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First dates can be expensive. But one man recently spent almost S$800 — and still got ghosted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A man in Singapore recently went on Reddit to share what he described as his most expensive first date ever, after a woman he met on a dating app allegedly ordered an extravagant meal at Imperial Treasure Fine Teochew Cuisine at ION Orchard.<\/p>\n
He said it was actually the woman was the one who chose the restaurant, and even asked him to pick her up from her workplace.<\/p>\n
As the man doesn\u2019t drive, he booked a Grab ride and added an extra stop to pick her up.<\/p>\n
When they arrived at the restaurant, she allegedly handed him her bags to carry. Then came dinner, where she reportedly offered to order for both of them.<\/p>\n
According to the man, he had never been to the restaurant before and wasn’t familiar with its prices.<\/p>\n
She ordered Australian lobster, poached live prawns, braised sea cucumber in oyster sauce and double-boiled fish maw soup with shark cartilage. There were also vegetables with crab meat, steamed rice, orange juice, pickles and pu-erh tea.<\/p>\n
The bill, including service charge and GST, came up to a whopping S$741.<\/p>\n
“I pay it. I don’t ask her anything,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
No argument, or awkward discussion about splitting the bill.<\/p>\n
And apparently, that still wasn’t the end of his spending for the evening.<\/p>\n
After dinner, the pair chatted for a while before deciding to call it a night.<\/p>\n
That’s when the woman reportedly asked him to book her a Grab ride home which cost S$42.<\/p>\n
To be fair, the Redditor said he wasn’t particularly upset at that point. “Still didn’t feel bad. Maybe she enjoys expensive stuff,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
In total, the dinner and her ride home alone came to S$783, excluding the earlier Grab ride to pick her up.<\/p>\n
And there was apparently going to be a second date.<\/p>\n
During the following week, the man asked whether she’d like to catch a movie, though she insisted on watching it at the most expensive cinema option. And yes, she also wanted him to book another Grab ride to pick her up from home.<\/p>\n
“I was sceptical, but I said okay and I’ll let her know which date works for me,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
The woman suggested a date, which he agreed to, although he hadn’t booked anything yet.<\/p>\n
Then, two days before they were supposed to meet, he fell sick and told her they would have to reschedule.<\/p>\n
According to him, she became angry, stopped replying and eventually ghosted him.<\/p>\n
As expected, netizens had much to say.<\/p>\n
“Only my mother and father are worth being treated to $700 meal,” one commented.<\/p>\n
Another wrote: “All the signs of a gold digger and you still went along with it. Take it as an expensive lesson and learn from this experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another suggested that the issue wasn’t necessarily generosity, but his difficulty in setting boundaries.\u00a0Others advised him to choose a reasonably priced restaurant for first dates and not feel pressured to pay simply to avoid an awkward situation.<\/p>\n
The OP later admitted that this was exactly what had happened.<\/p>\n
“I am scared of going on dates now. She was the one to order and I didn’t know the prices of the dish. I didn’t check before. That was my mistake. And also, I did what you mentioned. I didn’t know how to say no when she asked. It was so awkward. And I was thinking I should be a gentleman. But it was already too much after I had just paid for the bill. And I had thought she genuinely liked me back too.”<\/p>\n
Of course, some Redditors were sceptical about the whole encounter.<\/p>\n
“This story sounds unreal,” wrote one commenter.<\/p>\n
The man subsequently updated his post with a list of the dishes allegedly ordered at Imperial Treasure to explain how the bill could have reached S$741.<\/p>\n
Umm\u2026 Maybe just stick to coffee dates in the future?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n