Dinner Plates

A friend was telling of a visit to her relatives house just the other day. A thing that captured her eyes were the collection of pfaltzgraff dinnerware that were arranged nicely on the shelves in the living room.

Among them was a white dinner plate with pastel blue flowers decorated around the rim. It was exactly the double of the dinner plate that she saw when she was surfing Yahoo Food site in search of dinnerwareset. It was more exquisite to look at than the phto that she saw in the internet. She was quite happy to know that her choice of gift for Sarah's coming wedding was correct.

As per the friend, whether you're cooking dinner for family, or a gourmet meal for guests, the dinner plate is an essential part of the dinnerware collection. The important thing is to choose a dinnerware collection that is unique so that it can catch people eyes when they look at it.
I was a bit perplexed. Dinnerware are dinnerware, isn't it? You would have your food put on it and what was the fuss in finding the perfect dinnerware? Guests would appreciate the design but they would concentrate more on the food. Why spend a fortune in dinnerware or dinner plate?

Then the friend started laughing. 'Look, dinnerware in Malaysia is like awards or rare coin collections. They are for exhibition. Folks don't use them for normal everyday meals. For that, they can just use normal plates.'

'Ohh. There are normal plates and abnormal plates, then..'
'Of course. :) Where have you been all this while?