How I Got Free Pasta Today

Shirley Lee
15 min readMar 17, 2024
Let’s not put the actual picture of the pasta up as the thumbnail. Source

I was taking a stroll in the food area of a shopping mall to scout for a place for lunch today. I had looked at most of the weekday lunch set menus of most restaurants there; I had also checked out all of the food available at the shopping mall’s food court.

While I was walking to the last restaurant that was closest to the entire food court to check out their menu, a staff member of the shopping mall suddenly stopped me and asked,

“Would you like free pasta? We are giving out free pasta.”

“… What?”

“Yes, our shopping mall is doing a promotional campaign where we pay for people’s lunch on Fridays. We’re now giving out free dishes of Soft-shell Crab Spaghetti in Truffle Cream Sauce. All you need to do is take a picture of the plate of pasta and post it to your Instagram with this handle of the shopping mall and this hashtag,” she said, pointing at a promotional card.

I immediately said yes.

I was promptly seated and was told that the free pasta dish came with a complimentary drink. I ordered an Iced Americano.

When the food arrived, I took the promotional pasta picture quickly and posted it to my Instagram stories. The staff member from the shopping mall checked the photo I posted and told me to show the restaurant her promotional card at the…

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