Only in the D.R. you make a MISTAKE x 3 and people will smile at you. ONly in the D.R. the guy you almost kill driving you car will say SORRY TO YOU!
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i like asking a Dominican something that he does not know [mostly everything] and he answers back with Dominican nose lenguage. Nose up 2 times means ask me again. Nose up and down means forget it.
The best one and the most bothersome is asking someone when they will meet you that afternoon. They say in the tardycito. That means sometime in the afternoon or night or not at all. You just have to wait to find out. At least you find out when the resturants close.
I travel around the country a lot and have a number of regular restaurants that I visit. (both stand alone and in hotels) I don't take chances anymore with the screwed up orders. If I have a problem ONE time, and sometimes even without a bad history, I go to the kitchen and talk to the cook.
Unbelievably (or not) it still gets screwed up some of the time.
Thats's because their short term memory can't hold more than one item at a time - by the time you finished telling your list, he'd forget everything except the last item. If you want anything done in DR, you gotta keep feeding it one thing at a time.
Yesterday I revisited an Italian restaurant. I was just there about a week ago. Its owned and run by an Italian lady and her dominican husband/boyfriend. I asked for an entree I had last week. The dominican dude remembered what I had. To be sure, we went over the details to get it straight. The meal comes, and along with the chicken I asked for, it's filled with pork meat. I never asked for that. I told him I only wanted chicken. So I guess when he went back to tell her to prepare the meal he never gave her specific instructions on what my order was. Instead she probably did it the way she always does it. Here's where the lack of listening comes in. I couldnt finish the meal, so I asked her to come to my table. I asked her to prepare my food to go and give me the bill to pay. She brings my food all nicely wrapped but didnt bring the bill. It's obvious Im done, why wouldnt she bring the bill anyway? I must have given her a puzzled look because she then asks, "la cuenta?". I said "Si". In that little time she couldnt remember to bring the bill, only that she needed to prepare my food to go. Its amazing how often this behavior is manifested.
there is a beautiful night club in POP which caters to the upper crust crowd. i went there for the first time last night, and fell in love with the place. sad thing is that i could not stay to finish my bottle of wine. the service was great, the crowd was mellow, and i would have stayed forever had it not been for the fact that i could not converse in the place, because the music was deafening.
i can understand the bone jarring volumes in the rancho tipico and the colmadon, but that one bewildered me.
I had the same experience last saturday in an upscale restaurant in SD. It's one of the fanciest places of the city, we (my wife and I) don't get to go out much, with 4 small children, so when saturday we had a chance I took her to this place, trying not to think about the bill..... Food was fine (although in the past I have eaten better at the same place), we had a good time, but we both find the music was way too loud. The place is packed with young adults and maybe I should realize I don't fit in that category anymore, but I prefer a somewhat more quiet place, where you can talk while having dinner.
Only in the DR
Having had the misfortune of being a home owner in the USSA, I hired many professionals to fix things/make things right over the years. But only in the DR have I ever met an electrician who is also a plumber. And not particularly good at either profession! But a really nice man and not expensive. So I keep hiring him. Only in the DR!
Having had the misfortune of being a home owner in the USSA, I hired many professionals to fix things/make things right over the years. But only in the DR have I ever met an electrician who is also a plumber. And not particularly good at either profession! But a really nice man and not expensive. So I keep hiring him. Only in the DR!
Also, only in the DR: those ubiquitous little striped plastic bags that they just love. When I want to get a laugh out of US friends who have visited here, I send them a present (doesn't matter what it is) wrapped in one of those little baggies. Or just give them a package of those little funditas. The pink & white ones are very popular.
i tried to bear it, because some of my friends from Guyana asked me to shoot over and kill some time with them. the time almost killed me.
if you meet a worthwhile woman in POP, who rises to the level where she merits more than El Furgon, there is only one place i have seen where you can actually have a conversation with her without shouting, and that is Skina, right across from the post office, close to RUSA. best fajitas in the country, too. everywhere else, it?s earplugs time.
Really? You dont need a break dude. It makes no difference if you live here or just visiting. Nobody who doesnt matter can tell you what to do with your money or how you choose to take care of your own wants or needs. You do you, and if a waiter or somebody else has a problem with it, its their problem, not yours. If anything, its a dummy who listens to someone who tells him not to go out because he aint supposed to explain how he wants his food prepared. Only in the DR! Would that be an issue with a select few, when its perfectly understandable anywhere else.
Ohhh I dunno.. I'm one of those that go to a restaurant, order what I want and EXPECT to get what I ordered. I also like Steak.. Big ol fat Rib Eye is my favorite. Unfortunately, Not too many Restaurants in the DR have a clue how to burn a steak, So I tell them politely to: Season the meat and put it on the hottest part of the grill. Two minutes on one side, and two minutes on the other. Perfect (hot in the middle) rare steak. I never seem to have a problem except from the occasional 200lb tonsofun waitress with a fattitude but then we just go somewhere else..
it's one thing to order steak from the menu and when asked how do you want it done respond with "two minutes on one side, two minutes on the other". it's another thing to order cheeseburger but without cheese and with ciabatta instead of a bun, hold the lettuce, add more pickles, one spoon of ketchup, fat free mayo, meat patty made from minced turkey and so on...