food


food and irishaehso on 18 Aug 2006 03:07 pm

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…

foodaehso on 31 May 2005 04:43 am

An interesting “improvement” to a McDonalds billboard, done in broad daylight in The Haight (San Fran). Kudos to the BLF, whoever they are!

foodaehso on 14 Dec 2004 08:58 am

So I’ve always wondered why I like eating hot currys - you’d think that eating something that makes burns the living bejaysus out of you couldn’t be enjoyable but I’ve finally found out why - they cause your brain to release endorphins

That Scoville Unit scale is pretty handy too - I’m looking forward to building up the ability to handle a cute little Jaloro…