Sounds to me like he orders like he plays - starts off slow, ponderous, pretty bland, with the staff ready to lose their patience with him, but the prospect always remains of him throwing in a curve ball right at the end with a request for the hottest vindaloo available.
The staff are left thinking wow "he knows his curries" whilst simultaneously forgetting the previous 3 minutes of "It's gotta beeee some...…..rice and some...….some...curry sauce"
In short, he blows hot and cold but has the ability to pull something special out of the bag - I should just have posted this sentence tbh.