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| - I love the cool concept and all, but the execution fell short. I've been wanting to check Le Red Tiger every time I visit Montréal, but that's what happened when you have high expectations for something.
Vietnamese food on the menu looks pretty legit, but if an Asian person had trouble eating the snails, I don't think, non-Asians would even bother eating them. It was impossible to get the snail meat out of many of them with the provided toothpicks. I've eaten snails before at other restaurants and they were always easier to remove the meat!
We ordered Chicken Wings, Snails, Beef and Pork Wrapped in Betel Leave, sticky rice with shredded pork, sausage, etc and chicken and shrimp imperial roll.
Chicken wings were good, albeit a little tiny for the price. The beef and pork betel leafs were ok, not great. The sticky rice dish was a heaping mess of different meats. It would be better to separate everything to make it nicer presentation and easier to assemble a tasty bite.
I had indigestion and vomited on the same night. Service was a little lackluster as our waiter tried to force us to take the wrong order from own mistake. We were strongly encouraged to take the vegetarian imperial roll that he put in by mistake instead of the chicken and shrimp roll which he claimed after the fact was sold out....so why didn't you give me the option to change before you cooked something I didn't order??? It was boring and tasteless.
Needless to say I would never recommend this restaurant nor would I eat here ever again.
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