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2016-09-04
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Spending one night at the Silvermine Bay Resort for a weekend getaway and my British colleagues recommended this restaurant. We did some morning hiking around the waterfall area and finished at 11:20am. The restaurant opens at 12 on weekends so we waited at the beach side for just less than one hour until the restaurant opened. The building was in fact a previous beach club facility and there were some tables around the balcony area. A lady kindly offered us a table for 6 (We are a family of 4
British colleagues recommended this restaurant. We did some morning hiking
around the waterfall area and finished at 11:20am. The restaurant opens at 12 on
weekends so we waited at the beach side for just less than one hour until the
restaurant opened.
The building was in fact a previous beach club
facility and there were some tables around the balcony area. A lady kindly
offered us a table for 6 (We are a family of 4 with 2 kids) as long as we could
return the table before 2:30pm. In fact, we were aiming for 1:20pm ferry so of
course it'd be okay.
However, another waitress wanted us to switch to the
4 seater table and at the end agreed to let us stay where we were provided that
we return the table by 2pm.
She then mentioned we should start with
ordering drinks. Without having a chance to check out the drinks menu in detail,
we ordered an iced tea, a fruit punch and a coke.
Instead of leaving to
place the drinks order she still stayed by the table side and kept rushing us to
order food. We didn't have time to go through the menu, first part was bbq food,
i was up to the second page and saw some pita, moussaka, etc. We remembered the
blackboard on the groundfloor showed dishes like ribeye, lamb chop, etc (some
common international dishes) so my husband asked if there were any burgers
(Wanted something kids friendly.)
The waitress showed an extremely
annoying face, as if we had asked the silliest question on earth, "Burger? This
is not a Chinese restaurant!"
We were shocked by her rudeness. We kinda
mentioned in fact burger is not a Chinese dish but she then just said maybe
Chinese liked burgers. Up to that point it was quite clear that her attitude
implied that we Chinese should have gone to a Chinese restaurant. We ended up
leaving the place.
When passing by the bar we told the "kind" lady what
happened but she just said something like "Ok burger is American."
If the
owner of the restaurant would ever read this piece i sincerely hope they
understand the waitress could have just said, "Sorry we don't have burgers." Or
perhaps they simply do not want to see Asian faces in their restaurant (yet
settling in HK!). And next time, if you don't mean to give your customers a
bigger table, just don't do it. Chinese/ Asian can also distinguish
Mediterranean dishes, but only if they are given enough time to check out the
menu.
We ended up having a great time at China Bear near the pier. Had
"American" burger, excellent service and still managed to catch the 1:20pm
ferry.
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