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Restaurant: China House
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To promote a new salt and sugar reduction (RSS) dietary culture and living style to the people of Hong Kong, the Environment and Ecology Bureau, the Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food and the Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department have launched the "Less-Salt-and-Sugar Restaurants Scheme" ("Scheme"). Restaurants participated in the Scheme will offer less salt or sugar options to the consumer or even tailor-make less salt or sugar dishes in designated restaurants. Participating restaurants will be granted with the Scheme Labels for displaying in the premises for public identification. For details, please click here: https://www.eeb.gov.hk/food/en/committees/crss/restaurants.html
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LUNCH SET WAS JUST UH.
2024-10-22 508 views
I'm a Shanghainese lunatic before visiting the place, so that naturally explained my high expectation.  Unfortunately that anticipation was only meant to be a nosedive - beginning with the moment I was chaperoned into a shabby corner next to the fire hose (far from the stylish oriental interior you saw when you entered the place, which made me wondered how I should justify for the additional 10% charge, at least make an exemption for someone who didn't get an equivalent standard of dinning exper
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I'm a Shanghainese lunatic before visiting the place, so that naturally explained my high expectation.  Unfortunately that anticipation was only meant to be a nosedive - beginning with the moment I was chaperoned into a shabby corner next to the fire hose (far from the stylish oriental interior you saw when you entered the place, which made me wondered how I should justify for the additional 10% charge, at least make an exemption for someone who didn't get an equivalent standard of dinning experience).  Well,  I'm a solo diner, and my age made me looked like someone less like the savvy uncles and aunties whom I guaranteed the chance for them to complain about what's happening next was 200% - so, when I sat down the waiter asked me for my choice of tea. I politely told them I had dietary preferences that made caffeine a no-no, instead of an empathetic "I see," how I was responded was, "Still, we will charge you, doesn't matter if we serve you boiled water," I was like, okay, I knew it, but honestly, you didn't have to be that mean. Alright, he could just be stating the facts, but the way he put it, plus the attitude, was not nice at all (or, am I asking for too much for Hong Kong service standard?) Rest of the story was nothing worth more than a plain sentence - I was epically underwhelmed by a lunch set that was served like nothing but a 40-ish dollars lunchbox you could get at a local diner takeaway just a few blocks away (and I bet theirs taste even better). But guess what they charged this for? HKD 84 dollars (plus the 'tea' that I never ordered, plus the service I didn't feel like that's up to what they think it deserves). Am I asking for too much? Maybe I am, to collectively bad Hong Kong restaurant service standard. But if the industry doesn't seriously learn a lesson from why people would rather commute across the border to spend their weekends, you have the answer here. 
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Other Info. : P.S. No worries, I can totally understand because what I've paid mostly goes to the rent. I get it. This is Hong Kong. And it is just, the way it is. PERIOD. If you think I'm just another deeply shallow and presumptuous Gen-Z, just ignore my comment. Thank you, have a nice day.
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Date of Visit
2024-10-22
Dining Method
Dine In
Spending Per Head
$84 (Lunch)
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