Despicable service @ 海港酒家

Usually I will post pictures of food, but the service so despicable that I can't be bothered.

The other branch at MaOnShan was not that irritating.

Anyway, I went to reception on behalf of someone who had booked the table, and the receptionists were busy ignoring me, so I patiently waited.
However the people behind just jumped the queue and spoke to the dragon ladies and somehow they responded so maybe this is the way in Hong Kong, there is no such thing as civilisation in Kowloon.
To be precise this branch is in TKO which is not even in Kowloon but the New territories~!

To be served at this restaurant, you must jump the queue and force them to serve you just like in China.
Or wait til the queue dies down and try again which I did.

Anyway, this booking was booked a week ago for EIGHT people, so when we went to our table we were expecting 8 seats!
The whole purpose of booking was to ensure a table and seats of course!
Went to the table and there was ONLY five seats, so asked the waitors about the other three and they just grabbed some round stools to make up for it.
I thought it was a big insult to pre-book and not get what is expected!
What is their stupid booking service for.

Next on was the food, it wasnt bad, but some dishes were slow to arrive.

One of the dishes was a joke, it was spareribs in hawthorn sauce, there was only three pieces of meat and the rest of it was shallots.
It was about 70% vegetables and 30% meat and spareribs is considered as the main!???!!!

Champagne without its sparkle @ 尚賓樓

Went to this restaurant which was located in the urban areas of Hong Kong, I had no expectations due to its location and the other branches they have which are located in Kwai Chung and Kwai Fong.

The restaurant was spacious and not busy, probably due location and it being a weekday.

Ended up ordering: tofu and meat patty, spinach with salted egg and preserved egg, raw prawns and bittermelon pot, pork and lotus patty, and steamed fish.

The food was terrible BUT the menu was hilarious, fit for terrorists with fury such as exploding items, madder soup and dam soup!

Pork and lotus patty:
The meat patty was too dry, salty and so oily which you could visually see.

Tofu and meat patty:It was literally quite orange in colour, I was expecting it to taste good, but it smelt of custard.
The patty was sweet as well.

 

Spinach with salted and preserved egg
The spinach was tasteless and the salted egg and preserved egg were on the top.

 

Raw prawns and bittermelon pot
This dish was heated above a burner, and the lid was made of metal.
There should have been a warning because the handle on the lid was really hot.
Basically it was raw prawns boiled in bittermelon soup.
I don’t know why but they put too much black pepper in it and ruined it.

 

Steamed fish:
The fish was nice on its own, but the old oil that was poured on top ruined it.

 

Now the most entertaining part of the review for furious people:

Crazy soup: MADDER soup/DAM soup

 

squid to "EXPLODE"

 

granules and explosions!!

 

decoct means boiling

 

"forcemeat" ?!?!?!?! what animal is that?

 

 

 

It's a posh life being vegetarian!