Bubba Gump Shrimp Company

This year we celebrated Father's Day 2 days earlier to avoid the Sunday crowd. After much deliberation, we decided to try out Bubba Gump Shrimp Company at the Curve. The whole concept about the restaurant inspired by the Forrest Gump movie is rather interesting. Note: they even have a small shop right beside the restaurant selling Bubba Gump merchandise!

When we got there around 7:30PM, the place was packed. Since we didn't have reservation we had to wait for the next available table. Once we were seated, "Dr Bombay" came to take our order. A rather stocky Indian chappy [who probably had one too many shrimps.. ha ha ha] I couldn't tell if he was local cos his English was heavily laced with an Indian accent I can barely understand. Half the time I was trying to figure out what he was saying.

While waiting for our food to arrive, Dr Bombay had to come over again and quiz us with Forrest Gump movie trivias (!!!) First he asked if we had seen Forrest Gump the movie (why of course even both my parents have seen it) then he started to ask a series of Forrest Gump movie trivias.. I strained my ears to catch what he was asking and it didn't help that we were sitting outdoor thus it was really noisy. Luckily the food arrived in the nick of time after he had asked the second question.

On each table there's a metal bucket filled with various bottles of sauce, a roll of paper napkin and that bucket is attached to a ping pong bat with the drinks and dessert menu on it. The restaurant has a really unique paging system for its waiters consisting of two license plates with blue "Run Forrest Run" and red "Stop Forrest Stop". If you need to call for a waiter, just flip the plate over to "Stop Forrest Stop".

Bubba Gump serves mostly seafood though I did see a few chicken and steak items on the menu. I didn't find the food particularly tasty but the portions are huge [at that price they'd better be] and the service is pretty efficient. The peanut butter smoothie is yummy! :)

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get"