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2017-03-28
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I am a matured man and laugh about people taking pictures of their food to post in Facebook or Instagram. I don't care much about writing reviews of restaurants either. However, I think I am obliged to write this.Ever since moving to Taipo 3 years ago, I have had some very disappointing dine out experiences. Nothing had prepared me for what I had last night. It was my young brother-in-law's birthday. I persuaded my wife to celebrate it with him with a dinner. I proposed a local Chinese restauran
Ever since moving to Taipo 3 years ago, I have had some very disappointing dine out experiences. Nothing had prepared me for what I had last night.
It was my young brother-in-law's birthday. I persuaded my wife to celebrate it with him with a dinner. I proposed a local Chinese restaurant where I have been quite pleasantly surprised at the food quality. She preferred a Western style one and picked this one. I checked with Open Rice and found some very promising reviews and nice food pictures so we went.
The young man and I ordered charbroiled Australian ribeye. My wife panfried fish which name I've forgot now. We had their daily soup that was a pumpkin purée.
The bread that came with the soup was far from anything represented in the pictures we saw in the other reviews. It was actually those cheapest rolls dyed artificially with yellow colour that you'd call 餐包仔. Two were squished. None was fresh, not to mention cold and wet.
The main courses came when we were halfway into our soup but knowing the bad manners of Hong Kong local Western style restaurants, I forgave them.
I was totally unprepared for the steak. It was cold. I don't mean not hot enough kind of cold but cold cold. I calmed myself to maintain the atmosphere. My brother-in-law was so enthusiastically telling us his new job that I did not want to spoil the party. He was still doing his soup so I waited to see, slicing slowly into the tasteless beef-lookalike material. If it were not for my wife's timid temperament and the even more sensitive character, I would have summoned the chef and given him a lecture.
To my surprise my young relative continued his supper while still talking happily about his colleagues and the new routines he was so excited about. Hong Kong people really have spoiled the restaurant owners here.
The nature of my own business has related me closely with fine dining so I have had the privilege of eating some of the nicest restaurants in town and to exchange with the chefs. Before I spent a good part of my life abroad I grew up here in HK in a grassroot family. So i have a pretty good picture of the spectrum of food places here. For the price, I would have either go to any of the local fast food chains for their cheap 鉄板燒 of steak with added tenderiser and save at least 30% of the price for a beer in a neighbourhood bar.
Or I would have go to some of the Cantonese 酒家 for a great value seafood dinner.
Please don't spoil the restaurant owners on Taipo anymore and start to demand the quality you would expect for what you pay. Don't post all happy reviews here in Open Rice even you have had a poor meal. All these are making Open Rice unreliable, and encouraging bad service and poor food in Hong Kong.
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