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Restaurant: Rainbow Seafood Restaurant
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To encourage eatery outlets to reduce food waste at source together with customers through offering portioned meals and adopting food waste reduction measures, the Environmental Protection Department has launched the “Food Wise Eateries” Scheme. Participants will be awarded with a Food Wise Eateries (FWE) accreditation status if they comply with the assessment criteria and will be granted with the FWE Logo and Stickers for displaying in the premises and their promotion for public identification. Applications are accepted all year round and are FREE of charge.

For details, please click here, https://www.wastereduction.gov.hk/zh-hk/waste-reduction-programme/food-wise-hong-kong-campaign

Restaurant: Rainbow Seafood Restaurant
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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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Not as good as I remember
2012-09-21 726 views
I like to bring visitors to HK to Sok Kwu Wan and with their free shuttle boat, Rainbow has always been a convenient and reliable option.Increasingly though, the food quality is not what it used to be.The quality of service was rough-and-ready but polite and responsive and the environment was exactly as expected (it's an outdoor restaurant on a remote-ish island; it is what it is). No scams, either. I'm not Chinese but nobody tried to pull any "tourist prices" on me.The food, though. Hmm. Top bi
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I like to bring visitors to HK to Sok Kwu Wan and with their free shuttle boat, Rainbow has always been a convenient and reliable option.

Increasingly though, the food quality is not what it used to be.

The quality of service was rough-and-ready but polite and responsive and the environment was exactly as expected (it's an outdoor restaurant on a remote-ish island; it is what it is). No scams, either. I'm not Chinese but nobody tried to pull any "tourist prices" on me.

The food, though. Hmm. Top billing on yesterday's dinner service was the garlic lobsters. Not cheap, but perfectly cooked and absolutely delicious. The deep-fried shrimps were mostly okay, tasty, but a bit tough and overcooked. The steamed garoupa was a big disappointment. The waiter decided to "carve" (i.e. destroy) it before he brought it to my table, without checking first if that was what I wanted. So instead of a beautiful fresh fish ready to eat, we got a sad, messy pile of fish meat, bones etc. The fish itself was tasteless, the sauce was watery, and it was hard to eat since the bones had been mixed into it. I wish they'd asked first before mashing it up. I'm perfectly capable of serving steamed fish myself.

Salt-and-pepper fried squid was awful, tasteless, texture-less and basically cold. I don't believe this was cooked fresh when we ordered it.

I think I might have to start looking for another atmospheric seafood restaurant. There's plenty of choice.
(The above review is the personal opinion of a user which does not represent OpenRice's point of view.)
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Date of Visit
2012-09-20
Dining Method
Dine In
Spending Per Head
$500 (Dinner)