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2012-09-10 67 views
My friends and I decided to visit this place as they live in Ap Lei Chau on a Saturday night. We were a group of six people and there was one other group in the restaurant so not exactly busy. First we ordered some hot tea so we could clean our chopsticks as they were sticky. We asked for a bottle of red and white wine. They had no red wine and then wanted to charge us $150 corkage for wine they couldn't supply! The white wine was acceptable but a little warm so I asked for it to be put in
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My friends and I decided to visit this place as they live in Ap Lei Chau on a Saturday night. We were a group of six people and there was one other group in the restaurant so not exactly busy. First we ordered some hot tea so we could clean our chopsticks as they were sticky. We asked for a bottle of red and white wine. They had no red wine and then wanted to charge us $150 corkage for wine they couldn't supply! The white wine was acceptable but a little warm so I asked for it to be put in an ice bucket but they didn't have any ice. The menu had some interesting items on it. Two of our group were vegetarian. We ordered the preserved eggs to start which were delicious so we had high hopes for the rest of the meal but were sadly disappointed. We also ordered eggplant, tofu, another vegetable dish, ma po tofu, chilli chicken and fried sweat sour fish. The chilli chicken was the next best dish but there was so little chicken in it, not worth the money. The eggplant and vegetable dishes were inedible. The ma po tofu was a tiny portion and the worst I've tried in HK - no depth of flavour in the sauce just chilli. They didn't have the correct fish for the fried fish dish and when it finally came it wasn't worth the wait - more batter than fish. As we were eating Sichuan we also asked for some bottled water - we were supplied with one small bottle so one of my friends had to run out to a local shop and buy some for our table. We discovered there was only one person working front of house and one person in the kitchen so service was slow. However, even if the restaurant was short staffed it doesn't explain why they had run out of so many items especially fish - Aberdeen fish market is around the corner! Needless to say we won't be going back.
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Date of Visit
2012-09-08
Dining Method
Dine In
Spending Per Head
$350 (Dinner)