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2015-12-31
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From yesterday’s dining experience, I believe I should use English to express so that everyone could understand.It was a birthday dinner, and we have book a table at 7pm. By 7pm most of the us have arrived except one was stuck at work.At around 7:15 one of the waiter come by and told us we have to return the table by 9pm. My friend who organize this event politely replied, she did talk with the receptionist Ricalyn to extend the returning time to 9:30, and Ricalyn said they can accomodate. This
It was a birthday dinner, and we have book a table at 7pm.
By 7pm most of the us have arrived except one was stuck at work.
At around 7:15 one of the waiter come by and told us we have to return the table by 9pm. My friend who organize this event politely replied, she did talk with the receptionist Ricalyn to extend the returning time to 9:30, and Ricalyn said they can accomodate. This waiter immediately shown a very unpleasant expression and repeat once again that we will have to return the table by 9pm.
And few moment later, there is another waiter (I believe is a more senior person or incharge) come over and tell us we will have to return the table to them by 9pm. So we have repeat ourself once more on the agreement between Ricalyn and my friend. Then this waiter told us Ricalyn does not have the right to promise us anything. Come on, as a customer, we won’t understand how your restaurant works, does it mean we will have to ask for the manager on everything we book or order?
After the very unpleasant start, we finally have everyone here and start our dinner. We did order their set dinner which costing HKD420 per person + 10%
Set Dinner
Hokkaido scallops, snowpeas, pickled enoki, shiso, salmon roe - very normal dish
Fried chicken mid wings with shrimp sambal - heavily salted
Mom’s “mostly cabbage, a little bit of pork” dumplings, sacha soy dressing - quite good
Fried cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, maple bacon chilli jam - heavily salted
Stir-fried cabbage with caramelized onion jam, salted chilli, black vinegar - very oily
Kurobuta pork char-siu - quite good and tender
Steam kingfish with chive - over cook and meat become quite chewie
Grilled calamari, squid ink onion jam, XO sauce, shishito peppers, spiced pumpkin seeds - quite good
DIY pork Sang Choi Bao, cucumber kimchi, chilli bean paste, garlic stem, mixed herbs - quite spicy and heavily salted
Mix your own steamed rice, seaweed, toasted sesame, pork floss, sesame oil - we have to fill ourself up with this
“Breakfast 2.0” Horlicks ice cream, cornflake honeyjoy, oats, dried longan, cocoa coffee crumbs - just like a breakfast
HK style a la mode, Kit Kat brownie, marshmallows, salted caramel, popcorn
Reading from the menu, it looks like very reasonable priced with giving you a good taste on their varieties. But as soon as they start to present, we know it is completely wrong.
Firstly, we all think most items were heavily seasoned, it taste quite salty and we have to drink a lot of water after each dish.
And secondly the portion of each dish were so little, and no one feel comfortably full after we completed the set.
So how little actually is? We have 9 people and ordered 9 sets of dinner, from the set we share 12 chicken wings, 10 dumplings, 7 pieces of fish, each person with 1 tablespoon of cauliflower, 1 tablespoon of Scallops, 2 pieces of char-siu. Slightly bigger portion with the cabbage, calamari and Sang Choi Bao.
Maybe it is a tasting menu, so we got a long list with a smaller portion on each dish, but can someone explain why we ordered 9 sets of dinner but only comes with 7 pieces of fish? Are we suppose to split our fish into 0.777777 of a piece to share…??? This is completely wrong.
Following with the dessert, maybe they know we have brought our own cake to celebrate, so the portion was so small. The below portion are suppose to be share between 5 of us, that is smaller than my breakfast portion.
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When we walk out of the restaurant there were no one there waiting for our table, so why we got rush so badly.
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