I used to love the Wild Mango and have been going to it for three years now. This past weekend I went there again for lunch and was very very disappointed. I heard that there has been a new chef who certainly didn't do as good of a job as the chef before. The menu is exactly the same as it always has been but it did not taste the same.
I had a mango ice tea, chicken cream soup, Japanese eggplant, Strawberry spinach salad and the Sea scallops.
The ice tea was more blend than I remembered it.
The soup was fine.
The eggplant appetizer was very unappetizing. It had very thinly sliced tomatoes and eggplants (about 8 slices total) on the plate and "topped" with giant slab of mozzarella. I felt like I was eating a baked mozzarella mess with slimy juicy "something" on the bottom. Yuck.
The strawberry salad was alright, but not as carefully made as it used to. The dressing was a bit much than usual. (If I want extra dressing, I will ask for it!)
The sea scallop entree tasted just like it was before except that the chef over cooked the scallops! How could you mess up something like that at a restaurant this nice! It tasted like rubber. What a waste of a bunch of good tasty scallops.
Of course, being a good child. I finished all the food I could and brought home the left overs. I don't believe that food has to go to waste just because the chef can't cook.
Please Jia Wei, come back to be the chef!