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Lamma-Gung · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 4:40 am Post subject: Great place

One of my favorite places in YSW!

It's open from something like 6am till around 7pm, selling way over 50 sandwich/drink sets in the morning, being the main breakfast/lunch provider to our office workers, together with Green Cottage...

Great juices, hot dogs, baked potatoes with any topping, but also salads. My current lunch favorites:
Tuna Fish Croissant and Cream Cheese Blueberry Bagel!

Cheapest fruits ($2) & soft drinks ($5) of any restaurant I know; and very friendly, professional service from hotel-trained Ah-Can.

Great people-watching at this cross-section of main Street and Back Street, when sitting inside. See my "Watching Lamma Passing By..." story.

Below are a few ad posters I created for their displays recently, just as a little friendly favor:

webdog · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 6:28 am Post subject:

Whenever I walk pass that road, I always stop by for a Mango-Coconut milk drink for $15. And to go with a $8 saliva-teasing-as-French-kiss-beef-satay from the opposite shop. The toll adds up to $23, pretty expensive walk for this humble dog. Can somebody advise how I can walk to the beach from the main road without using that road leading to Pizza Milano? Appreciate!

e · Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 9:49 am Post subject:

Norseman · Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 9:53 pm Post subject:

If there was an award for 'The Happiest Man on Lamma', the guy who works at this place would win it hands down. Early in the morning, going to the ferry, hungover and pissed off, I think he is a better picker-upper than the coffee he serves. Mango coconut juice sounds good, shall try it if it is being recommended.

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 10:28 pm Post subject: Hahahahaha

e · Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 11:41 pm Post subject: Can & Winnie

Can & Winnie are true animal lovers too! Just look at the number of dogs and cats who love to go into his shop for treats, or just a shade from the sun. Can loves them all.

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 8:00 pm Post subject: 85% female customers!

Tropicana must be the best spot to watch pretty ladies in the morning!

Amazing fact, confirmed by Ah-Can in Tropicana:
About 85% of his very numerous customers in the morning (6-8:30am) are FEMALE!.

They're picking up one of the about 15 types of sandwiches & coffee/tea/fruit juice ($20), power-dressed and in a hurry on their way to the ferry to the office.

MOST of the customers are not Chinese, but many other Western & Asian nationalities.
Many of them are very pretty, and Ah-Can has his ways of making them smile...
(I'm allowed to watch, as Lamma-Po is watching with me occasionally during breakfast. Ah-Can was thinking of charging us admission...)

I wonder why, but you can see it for yourself. Often there are 5-10 female customers in a row.

And in Aroy Thai most of the customers are male, often served by a Thai woman... Laughing

e · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 6:43 pm Post subject:

let's see if ah-can goes on leave for a couple of days and the lovely mrs ah-can takes over, will the demography of their patrons change? perhaps then, lamma-po would be there every morning?

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 7:06 pm Post subject:

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 8:10 pm Post subject:

I've found out what's really attracting so many people to Tropicana!

It's Barney, the cute, caramel-colored dog with the droopy eyes and kid-friendly manner! So many people cannot walk by without greeting and petting him, it seems. It's really amazing! If I'd be THAT popular...

It's not even Ah-Can's dog, he belongs to Golding of the former Golding bathroom appliances shop, now home to Emily's Ice-cream Parlor.

The only fee he charges for attracting the crowds and being the mascot of Tropicana is an occasional snack!

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 2:22 pm Post subject: Only $18!

I just found the best-value, sweetest fruit salad in the village:

webdog · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 7:54 am Post subject:

Besides the fresh fruit juice, the sandwiches in the morning are also bloody well made. Nice job ah Can!

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject: New desserts

Having a peek into the new dessert fridge outside Tropicana...

The strawberry and blueberry mousses are my favourites, even though I haven't tried all of these $15 choices yet.
Chinese customers seem to prefer the mango and chocolate mousses, according to Ah-Can.

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