Have gone a number of times in the past several months along with my wife. At first, everything was fine except for the loud echo throughout. At any busy times we have to scream at each other to be heard - especially when the sound they refer to as 'music' is loud.
They are in serious need of some acoustical absorption.
The last time we went three days ago, I ordered the Curry in large bowl. He asked if I wanted protein. I told him the Sausage and asked if that's the spiciest-hot of them all. He nodded in agreement.
Partway through his putting shrimp on, I was surprised, although I figured maybe he couldn't hear me with all the echo in the place - besides, I haven't had shrimp in years!
I did notice he was scraping the bottom of the brown rice bowl to scoop some out for me and went over to tell someone that the bowl was nearly empty, shrugged his shoulders and scraped enough to give me a serving of the bottom of the bottom.
We paid and then proceeded to eat-in.
I noticed rather quickly that the brown rice was clumped into little pieces about the size of marbles and felt like I was chewing on pieces of broken glass, I commented to my wife that I will break a tooth if I try to eat this rice and started picking through the rice, putting the hard pieces on the metal tray.
She mentioned I should return it.
I started working on the shrimp. I ate maybe four out of about seven.
I told my wife I hate confrontation. She then saw my discouragement and took it up and said something.
I waited about two minutes and they come and ask me if white rice is alright instead to which I replied in the affirmative.
After what seemed like a long time, a guy finally gets the dish back to me with an apology.
I begin eating then noticed that the several good shrimp I returned were now missing - I went through the entire meal and not one shrimp was there.
I certainly did not expect to get more shrimp than I paid for but felt that I should at minimum get the shrimp I did pay-for.
We finished and, on the way out, I told my wife "never again, I'll never go back there again."
Too bad. They could have used a negative situation for their benefit as opposed to losing a fairly regular customer (or two).
Price
Every time, I got the large bowl. I must admit I walked away full every time in the beginning, paying between $20 and $24 for two adults with one drink. When we began going there, the portions were nearly overflowing the large bowl, they were really heaped high. The last several visits, the portions aren't nearly as large and I noticed I was in need of a dessert (elsewhere) after the meal where I wasn't before. read more