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If I could give 0 stars, believe me I would.
The sign outside says "17 dollars" in gigantic font and "or up" in barely legible print. They also did not specify to us first-timers that the dinner menu, though serving the EXACT SAME FOOD as the lunch menu, would be twice the price.
The food was subpar at best. Our yam tempura was cold and crunchy... fairly obvious signs of a poorly cooked yam. Seeing as teens working their summers at The Exhibition can do it, I would think deep-frying would be a difficult thing to mess up. But with careful effort to be careless, every fried item on the list was uncooked. High prices do not necessarily mean high quality, demonstrates Riz, through their lack of authentic flavour, or any flavour for that matter. Bland and over-sauced, my friend and I were unimpressed.
Going against the cliché saying "it's QUALITY, not QUANTITY," Riz consistently was able to deliver neither throughout our courses. As we were conveniently uninformed at the beginning of our attempted dining experience, you only have an hour and a half to eat as much mediocrity as you can.
However, nothing could have left a worse taste in my mouth than the service. When I ask a server for a recommendation, I do not mean to ask a recommendation on my portion size. The three different servers we had were careful to 'suggest' when we had enough on our plates, so to speak.
Continuing on about their service, I would suggest you are careful in reading the menu. Reading "all you can taste" does not make one aware that it is "all you can taste if you can catch a waiter". Left and right the waiters scurried, their destinations seemingly everywhere but a table, most likely in order to run out the clock on your precisely timed eating.
Our dinner was charged with an extra hour, which was as you can guess infuriating. Not to worry though, we washed down our anguish with a pitcher of water that had been angrily slammed onto the table after a half hour of not being given a single thing to drink despite our polite requests.
For our underwhelming party of two, gratuity was included, which probably eliminated the incentive of doing a good job, or merely their job at all. I rarely find it acceptable to not tip at a restaurant, however the extra fees for left overs and surplus hours would have been just cause had it not been slapped on for us.
It's fortunate Riz makes twice as much money on one meal, because I would never come back a second time.
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