Hello,

tonight a pretty weird situation encountered, and I'm totally feeling insecure now. Although I felt that I'm an experienced Thailand-traveller, I'm not sure at all whether I have overreacted or not.

I went to a quite expensive tourist restaurant, mainly frequented by farangs, even mentioned in the lonely planet-guidebook. When I got the first course and the drink, the waitress made a grimace and told me: "You are looking like [name of a stupid British comedian which I don't like]". I did not understand properly and asked her to repeate. She repeated by doing the same grimace. She repeated it a third time and started laughing. I really felt that she makes a fool of myself.

This was the moment I asked her (politely) to speak the owner. The owner came and asked what's wrong, and I told to the waitress to repeat what she said 3 times to me. In this moment, she looked away. I explained to the owner what was going on and that I'm not really amused. And that this kind of customer-relation spoiled my appetite, and I wish to cancel the second course. Finally I left the restaurant without touching my food, with the words that I don't feel like a guest here. The owner apologized and let me go. I tried hard to remain externally calm (and I guess that no other guest really realized what was going on), but almost exploded internally. I really took it the wrong way in this moment.

Some hours later I calmed a bit down, had dinner somewhere else, but don't know whether my reaction was appropriate or not.
I really felt that the attitude of the waitress was unprofessional and without respect, and don't know whether I had to put up with this (with the risk that the next guest will be threated as "you look like Donald Duck" or "you look like Miss Piggy"), or if I'm now the bad falang without any sense of humour. It was not my intention that the waitress risks to loose her job, but in a restaurant where a dinner costs 500 Baht and more I simply wish to be threated with the necessary respect.

Or am I totally wrong now? Totally weird, this situation... shall I go back there tomorrow, apologize myself and pay for the food I did not touch...? Maybe it's a glory to be called "Mr. Bean" in Thailand?