Diary - A couple of hours ago

[Maybo]

This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

A couple of hours ago, my mum and I had a dinner in a Chinese restaurant. In the middle of our meal, the customers next to our table ordered the dishes according to ours. At first, I thought they wouldn't order exactly the same dishes. Until I heard they told a waiter that the Hot&Sour soup was too spicy and no ordinary people could eat it, I realised that they had the same soup. If I were one of them, I would've asked our opinions. I couldn't stomach the spiciness too. It seemed as if I tricked them indirectly.

 

[emsr2d2]

A couple of hours ago, my mum and I had a dinner in a Chinese restaurant. In the middle of our meal, the customers at the next to our table ordered the dishes according to ours the same food we had. At first, I thought they wouldn't order exactly the same dishes. Until However, when I heard they told them tell a waiter that the Hot & Sour soup was too spicy and no ordinary people person could eat it, I realised that they had the same soup it too. If I were one of them, I would've asked us for our opinions on the soup. I couldn't stomach the spiciness too either.

See above.

It seemed as if I tricked them indirectly.

I don't understand this.

 

[Maybo]

I don't understand this.

I guess they thought what we had ordered were delicious, but actually I didn’t like the soup. It seemed as if we fooled them indirectly into ordering the soup.

 

[emsr2d2]

I guess they thought what we had ordered were was delicious, but actually I didn’t like the soup. It seemed as if we fooled them indirectly into ordering the soup.

Presumably, if you didn't like the soup, you didn't actually eat it. I would have thought that the fact that you didn't eat it would have been a big clue to them that you hadn't enjoyed it. Having said that, people have very different palates. If I saw that someone else in a restaurant had left most of a meal, that wouldn't necessarily put me off ordering it.
I don't think your use of "fooled them" or "indirectly" fit here at all.

 

[Maybo]

Presumably, if you didn't like the soup, you didn't actually eat it. I would have thought that the fact that you didn't eat it would have been a big clue to them that you hadn't enjoyed it. Having said that, people have very different palates. If I saw that someone else in a restaurant had left most of a meal, that wouldn't necessarily put me off ordering it.
I don't think your use of "fooled them" or "indirectly" fit here at all.

I ate it but only a little bit. Maybe they thought I was saving it for the last because it was very delicious.

 

[emsr2d2]

I ate it but only a little bit of it.

I think that should have potentially served as a warning to them. Even without talking to you, from the next table they would have been able to see that you ate a small amount and then left the rest. If you'd eaten the entire bowl but hated it, you might be able to say that you fooled them - your empty bowl would have given them the [false] impression that you enjoyed it.