While booking a table for dinner tonite I just remembered to post a small warning on a recent experience. Dinner in Wongs Chinese Restaurant in Ranelagh last Thursday turned out to be one of the worst dining experiences I’ve ever had in a restaurant in Dublin. Yep, I think I’ll even include take-away dining experiences in that observation.

  • Stale prawn crackers. Imagine, a “gourmet” Chinese restaurant that cannot even serve fresh prawn crackers. Then imagine that they store said prawn crackers on shelves above the cloak room rails (I kid you not).
  • Uninspired, bland, overpriced, precooked main dishes. Incredibly, we were were served about two minutes after ordering, they did not even pretend to cook the food after it was ordered.
  • An obligitary 10% service charge added to the bill total - for a table of 3. I thought this begorra-chance-me-arm practice had died out in the 90s?

How such a terrible restaurant can survive in a gastro-mecca like Ranelagh is beyond me. Silly rich people who don’t know any better perhaps?

Back to Zen in Rathmines for me that type of meal in future…