Often pass this place on the way to the Salvation Army depot to donate some clothes. Shop front looks good, giant crab picture looks delicious.

First the food
Wandered in for lunch to try at last. Ordered curry beef brisket with french bread and lemon grass porkchop rice. The food arrived after 10 minutes or so and it was quite OK. Portions large, taste good.

The Service
Quite shocking really for a place that has survived so long. The waiters have an attitude about serving people. Maybe they didn't like taking food to people or maybe they just didn't like people. Anyway these managed to give the ugliest service I have had for a long time. They make Aussie Dairy service look frriendly.

How they are surviving
Here's my theory; large majority of customeres are tourists who would visit for the first and last time. In fact most of all their customers must be first time visitors, like myself, and that would be it. No returners.

Shame reaally. The food is quite good, expensive, but get what you pay for but the service was outstanding in its hostility.

Saturday lunch. I intended to have the all day breakfast, but they would change the scrambled egg for real fried eggs. So had East menu instead. We had the beef pho and the grilled steak with garlic. The pho was large and covered with basil. Nice. Butte soup was tasteless, much like colored water without salt. The steak looked good, but it was cooked without anything, not even salt. Shame as salt really brings out the beef taste. Overall, nice presentation, shame about the taste. Maybe just stick to the western menu.

I've found it. The place that does the worst 麻辣米線 in Hong Kong.

I had belly pork and beef with the noodles in hot soup. The soup base was so watered down, it was tasteless, even for 中辣. And the meat was served preboiled to remove any sort of taste.

I don't know why the OLs block the mall to queue for lunch at this place. It must be either the price or the blandness which suits their tastebuds.

Lunch:

Sheekh kebab
Lamb roganjosh
Chicken vindaloo

naan.

The sheekh kebab was nice n hot but very dry inside. The meat was almost burnt, no wonder.

Lamb was good n moist, but the curry tasted like soup. No body to it.

The chicken in the vindaloo had the frozen wiff. You'd think the curry would cover that, but no. It was hot and that was it.

The naan. My friend said it must've been from Africa. It was totally burnt.

All the other lunchers were having the set lunches with the non-descript dark generic curry sauce poured over their chosen meat. We should've had that instead and saved a few hundred dollars.

While we expected a normal, non-extraordinary lunch, we did get an extraordinary one. Extraordinarily bad one. The food, combined with the sour faced big india women made it quite memorable.

Wait a minute, there's more. The price: it was $88 for the sheekh kebab!!! That's $20 more than what you'd pay in TST. 30% more expensive that TST!!!

Now, where can we get a good indian meal in Tai Po? Might just have to wait for a new place to open.... please....

Sunday night. Empty restaurant bar one table. And he was finishing off.

Ordered the butter ramen and the fried rce set.

The ramen came with the usual char siu and corn and a large knob of Hokkaido butter. The onions and spring onions aplenty. The soup was a white bone stock with white miso and garlic oil. It was strong, full of flavour just like the ones I've had in Sapporo. Surprised at the quality of the stock.

The ramen was the curly yellow type and with the soup and ingredients, it was quit substantial. The accompanying friend rice had egg and bits of charsiu too, so taken together this was a large enough meal even for 2.