The Red Chamber Restaurant in Hyde Park Shopping Centre, Johannesburg has been around for years and is often cited as one of the best Chinese restaurants in town. So I was definitely excited about eating at it for the first time. However, I just had the WORST dining experience in years at this so-called 'great' restaurant. Hereafter a list of just some of the things I hated about my dinner tonight:
- the most monumentally rude and impatient waitress I think I have ever encountered - to the extent that my friend and I were left gobsmacked!
- the blandest spring rolls
- the worst pot stickers I think I have ever had - that also tasted slightly 'plastic'
- a delicious-sounding spicy kingklip main that was anything but delicious - oily, glutinous, surprisingly bland and that was left half-finished
- continuous inattention of our main waitress and the other wait staff - whether for serviettes, a glass of wine or even simply plates and chopsticks with which to have our main course
What a disaster! I was embarrassed to be the one paying for such a disappointing and downright bad meal, never mind the mostly atrocious service. I DO NOT understand its popularity - OVERRATED RUBBISH!
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