perhaps not wise...

...to continue eating at a place we call charcoal

it's a burger joint near the office, and i'd say the burgers are decent enough; the rest of the menu i really can't speak much of - other than to say, perhaps, that if you're hungry, it will do.

at the very least it's a bit different from the daily fare at the other eateries on the street.

now, this is not the first time that elements of an insect-like persuasion have been in or near food in charcoal: once before, there was a tiny roach in someone's coffee...

but this was a sort of eye-opener, as if the roach-coffee wasn't enough.

just had lunch there, and my technical co-worker's order arrived first, a roast beef burger. as he's eating, i notice another small roach on a walkabout, antennae twitching as it obviously smelled the food. now, there's a bit of tilework on charcoal's interior, and to this my eye was drawn.

first, one, then two and then more pairs of antennae began popping out of the bottom of the tile band on the wall. i stopped counting at 8 pairs and we then moved to another table.

...apparently, a regimen of regular insecticide application may not be part of the place's operational must-do's...

but that's just an assumption on my part given the evidence this day.

so it's either mcdo or hotshots or brothers for a burger fix from now on...