Blogger’s Night From Orange Clove
I was invited to a food tasting session on Friday evening, organized by Orange Clove, a subsidiary of Neo Group. The session was held at a function room in Botanic Garden.
Before giving any feedback, I would like to apologize to the organizers. Both my partner and I had very long and tiring week, so we were really tired, exhausted and stoned after work on Friday when we were there. Honestly I didn’t feel like smiling at all. I nearly decided not going because of the rain and the location. And, because of that, we left early as well. We didn’t stay till the end of the event. And, I was just too tired and lazy to take any photo, though I have brought along my camera and I did have a camera phone with me.
This is the 1st time I attended a food tasting event, and 1st time I attended a bloggers event as Jialat. Well, I think I am still not used to it.
I think, the organizers are very creative to organize an event like this to promote the company and products. From what I saw, the whole team is very young, energetic and friendly. I believe that they do read blogs, are familiar with most of the bloggers there. The event is in the kind of very friendly, relaxed atmosphere. But at the same time, they showed their inexperience in event organizing. To me, it is kind of bad that the organizers did not prepare enough seats for all the guests, when all the guests attending had already RSVP. I could see they prepared lots of door gifts to hand out to the bloggers. However, the seats were just too little. You did not expect your guests to stand through the whole 2 hours, listening to your presentation, tasting the food and wine, talking, chatting, ect, right?
As for the food, it is OK, or slightly above average to me. I believe, that was not their best shot, during the event. My favourite were the pasta and cheesecake. The fish with asparagus was said to be one of the most wanted dishes on their menu, but I didn’t find it tasty. It could be due to whatever reason, which I am not sure, but I am sure that it was not the best they can do. It was a pity that they did not manage to present the best in such an event.
It is a good try. Thumbs up to the team for coming up with this idea. I hope there will be other events coming up for bloggers. It is great to see blogger bringing the parents along. You don’t see this often in bloggers event, right?
