Meat Market

There is a dearth of places to buy good salami and pepperoni and the like. It seems when Kit wants to make pizza, the biggest challenge is to find somewhere which will provide great toppings. We used to go to Cold Storage at Subang Parade for pretty decent pepperoni.  When they stopped selling cold cuts and crammed the chiller in front of the ice cream freezers with assorted crap, we moved to the Cold Storage at IPC. 

That outlet soon also discontinued the products and we went to the non-halal section in the IPC Cold Storage when we bought some amazing chorizo and salami, but ended up spending over RM150 for them. 

Abandon hope all who enter here!

My father spoke enough times about the butchery in Lucky Garden which was part of the TMC group of shops. While TMC has been bought over by Giant, it still retains its own name and identity and has managed to also offer a wine and spirits shop in the same row as the original shop. 

Looks like a deli, serves like a bad Subway.

It's not point braving the mad traffic for bad product and dismal service.

So off we went, Kit and I, to brave the Saturday traffic to TMC Butchery. The offerings looked pretty good, but the service was lousy. We waited a long time for the lone guy who took about 20 minutes to slice some ham to turn around to wait on us. A Caucasian lady came to buy some bangers, asked about another sausage and was completely ignored by the Chinese lady who was serving the sausage counter. In the end Madam Expat went off with just her one order. Without even getting an answer about the other type she was looking at. Lost sale! 

The time it took for the Myanmar boy to slice my 200 grams of chorizo helped me change my mind about trying any other salami. Another lost sale. 

Good help is really hard to get these days, I understand, but truly this is the worst way to run a business. The original owners of TMC, the Teng brothers, would have been very, very disappointed. 

Postscript: we were also very, very disappointed at the chorizo we got. It was awful. It tasted like Chinese cured sausage (lap cheong) gone wrong. Massive fail!