Liar

After watching Inventing Anna and Tinder Swindler , I have a new goal for my life! I want to be a good ass liar! You know it is crazy, this two person lie, fraud and betray; then they became fucking famous and rich, the victims are still wiping their ass paying their bills. After watching these stories it reminded me of one person, a drama queen big ass liar - my old boss.

Is a very long story, this guy is rich he seems like well taught good manners but weird. The first time I ever met him was at my interview, he was with his laptop talking about the idea of the restaurant, I was overwhelming cause he kept asking question almost like doubting my ability or experience. He seems smart but ignorant and arrogant, I did not really like him but I already made up my mind to quit my current job, and to be a opening team was a new thing for me, it won’t hurt to say yes to the job.

I took the job and then it was the unstoppable drama shit show, almost like a soapy drama series, everyday there would be something. By the way the whole team including FOH,BOH and dishwasher were only 8 people. I was amazed so little people so much drama, sometime limited resources activate unlimited outcome.

In the first few weeks I already knew he was a moron, this guy really did not know how to cook. He was telling me watching me spying on every move of what I did (One of my coworker even says he is Mr Xi jin ping), he was trying to find mistakes. The biggest mistake was the recipe he gave me, I have never seen a recipe laid out in volume. I have recipe in gram, in cup; I never seen a recipe in volume. Even making herbs oil who make it with eyeballing volume? I had so many question marks in my head ! Then while I was making a jelly, he insisted me to melt gelatin in certain temperature, like he was ordering me to melt gelatin in 40 celsius degree and made sure that I used a thermometer. I had more questions marks in my head, like why this was so stupid. Gelatin will melt at like 30 degree or above the only thing that I need to be aware of was just not to boiling the gelatin!

One day he was questioning me and upset because I used a thermomix to made a crumble recipe, you know what he said to me! He came over he ate some of my graham crumble and said, “why it was different? why you did not build up the gluten in the crumble!”, I am dead! Why I did not build up gluten in my crumble? why? why? somebody tells me why? To this point I just wanted to ignore him which I did, later on I totally just shouted my ears.

All of the above will just define he was a dumb cook but it won’t say he was a liar, first few month I did not realize he was lying until one day I discovered the broth was not vegetarian!

We had a vegetarian mushroom dish loved by so many of our guests, every guest could not believe the broth was veggie base, because it was so flavorful and intense. One day I received the product from the supplier and there were several pack of veal stock, then I asked the head chef where should I put away the veal stock, he replied “Just bring it over I am making the broth now”, I wondered what broth was he making? They are making the mushroom broth…

So all this time the broth were made of veal stock, the fuck! We told the guest this was a vegetarian dish, we even served it to the vegan guest, the vegetarian guest and the hindus. You think this was awful let me tell you one more thing he even put MSG in the broth. I just cannot, it brought me back to the interview scenes the guy talking and showing me all these bold ideas, all the things he wanted to do wanted to show people a new idea a new dining scene. And the guy end up was worse then a disappointment - a liar.

When I do not know the truth a lie can be a beautiful story, but when I knew the truth the story became ugly and loathe. I used to believe that this restaurant was going to be one of the most interesting exciting adventure that I will be a part of. But after all these lieSSSSS I cannot trust him, I cannot respect him, I jumped off the boat.

I was sad I was mad I was speechless just like Rachel in Inventing Anna, I felt tricked just like all the girls in Tinder Swindler. Of course he is still famous and rich, liar seems to always win in nowadays. Is time to use my npl time to train myself to be a good ass liar!