MoonCake Festival Dinner

Mooncake / Lantern / Mid-Autum Festival today!! No need to cook! Uncle want to belanja makan at a restaurant. Yay!!!!

The family went to this restaurant. We've booked and ordered our meal a day in advance upon the urging of the manager as she said that they'll be very busy on account that it's MoonCake Festival. We ordered the set menu (Chinese 8 course dinner) that cost $688, plus extra dishes as there are 14 of us and the set menu is good for only 10 people.

7pm - arrived at the restaurant, wait for Mom and Uncle

7.30pm - Mom and Uncle arrived. Waitress said the food will be ready in 10 mins. Great.

7.40pm - Where's the food? Oh, another 10 mins. We observed a few other groups of diners entering the restaurant and seated.

7.50 pm - Food mana? Sorry ah, they're getting it. 10 more mins

8.00 pm -The table next to ours got their food. They ordered ala carte (not the 8 course set)

8.05 pm - Sis ordered white rice for Ben. We passed the time by trying to kill flies! Yes, there were flies!!! One into Steph's watermelon juice and drowned!

8.10 pm - I ordered white rice for Jeremy. The extra dish of Venison (not part of the set menu). We were so hungry it was gone within seconds!!! Where is the rest of our dinner????? Oh, there's a mistake in the kitchen. Dinner will be ready in 10 minutes!! Another table of diners who came in much later than us got their food!!!!!!!!

8.20 pm - No sight of our dinner! Our stomach is grumbling, kids are getting tired, we decided to walk out! Without paying for the drinks we already had, and the single plate of venison that we ate! Just walked out. The assistant manager quickly came after us and practically begged us to go back in. Full of apologies, she dragged mom back into the restaurant. So we went back in lor.

8.30pm - Dinner is (finally) served. The soup was bland, the vegetables has no taste, the fish was very salty (like eating salted fish), the chicken was weird. It was a very unsatisfying dinner. It appears to have been prepared in a hurry. The cook must have put too much salt in some dishes and forgot to salt the other dishes.

Oh another fly committed suicide in Jeremy's juice.

The bill came. Full charge on everything!!! Of course we complained, and ask for a discount. Uncle was saying never mind la, but we say, No, what's fair's fair. It's not that we're not going to pay. We just pay what's due. So, in the end, the restaurant gave us a 10% discount plus no charge on all drinks.

Well ... that's ok, i guess, but .... This is one restaurant I WILL NEVER GO BACK to.