Yucky Food

There's a new Hong Kong style restaurant at Whitesands Shopping Centre... Hubs and I decided to try it out since the exterior looked quite posh.

There's a lot on the menu and we ordered: Roast Duck Noodles, Century Egg Porridge, Lotus Leaf Glutinous Rice and Siew Mai.
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Verdict: YUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Let me tell you why:

Duck Noodles: The noodles were too sweet (dessert-like sweet) while the roast duck was too salty (preserved duck during CNY kind of salty). What a conflicting combination! And to add on to the bad experience, the green vegetables were filled with sand. Angry!

Century Egg Porridge: It was lukewarm! And bland, and watery. Not like they had a ready set of condiments for you like soya sauce and pepper. What they had on the table was a bottle of chilli sauce! And the kind used for western food!!!!

Lotus Rice: One word. Bad. The rice does not even have the fragrance of the lotus leaf! It's just normal glutinous rice with chicken and mushroom. The chicken, not marinated properly, was tough and tasteless.

Siew Mai: It was our last hope.... dashed. It tasted just like the siew mais we get in school canteens. Full of fatty pieces and more fatty pieces.

We just fell short of flipping the table over in our angst. Throughout the meal, Hubs and I were daydreaming about how we'd come back in the middle of the night to vandalize the place. Haha! Anyway, we decided that without us doing anything, this place should fold soon. It's not even an authentic Hong Kong restaurant! We tried speaking cantonese to the staff and all turned out to speak either mainland mandarin or english. Cheh! At least the Hong Kong Tea Place on the 2nd level have managers from Hong Kong. We paid $27+ for the miserable meal and decided we could have eaten to our fill with much better food at a kopitiam stall with that money!

And to make sure we were not the only ones grousing, we scanned the restaurant and saw many furrowed brows. In fact, we couldn't even see a smiling face! Aiyo!

Just call it a lesson learnt for us. Since then, I've been telling all my family members and friends not to patronize the place unless they are really desperate. It's just not worth it to have them spoil your day....

I'll leave you with a picture of our almost-eaten yucky meal. Jaa!















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