Video
Read full review
2016-02-13
3054 views
I am sure the people who gave great reviews for this place are notorious drinkers. The food here...sucks. The service here, sucks even more.I was SO excited when I learned that there's finally a Caribbean joint in Hong Kong. We tried to come here on a weekend night, the music was SO loud that you cannot talk to your company even you tried to scream. But I was so determined to try it so we went again during a weekday night. Pretty quiet there. Only 2 people were there (not sure if they work there
I was SO excited when I learned that there's finally a Caribbean joint in Hong Kong. We tried to come here on a weekend night, the music was SO loud that you cannot talk to your company even you tried to scream. But I was so determined to try it so we went again during a weekday night. Pretty quiet there. Only 2 people were there (not sure if they work there or not). My bf wanted to make sure they are still open so he went in and ask if they still serve food. He had the most unwelcome greeting even encountered in our whole trip in Hong Kong. Whatever. I really wanna tried the food and they were still serving it. When we were about to seat ourselves, this woman who we thought was a customer came and asked if we came for drinks. We said we wanted to eat. She said let me check if we are still serving food. Huh? Somebody just told me you were. Anyway, I let her check but I didn't know what was the point. Because she never came back and update us.
Onto the food. There's NOTHING Caribbean about the food. I am totally qualified to make this comment. I make Caribbean food quite often. I even go to a ethnic store and buy ingredients to make my own jerk sauce. If you never have beef patty before, the beef patty taste ok. But it's not like Jamaican beef patty. The flour is not the crispy ones that you would have in an authentic Jamaican joint. But I know a lot of Westernized place make it this way. So I guess is ok. I love Callaloo so I ordered the Callaloo and Cassava Chips. It was a nightmare. I can't even describe how bad the Callaloo taste. We also had the Carrot Cake. The flour was not coherent at all so when you slice it, it all fell apart.
The service throughout was bad. When I asked about the items in the menu. The waiter seems like he knows nothing about it and tried to make shxx up. It was only us in the restaurant/bar, but the only waiter there was busy checking on the bartender and the owner's conversation and it took us awhile to get his attention a couple of times.
I looked up this place some more afterwards. It occurs to me that one of the bartenders that night was one of the owners. It's pretty disappointing that the whole time we were there, we felt very unwelcomed. Nobody came to check on us. Everybody who were there did not look happy working there. Well, it was Monday, I guess...
Do not come here if you want real Jamaican food. Come here if you want some drinks and not converse with anybody.
Post