"A few weeks ago" was St Patricks Day. And we DID then hit the Highlander after that round of disappointing drinks..a typical selection of whisky there too, so i settled for Bushmills (it WAS St patricks day...) But the service was great there, prob because they are starving for business, but we dug it.

Ha...I was probably the only one standing at the bar with a smile on my face (when i walked up at least!) Thanks Chewwy, but im not sure I really need a primer on proper bar etiquette. But I did have higher expectations given the 'foreign ownership' and relatively strong marketing campaign compared to other pubs.

Another weird issue was how the money was handled. Seems like all the cash was held in a location in the back of the bar. When I paid (and then when the others in my party paid), the bartender took the cash to back of the building somewhere and we each waited a few munited for our change. kinda annoying too, but maybe it had something to do with the St Particks Day events, i dont know.

Anyways...the food looked good...

Im surprised you liked the highlander as I find there is little or no atmosphere to be found there. The owner is a complete bastard who really has done some questionable things with his staff and was also known to his short measures, watering of the drinks and reduction of food portions.

As for the money going to somewhere else I seem to remember it's exactly the same practice at the highlander. I think a lot of Jakarta landlords seem to think it's safer having one person work the cash register than have 10 girls with access to all the money.

Happy drinking ... although you should switch to vodka

Im surprised you liked the highlander as I find there is little or no atmosphere to be found there. The owner is a complete bastard who really has done some questionable things with his staff and was also known to his short measures, watering of the drinks and reduction of food portions.

Yeah, the Highlander was the only place really doin it up for St Patties, except for the dancers at EP. Highlander had tons of decorations and was giving away pretty good prizes including a night at tehe hotel. Half the ppl in my group won prizes, 500,000 gift certificates if i remember correctly. But, yeah, it was kinda dead, maybe at 1/3 capacity, but enough for a little vibe. Prob wont go back too often , but def will next year st. pats.

Wow .. seems like that captain Mbak can't go a single day without having somebody want to give him her a punch in the face.

Wow .. seems like that <s>captain</s> Mbak can't go a single day without having somebody want to give <s>him</s> her a punch in the face.

back in the queue, please, back in the queue!!

Dear Mr Atlas, Thank you very much for the weightlifting course that I ordered and was delivered by courier this morning. However upon opening the box I note that you have forgotten to include the muscles.

F you MbakAditya. The bartender didnt short me because of any attitude of mine. I didnt even get to relate similar issues my friends faced that same night (who ordered their drinks before the bartender knew they were with me). My two 'local' friends got poor service too. Oh, and none of us are students, not sure where u got that.

And i didnt moan as much there to the manager because it seemed like everyone working were running around the house and i just didnt care enough at the time to make a big deal of it once it had already happened. If I has asked to talk to the owner/manager, you would have commented here that i had an inflated sense of self-worth by asking for the manager, ya?

And i didnt go neat because jakarta is fuckin hot. I like ice, mo'fo'. And if you're affiliated with EP, I'll surely stay away now, unless its to meet you face to face, punk. My g'friend can throw a mean punch too.

Bartelle has a couple fun establishements so i figured EP would be the same or better. Sorry Lens. Maybe it was just a few bad apples.

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For your information, 1 pour is considered to be 25ml or 1/6 of a gill, two pours or a double would therefor be ... you guessed it double that. A bottle used to contain 32 shots, now the measure is 30.

Not sure where you've been drinking, but a strict 1 shot pour is 30ml (20% more than you've been getting) or 1oz. Any bar worth its weight pours 1.5oz, closer to 45ml FOR A SINGLE, almost twice what you'd serve in your dream pub! Now, of course you can play with price regardless of size, maybe we pay more for those 1.5oz shots, but no one wants to sip on 1oz of any liquid (except my girlfriend (wink wink), and you apparently.)

Now, where could I have got that from .....

Ahh the little things we do avoid imigrasi problems. But then again, i DID have a slew of private tutors, so i guess you got me there. Maybe you were one of them, big shot. No wonder you think you know so much about 25ml drinks, on that tight budget.

What a load of tosh.

Not being the average piss artist, I am able to order and consume as I wish. To be honest I tend to pour my own measures as price/volume is not a constraint.

I can imagine you needing a "slew" of private tutors - problem child were you? odd "learning difficulty" perhaps?

Ahh, a decade of hard work turned into a lot of money and free time, so why not get some tutors. The last thing i want to end up as is one of these 'expat experts' like yourself that have been here for years with really nothing to show for it but an addiction to posting pithy retorts (fuckin talk normal would you?) and a chronic passion for basking in 'the mysterious Orient'. Im gonna cry b/c i feel so inadequate after reading your constant anthopological insights on Indonesia...so deep..Ive only been in-country for a few years, so please, big daddy, i humbly solicit your input before my opinions on jakarta can be ligitimized...

i bet you ended up here b/c youre a fucking modern hippie looking for enlightment or something. And wound up with no skills transferable to anywhere else. so lets face it, your stuck here here, reinforced by the fact that this is the easiest place for u to get pussy. I guess being around a bunch of non-english ppl that you think 'were in trees' so recently makes you KING of the beasts! sweeeeett!! Oh, you know Indonesia like no one else. Wow. Been here for years? So impressive. Youre the Jakarta Mac Daddy.

fuckin weirdo.

but then again, i have been known to solve problems with violence, so maybe i can get you eat em.

youre the cocksucker who couldnt deal with my 'bar review'.