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| - I'm sorry to do this to you Tree Country, you used to be a 5-star place to me. I moved away from Cleveland Heights and was looking forward to coming here after so long.
I was with a group of people and we ordered one dish per person to split between us. We got a Mango Chicken dish, Pad Thai, two Hawaiian rolls, Green Tofu Curry, and Bulgogi.
Fast forward 15 minutes later when the food arrives. At first I was surprised at how quickly the food came, but I soon realized why. The bulgogi was at most half a pound of beef. The Green Curry was ridiculously small. I would have needed at least two of either of those dishes for a meal. It's $13! What a joke. The special rolls also have gotten smaller as well.
After having a bit of each dish, here are my impressions.
-Bulgogi: Not only a tiny portion, but tasted syrupy and bad. Not traditional at all and tasted too sweet.
-Green Curry: This was actually really good. But the portion size was so unbelievably small. For $13, that is a joke. I've honestly gotten curry lunch specials for $5 with more food.
-Hawaiin Roll: This was really good as well, but smaller than before.
-Mango Chicken: Terrible. The vegetables and the chicken tasted like nothing, like they were just steamed despite there being a brown liquid in the dish. Way too watered down. Unless you had mango in the bite, it was just bad. And even then it wasn't that great.
-Pad That: Really bad. It was dry and was very sweet with nothing to counteract that.
So the bill comes out to $92.XX (what a ripoff, we were still hungry) and my friend who was treating us gives the server $103. She goes up to get her change and the server looks at her and said "Usually you tip 15% or more." For one, she didn't even tip yet, he just assumed that the extra was the tip. Two, even if that was the tip, that's perfectly fine. $10 for bringing out a few plates and giving us water? And three, you don't tell someone how much to tip! It was unbelievably rude. Unfortunately, I didn't quite understand what was happening until after we left because the server when I asked what he just said he said "don't worry about it," but I can say one thing for sure. I'm never going back there to my previously favorite restaurant on Coventry. Maybe if the food was just "meh" I would have given them another chance sometime.
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