necessity we stumbled upon ready made plates of Swedish breakfast "eureka" we didnt think twice and hurried to the counter. When the bar code detector beeped the dishes turned out to be 19 and not 7 as we had seen (first tragedy) so three plates of Swedish breakfast put us back by 57 dhs against the planned 12 dhs (4 X 3). We gathered our nerves and the little self respect left with us and payed up the exhorted bill that was presented to us.

We managed to find an empty table to sit for the three of us in the middle of all the hustle and bustle. We looked both happy and sad at the same time, happy for making it to the breakfast after all the struggle and sad for paying the princely sum for an unknown breakfast.

I was the first one to notice that the dish contained raw slices of fish, uncooked prawns and more slices of fresh salmon. It also included a couple of meat balls, bread with cheese slices, little bit of jam and and some mayonnaise decorated with vegetables and leaves. The dish as a whole was designed very pleasingly to attract any wayward eyes.We started tasting each item separately and had enough of it after the first few bites, it was a disaster to the core, the hurry, the exaggerated rates and finally the exotic tasteless taste.

We looked at each other with our bewildered faces like being pushed out of a running plane without parachutes.Left the whole thing on the table and walked out of the food court like being robbed in the daylight out of our last penny. We learned a big lessonout of this special experience, don't take what you don't know about, you don't know everything like you think you know, if things can go wrong it will and finally everything that is set into a beautiful plate will not be a culinary marvel.

To conclude i am still hungry and have that odd taste lingering in my mouth waiting to come out any time without any notice. Hopefully i will recover from this and nurse my tastebuds back to health in no time.

Namashkar