bad restaurants
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mayoraaseiI thought service this bad would only appear in Pratchett's world, but apparently not >_>
As we walked into the restaurant, a group of six waiters stood around laughing at their own conversation, and we had to glare at them for a good 2 minutes before one of them came over and asked how many people we had.
After we had decided what to order, we tried to get a waiter to come over. The mind-blowing this is they would take out an orders book and flip it around, but as soon as they spot you gesturing at them from the corner of their eyes, they stuffed it back into their pocket and WALTZED in the other direction. OMG, what kind of guy WALTZES. Finally, a girl came over, but as soon as she took out her pen, she said, "Oh, wait," and walked off, doing nothing. A guy came about a minutes later, and put pen to paper, and said, "Oh, wait" and ran off. W.T.F.
Finally a nerdy-looking guy came and took down the orders. When we asked him what was in two different "mixed vegetables" dishes, he stood for two whole minutes scratching his head, and then having to walk off to ask his boss what was in it, and then coming back with the pathetic answer, "It's mixed vegetables, so it's, you know, a vegetable mix." OMG, you don't say.
After the orders were made, we were given soup. It had the colour of off milk and the consistency of hair gel, with bug-like spots and fat floating on top. The Chinese have this thing about boiling the meat twice to get rid of the blood - they obviously didn't do that, because the pork was laced with dark blood vessels.
Our first dish was the mixed vegetables, half raw, which was okay. BUT THEY FORGOT THE RICE. And they kept avoiding eye contact with you! It was a full ten minutes before we managed to waylay someone.
And the second dish had chicken, which was bleeding from the bones and mixing with the sauce. It looked really gross, so we dragged someone over and asked him to heated it up to cook it properly. He gave us a dubious look and said, "I'll have to ask about that." WTF. JUST HEAT IT UP IN MICROWAVE YOU DUMBASS. WE'RE NOT ASKING YOU TO REMAKE IT. He had to go drag the nerdy guy over, who promptly said it was okay and took it away. GEEZ. The chicken came back still bleeding anyway.
The third was some egg thing, which they overcooked by a mile, and which they didn't mix the salt properly, so some bites would have no taste while others were like chewing on salt crystals.
After the meal, to pack the food, customers had to go help themselves with the plastic boxes and bags. Either that or no customers can be bothered waiting for them to make eye contact.
=_________=
Out of 100:
Service = -90 (the nerdy guy was the only saving grace, even if he was totally clueless on the menu)
Food = -50 (I would need to be paid to eat their cooking)
Came home totally nauseous and still starving, and had to stuff myself full on a cake before my stomach was placated.
Eesh.
Never again.
As we walked into the restaurant, a group of six waiters stood around laughing at their own conversation, and we had to glare at them for a good 2 minutes before one of them came over and asked how many people we had.
After we had decided what to order, we tried to get a waiter to come over. The mind-blowing this is they would take out an orders book and flip it around, but as soon as they spot you gesturing at them from the corner of their eyes, they stuffed it back into their pocket and WALTZED in the other direction. OMG, what kind of guy WALTZES. Finally, a girl came over, but as soon as she took out her pen, she said, "Oh, wait," and walked off, doing nothing. A guy came about a minutes later, and put pen to paper, and said, "Oh, wait" and ran off. W.T.F.
Finally a nerdy-looking guy came and took down the orders. When we asked him what was in two different "mixed vegetables" dishes, he stood for two whole minutes scratching his head, and then having to walk off to ask his boss what was in it, and then coming back with the pathetic answer, "It's mixed vegetables, so it's, you know, a vegetable mix." OMG, you don't say.
After the orders were made, we were given soup. It had the colour of off milk and the consistency of hair gel, with bug-like spots and fat floating on top. The Chinese have this thing about boiling the meat twice to get rid of the blood - they obviously didn't do that, because the pork was laced with dark blood vessels.
Our first dish was the mixed vegetables, half raw, which was okay. BUT THEY FORGOT THE RICE. And they kept avoiding eye contact with you! It was a full ten minutes before we managed to waylay someone.
And the second dish had chicken, which was bleeding from the bones and mixing with the sauce. It looked really gross, so we dragged someone over and asked him to heated it up to cook it properly. He gave us a dubious look and said, "I'll have to ask about that." WTF. JUST HEAT IT UP IN MICROWAVE YOU DUMBASS. WE'RE NOT ASKING YOU TO REMAKE IT. He had to go drag the nerdy guy over, who promptly said it was okay and took it away. GEEZ. The chicken came back still bleeding anyway.
The third was some egg thing, which they overcooked by a mile, and which they didn't mix the salt properly, so some bites would have no taste while others were like chewing on salt crystals.
After the meal, to pack the food, customers had to go help themselves with the plastic boxes and bags. Either that or no customers can be bothered waiting for them to make eye contact.
=_________=
Out of 100:
Service = -90 (the nerdy guy was the only saving grace, even if he was totally clueless on the menu)
Food = -50 (I would need to be paid to eat their cooking)
Came home totally nauseous and still starving, and had to stuff myself full on a cake before my stomach was placated.
Eesh.
Never again.
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Date: 2006-11-05 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-11-05 06:20 am (UTC)(if not, don't eat there either.. it's just like that. I'm not even going to mention what one has to do to go to toilet there.. +o+)
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Date: 2006-11-05 10:15 am (UTC)But yeah what crappy, crappy service you had! Hope you didn't leave a tip. >:(
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Date: 2006-11-06 01:39 pm (UTC)Wow, over an hour and with not many customers O_o;
Actually last time we went to a small African restaurant in Newtown and it took that long too, but they were trying to get all the dishes on at the same time.
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Date: 2006-11-05 11:41 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-11-05 12:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-06 01:39 pm (UTC)Have never tried maison Oo;
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Date: 2006-11-06 04:26 am (UTC)"It's mixed vegetables, so it's, you know, a vegetable mix."
LOL!! They need to learn their lines. *Suave voice* This is medium-rare venision with Brazilian coffee grounds, chestnut mushrooms, mandarin compote served with a zucchini/rocket salad dressed with 25-year-old balsamic vinegar.
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Date: 2006-11-06 01:41 pm (UTC)Gah, Salmonella and Campylobacter T_T Yuckness. Even looking at it was unappetising...the blood streaking into the sauce and mixing........argh.
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