Take Note : This Outlet Is No Longer In Operation
Although Max Gourmet has been around for some time already, I'm trying it out for the first time today.
At first we sit outside with the crowd, but then I spy some box seats inside, so we shift inwards.
Prices on the menu look quite reasonable. We take some time to write down our orders and pass the chit to the waiter.
The drinks were the first to arrive.
Wonder why my Ginseng and chestnut drink doesn't even have the faintest taste of ginseng ....??
Also how do they expect us to chew on the chunk of chestnut with the skin is still on ?
Thankfully they didn't screw up the other 2 drinks. One a herbal drink( the darker liquid in the background) , the other boiled sugarcane . Both refreshing, both taste better than they look.
While waiting for our food to arrive, the various servers demonstrated how screwed up the service here is .
First they dumped other people's orders on our table. Not once but twice !
After that they resorted to checking our bill before taking the order around the world to hollan.
Look, there were hardly any customers around and they still managed to get confused
Finally, this Sui Kau dumpling arrived. Insipid soup with vegies that tastes just like vegie blanched with triple sterilised hot water.
The dumpling is alright only. Edible. Not terrible yet won't make me climb ten mountains for this. Taste doesn't figure highly here. Even the spring onion garnishing tastes like it has been sanitised.
I regret ordering the porridge with prawn balls. It looked so promising.
The porridge was so tasteless, I had to request for soya sauce, pepper and sesame oil. The sesame oil killed the whole porridge because it smelt like cockroach fart. The pepper wasn't even hot, the soya sauce couldn't even make it taste saltier or nicer for that matter. Horrible.
The prawn balls were 2 prawns sandwiching a little fish meat. While the prawns were good, the fish meat tasted rotten and I ended up having to throw all 5 of them away.
The only edible and tasty item was the sliced ginger. The porridge was clogged with mouthfuls of tasteless, dry, floss like meat.
One disaster after another. If I am not mistaken, the menu described the curry inside this bread, as an Indian curry. When I tried some it tasted like a cross between onion tomyam sauce and nyonya curry with assam .
How to enjoy the bread ? This type of curry simply does not go with bread. Which is such a pity because the bread is really soft and nice.
Duck breast wantan mee soup. Please. Only the duck breast was tasty. Everything else belongs to a refuse chute.
Texture of the noodles were springy and thin but my nostrils were overpowered by the strong smell of boric acid. Such a turn off indeed.
Since the duck was really very good, we added on another additional ala carte order for duck breast.
I made the waiter repeat after me to make sure that he knew that we wanted DUCK and not BAK.
Minutes later another fella came over and double checked our order with us .
The bugger had circled BAK and was now, nowhere to be seen .
When the DUCK finally arrived, we thought it was such a rip off. $12 for just a few miserable slices !!! Crazy.
The final bill was obscene. Not returning. Ever.
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