Aehso's Output » food http://www.xlml.com/aehso John O'Shea's musings, observations and opinions on anything and everything. Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:31:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Wongs Chinese Restaurant in Ranelagh. http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2006/08/18/wongs-chinese-restaurant-in-ranelagh/ http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2006/08/18/wongs-chinese-restaurant-in-ranelagh/#comments Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:07:16 +0000 aehso http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2006/08/18/wongs-chinese-restaurant-in-ranelagh/ 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…

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

]]> http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2005/05/31/the-billboard-liberation-front-celebrate-mcdonalds-50th/feed/ 0 Why people like HOT, HOT, HOT food… http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2004/12/14/why-people-like-hot-hot-hot-food/ http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2004/12/14/why-people-like-hot-hot-hot-food/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:58:00 +0000 aehso http://www.xlml.com/aehso/?p=120 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…

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