Crap meals outI'd chosen to take my in-laws to one of my favourite restaurants, only to discover it had changed hands the week before. We waited half an hour to get menus. The waitress broke the cork in the wine we ordered. She got our order wrong. The food was luke-warm, mine was overcooked, the rest was undercooked. After waiting another 40 minutes for the last course, we were told that we couldn't have any as the chef had "forgotten to de-frost the puddings".
Let's just say they didn't get a tip. Tell us of your crap meals out.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 14:22)
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Two awful dinners in a row -- and we were attacked with a dead chickenHalf way through a holiday in Vietnam, we arrived in Hue. Ah, gastronomic capital of South East Asia. Dinner number 1 was a Vegetarian Restaurant. With Pork, Chicken and Beef on the menu. I ordered a stir fried dish with pork and vegetables. It turns out some sick bastard invented vegetarian pork with vegetarian pork fat on it. And it didn't taste of pork.
Meal number 2 was even worse. I ordered a "special" off the menu -- beer steamed chicken. When it arrived, it was rubbery, pale and smelled of stale beer (not surprising, in hindsight). I cut off a piece and found it was raw inside. I told them I don't generally eat raw chicken. I refused to have it resteamed over the same beer and instead ordered sweet and sour chicken. When it arrived, it smelled and tasted of stale beer. When I complained and told them that they had reused the last meal to make this meal, the waiter went to the kitchen, and then ran out waving a chicken carcass at me to show that he had used a different chicken. Didn't make a lot of sense to me. I told him that it was the worst meal I had ever been served and that the restaurant should be shut down. That was when we realised that we were in a foreign land, with an unfamiliar police force. We walked out slowly, but we were sprinting by the end of the driveway.
And it rained nonstop for 48 hours.
(, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 21:06, Reply)
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