None of them came to check up on us, except for once. The waiter messed up the lo mein and got an extra pad Thai. She was probably still training because she didn’t know the meals and after she offered to give us another bottle of water, it never came until we had to flag her for it. Order that! The waitress was nice but it was pretty evident she doesn’t have the experience. The Asian Jungle Juice did not have ginger in it, at least I could not taste any. The tropical triangle was so sweet, we had to water it down. Next, we got our drinks which were the Asian Jungle Juice, Tropical Triangle, and the mango lassi. He must be a fan of giving chicken because he kept suggesting it with our meals. Came back a few minutes and resumed taking our order. A waiter comes around and decided to take our order, started, then left for a minute. Okay, so we had to flag the waitress who was just standing there to get us the menus. Now, let’s get to the interesting part! This was a Sunday dinner and we found this place because we went to 3 restaurants with a long wait. It was a nice starter and if you needed to clear your sinuses, get a nice cup of this. We also ordered their tom kah soup which was very good. But, the hot garlic chicken had too much garlic. The chili garlic fried rice was more chili and less of a garlic. Shrimp pad Thai didn’t have the right flavor… It was more Indian curry. The hakka noodles were alright (Just a FYI, the menu States «chicken, shrimp» it’s an «or» lol) Nothing special. Why are they using spaghetti for lo mein? I found that really wrong. First let’s go straight to the 4 dishes that didn’t do well. We ordered shrimp lo mein, hakka noodles, shrimp pad Thai, chili garlic fried rice, and hot garlic chicken. The two meals were the tandoori salmon salad and the thai chicken wings. 1 star belongs to the ambiance, and 1 star for 2 out of the 6 dishes were enjoyable. Well, this was an interesting experience. Please make necessary adjustments! You have some great items on the menu. To the owner, you see the negative feedback.
I also noticed her cleaning other tables and she wasn’t doing a good job at all. Aside from the culinary displeasure, our male servers were polite and accommodating. My advice: FIRE YOUR COOK! Would love to see your restaurant on a Kitchen Nightmares episode. I got sick again so I know for a fact it was the food at Taipan. I thought maybe if I cooked the food down some more at home, it would be better.
We skipped dessert, took our food to go, paid the bill and got the hell out of there. When I say sick I mean I had to use the bathroom. I don’t know what they do to the green curry but I ordered the lamb, mom ordered the fish, and dad ordered the duck, all in green curry. They brought out honey to go with it and I appreciated that alot being that not many restaurants do that. Drinks, I ordered a green tea and that was good. I didn’t see the huge deal people made over them but, not bad. We ordered the drumstick heaven or whatever you call it and those were ok. We declined seeing that our table was more spacious and the suggested one was a bit cramped. In all fairness, we were asked if we would like to move to a table farther away. We were seated next to a family with a bunch of screaming children. Had I done that, I would have suggested elsewhere. My brother suggested this place and I wish I checked the reviews before we came. Despite impeccable service, I really feel like sub par food is grounds for a low rating, especially if the food makes you sick. For the rest of us, not worth spending half a day on the train to get there.Īs a Muslim, I really hate to give 2 stars to a halal establishment but my last visit was really disheartening. If you live in the area, then it’s more convenient for you to go to. Way too many things to choose from and some of them are the same thing. They should start by removing a lot of items from the menu. If the locals aren’t buying then this place really needs to revamp. This place would be ten times better if they used fresh meat, but considering the location (the fact that we took two trains and a bus to get there), it’s hard to keep a place packed when you can only rely on the locals.
Well, thank goodness we didn’t take more, because we already knew from the first bite that it was all fried from frozen. So we tried basically the first three appetizers to test it out: the pan-fried chilli chicken, drums of heaven, and the honey chicken.
Even though I read all the Unilocal reviews warning me about this place, my boyfriend and I thought, «why not? They’re only complaining about the noodles and fried rice.» Our only interest in going was because we wanted to try everything Action Bronson tried on Fuck, That’s Delicious. Well, I just wanted to add my two cents or should I say two stars, because this place was truly disappointing.
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