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| - So I wasn't hungry when I dropped in to visit my friend at his storein Chinatown. But it was lunch time, and they were craving this lamb hotpot that they said was really big and good from this Chinese restaurant I don't know about by their Chinese name.
The restaurant turned out to be J & J Szechuan Cuisine, which I had bookmarked to try their lunch specials earlier this year. The interior of the restaurant looks and feels really vintage (not in a good way). But from experience, I know some of the best Chinese food are served at this hole-in-the-wall type restaurants. After we were seated and handed our menu, my friends proceed to order the Lamb Hot Pot (which they said was off the menu). Sounds good. I love the whole secret menu concept.
After a fair amount of time has passed and we have completely demolished the appetizers and the Cold Noodle we ordered, the waitress finally brought out the hot pot. The reaction from my friends was that this was not what they were served on their previous visit. The portion is a lot smaller (as in about half of what they were served the last time). So instead of it being a hearty large portion that could be split with 3 people, it was just enough to accommodate 2 people at the most. It was a good thing that I was not hungry to begin with. The noodle was also cooked so much that you can't even pick it out with a chopstick, as it has pretty much been cooked to mush. They spoke to the waitress and asked why this did not look like what they ordered previously, but the waitress just argues back saying we do not remember what we ordered the last time. Considering the portion is less than half of what my friends ordered the last time. And he took pictures of what he ordered from his previous visit. I highly doubt that. Smh.
When they asked if it can be returned, since it was so different from what was served before, the waitress just said no!
To add insult to injury (or is it injury to insult? I wonder which is worst) one of my friend found a random string from who knows what in the Lamb Hot Pot. We should have taken a picture of it first. Because when we showed it to the waitress, she dismissed it as just a piece of noodle (It is right there on our table. Try eating it!). Then she said it was the string from the noodle package and just picked it up without offering an apology. Yeah, that was about the only smart thing she did. Get rid of the evidence!
So inconsistency in what is served, even if it is a secret off the menu item, is already a big red flag for me to never return here again. But the fact that a foreign object was found in the food and the customer received the "No F Given" attitude when confronted about it, is just the final nail in the coffin.
So yeah, even by Asian/Chinese restaurant standards, this place has crap service and subpar food. Thus probability of return is less than 0.1%. But in the event of a zombie apocalypse, I will bookmark this place since it will still be low on other people's list of places to scavenge for food.
1 star, because half stars are not supported on Yelp.
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