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Date Dined: 19th oct 2011 8.15pmOrdered: Spaghetti Carbonara ($108) & Open sandwich & Pad Thai with mushroom ($108)Intro: Greyhound is a fashion brand from Bangkok. I first came across Greyhound while shopping in bangkok. It was sucha fashion brand with simple design and usually use the shades of white, blacka nd grey. It is sophisticated whoeres as their younger line, Playhound is bit more playful and causal They have been expanding their brand rapidly in the last few years. Due to thei
Ordered: Spaghetti Carbonara ($108) & Open sandwich & Pad Thai with mushroom ($108)
Intro: Greyhound is a fashion brand from Bangkok. I first came across Greyhound while shopping in bangkok. It was sucha fashion brand with simple design and usually use the shades of white, blacka nd grey. It is sophisticated whoeres as their younger line, Playhound is bit more playful and causal They have been expanding their brand rapidly in the last few years. Due to their success they have opened their own restaurant and cafe in bangkok which has been a huge success. It is trendy and good place to have a tea, good fusion food and a place to chill out with friends.when i go to bangkok, it is a must place to visit everytime. it is a place to be seen.
Taste: Spaghetti Carbonara - This was rather small portion. But tasted better than I have expected. The pasta was creamy with lots of sauces unlike some places, their carbonara is dry and you can taste the parmesan in it. The Spahetti seems bit thinner than other spaghetti I have had somehow, but it was chewy and nice made. The pasta was definately al-dente, with bacon bits and mushrooms. one thing i wanted point out is, some bacons bits are crispy and some were not. some were big and chunky with lots offat. I must saw they probably gave you one mushroom button for the pasta which was thinnly sliced. To share between two people was not enough. For that price, could have gave a bigger portion and come with some salad or a piece of garlic bread.
Pad Thai with mushroom - I wasnt sure if i wanted to order this pasta as I did not see many people around me ordering oriental type of food. Most people ordered pasta or satay chicken or other meat. There is another pad thai with prawn, but as i do not eat prawn, we opted for mushroom, as the waiter said they cannot change it to chicken. Which i was not too pleased. the portion of the pad thai was even so small, it probably was onli 1/6 of a plate. i finished it within 4 spoonful. The taste was definately not as good as what you get in a thai restaurant. there was only tofu and mushroom. Not my kinda thai food, despite this is a thai restaurant with bit of a twist.
Open Sandwich (Forgot the name) - This was the on the sandwich and burger section. it caught my attention, as it said everything of a sandwich thrown into a bowl. sounds quite good as there will be bread, lettuce and tuna. Obviously when it came on the table, it did not look like the picture that was displayed nor sounded like it was on the menu. Although the appearance was not 5 star, and seemed like any normal salad from a average western restaurant in Hong Kong. The taste was just abit above average. The bread was thick and moist which i like. There are lots of dressing which was caeser dressing. i liked the taste with tuna and lettuce. was not as bad as it looked but i wouldnt say it is a sandwich. it seems more like a slad to me. It reminds me of the salad you get at pizza Express where they serve you with a bread dough.What i liked: There are almost a picture of each item on the menu, so you can see what it looks like even if you do not know what it is.
-There are chinese translation on the bottom of the english.
What i disliked: The management was appauling and I can write a book about it.. so here it goes- - Firstly the water has no idea when i ordered in English, so why hire someone who do not know english when the whole menu is in english with small print of chinese
- we had chicken wings delivered to our table twice, when we have already said we did NOT order it. I then saw the waitress stressing it out to the manager, then the manager had speak to another manager. they were all bit lost.
-Same waiter came back to us after the chicken wing incident and asked " Has all the food you ordered arrived? what are you missing" when obviously only one plate has come and he has forgotten what we have ordered. i told him ONCE AGAIN pad thai and the open sandwich in a bowl. Then after 3 mins he came back with a menu and asked me apart from Pad thai what am i missing. was quite annoying. How can you keep forgetting my order.
- My pad thai finally came, and it was pad thai with just tofu. On the menu it says 'Pad thai WITH MUSHROOM' No sign of mushroom though. we got the manager over and i said there is no mushroom there.
Surely a amanager's service should be much better but NO, he looked, dropped the palte back on table and walked off to speak to the waiter. should he not apologize first or say he will go check out why? Then the waiter came back and apologize and the manager came back with smile. How absurd can this be. just walk off? and how on earth did the chef forget the mushroom??????-As food blogger I like to take pictures of the restaurant I am dining at. i was trying take picture of the menu cover, then a waitress with short hair ran over and said i cannot take pictures of the menu. I said 'fine' and switched off my Canon and placed it on the seat. then she kept repeating I cannot take a picture. so i said, 'you have already made your point so no need to repeat'
Then astonishingly, she repeated again, and she added, that she will speak to someone with authority and get them to stand here til i stop it. So i said to her, ' did you not see me put away my camera so why you keep repeating?' Then she said it again. So I said 'IM NOT GOING TO TAKE ANY PICTURE OF YOUR MENU'
so then with abit of an attitude she said she will take my order, i said our order has been taken. she then said 'I will take away your menu" I said no, because iwould like to order something more. And she walked away staring at me. I dont undertsand the attitude and I putted away my camera first time she said. But she was literally lecturing me and telling me she will get someone to watch over my shoulder. Nice service!-Then same waitress came over when i was taking picture of teh food and said 'you can take photos of the food ofc, (giggle)' I really dont think that was needed.
-as we were sharing, we had the food in middle and own plates. The carbonara came first and surely the sauces was left behind on the plate. Where i would later put my pad thai on, so i had wierd taste on my plate. i think they could do better by changing yoyr plate once so often like all places do.
-they do not serve you any water when you sit down, but you can ask for it. warm or cold. but they should be more considerate.-As Greyhound is really BIG in bangkok, first branch opening here in Hong Kong is a big thing. we booked a few days before. And when we arrived late they were alreday ringing us up. Busy but overated
-There was way too much going on in the menu. the pictures of food was always on another page from the description. then there was other graphics on a odd page and some other stuff. so they whole menu seems like a book, the menu was definately not user friendly. takes you ages to see what they have to offer and choose.
Conclusion: I prefer the GreyHound in bangkok a million times more. You can chill and relax there, even meet up with your girlie and chat for whole night. In Hong Kong, this is like any other restaurant. Noisy, cramped, bad management, overated food and overpriced. i hate seeing Greyhound like this but it is the truth. it doesnt live up to its name and spoilt the brand. I saw about 4 managers with suits on and lots ofw aiters but they were all a mess. Not efficient and half the time running around not managing anythingOne more thing i saw a waiter running out with food in his hand a few times, does he not know that is dangerous?
More management, crap food and crap atmosphere. i rather buy a plane ticket and visit a more worthy Greyhound
张贴
