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2010-04-30
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We were there for dinner. But first, the backstory: The last time I had sichuan food, I bit into one of those soft peppercorn-type things and basically paid for it the rest of the day with cold sweats. (I actually do ok with chilli most of the time, especially thai bird's eyes but don't know what came over me) Anyway, contrary to some of the english reviews, the service was great. One woman actually repeatedly went down to pick people up from the street because the nondescript doorway to the Win
But first, the backstory: The last time I had sichuan food, I bit into one of those soft peppercorn-type things and basically paid for it the rest of the day with cold sweats. (I actually do ok with chilli most of the time, especially thai bird's eyes but don't know what came over me)
Anyway, contrary to some of the english reviews, the service was great. One woman actually repeatedly went down to pick people up from the street because the nondescript doorway to the Winner Building entrance is smack in the middle of two bars at LKF. Our tea was repeatedly filled up and although we stayed till close to midnight, the poor dude cleaning up didn't try to openly chase us away. They speak mandarin/putonghua, so you can use that instead of cantonese if you want.
Having said that, the food was only so-so. The four of us had the eight dishes of the fixed menu - dishes were the same as those listed in other reviews here - but none were really stunning. I think the kicker was that the ma la cold chicken wasn't too hot and the rest of the dishes were lacking in taste and depth. I guess the standouts were the cold flat glass noodles with cucumbers and the potatoes and aubergine dish. But you really shouldn't be paying HKD200 for a 25% success rate in a fixed menu. And there wasn't even any dessert!
Given that we couldn't choose what we ate and the fact that both my wife and I had the runs about eight hours after the meal (our stomachs aren't too weak), it will probably be a while before we come back here, and only then at the gross insistence of misguided friends from overseas.
If this had been a friend's house, I'd have eaten politely and remarked at the bank of six air con units on the wall, and suggested to my friend that the next time we met up, I'd treat him to a meal at Monster Burger instead
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