Labour Day Lobster Roll

Had no real plans for Labour Day, so when Nice Catch announced that they were giving away 100 free lobster rolls, I figured why not.

Again, I don't know what time the first people in line got there, but there was already a line and I only joined around 11.30 a.m. because it was still going to be quite a wait. No, I wasn't kaypoh enough to ask. 

Have to like that one of the T&Cs was that no under-18s allowed a free lobster roll, after years of entire families take up space and numbers in line and me being annoyed AF about it. But I figured their parents could always order something else for their offspring. 

Fast forward 2 hours in line later: they literally only started to check everyone's Facebook accounts (one of the T&C was that you needed to like and share the particular post) and for everyone to give their details on a clipboard at 1 p.m. on the dot. The first 20 something people were seated first, and they were only turning tables every half hour, so I technically only got inside around 1.30 p.m.. And they allocated some of the tables, if not half the place, for actual PAYING customers. 

Me and 4 other people, as the first few of our batch, we got to occupy the bar/chef's table seating next to the open air kitchen. So the chef gave us not just a portion of truffle-infused chips, but also a side salad with some salmon on top. I can't complain about that. They were not kidding about how everything's made to order: chips were fried and truffle oil infused to order, the rolls and greens were assembled to order. No wonder the wait. 

This was before we all got the lobster roll, which thankfully was pretty good; the lobster wasn't totally coated in mayo or whatever, the brioche bun was deliciously buttery. Okaylah, it might've been the hanger talking (the guy ahead of me was supposed to be working today [StanChart employee, I gathered from the lanyard] and he was getting hangry too). Now I'm not sure if it was really good, or if it was because I had been waiting in line for 2 hours.... But I did manage to finish the lot, so I'm glad that it was only a half roll. 

Better free half roll than paid half roll 

They also have a promo where you can get two half lobster rolls for RM69 and two full sized lobster rolls for RM109. The chef had a point when he said they wanted to make lobster more accessible for people. He didn't mention Burger & Lobster by name, but we all knew that's what he meant. I can't remember how much the latter were, but yeah, this is definitely more affordable and accessible than B&L. 

I had wanted to get a drink afterwards and I realised that I forgot my wallet. I wasn't entirely sure if I had enough small change to scrape up to pay for parking so I finally made use of Maybank's cardless withdrawal. Since I had my phone it was just a matter of initiating the transaction on the app and  Bob's my uncle. Never mind that I had to suck it up and pay the RM1.06 transaction fee, but yeah. Thought it was a good time to get home since I can't do much else sans wallet and I had another thing I had to go to.