Was planning to go to 虎連坊, but on the way we saw 竹地, and someone in my car insisted to try that place instead. 竹地 has been opened for long long time, and I've never been to there. I thought, hmm, it has survived for so long, it shouldn't be too bad right?
Tried it for the first time and... HOLY YUCK!
- no salmon toro (belly), out of negitoro roll (no toro? or no onion? com'on)
- menu is DIRTY with soya sauce stains, WTF (and boring, nothing special)
- salmon sashimi, thick cut, bad quality (similar to Samurai's)
- shredded radish are stale, weird taste.
- ultra ugly 慳電膽 in white made the food looks very bad and non-appetising
- unprofessional waitress: loud chat loud laugh at the back, hold hands like they're chilling at the mall. They'd just put down dishes without tell you what they are, and just said, "嚟..."
- unprofessional chef: no hat no nothing, I don't want hair on my food man! say lang jai x 2, put on a paper hat!
- there were a stack of extra plates at the end of the table, weird! I moved them to the next table, and the waitress took them back to our table. WTF. Obviously your customers don't want them occupied the space, why gave them back!?
- follow up to the point above: I was puzzled why put extra plates there, and felt offended to have the plates returned after I moved them away. After some fish bones were left on the plate, a waitress came and switched our plates with those clean ones. Why can't they bring the plate over when plate changing is needed?? One of us was still 'working' on a piece of fish, the waitress just WAIT there for a good 20 seconds for that person's plate. What a rude act! that was like she was thinking, "are you done yet with that??" WTF
- spider roll: only 4 pcs, no legs poking out, only tiny body. The 2 pcs at the ends have almost no "spider". WTF
- chopped scallop roll: tiniest size (think cheap cheap 青瓜卷), can only taste the mayo. The tiniest chopped scallop roll I've ever seen. WTF
- Udon quality is of the worse quality. All soft and bloated.
My gosh, 竹地, I will NEVER return in my lifetime!作者: et1984 時間: 2010-10-13 21:27
I'm sorry but where is it's location so we can know? ^_^作者: ACC-HE 時間: 2010-10-13 21:38
did you tip them good?作者: et1984 時間: 2010-10-13 22:36
sorry don't know where 自動洗狗 is >.<" I will make sure not going to 竹地 next time....
oh ya O.o the tip isn't included into the bill is it because some restaurant include tips in the bill now...作者: ACC-HE 時間: 2010-10-13 22:46
ah! there....hehe haven't been into that plaza for a long long time 作者: bubblesalt 時間: 2010-10-13 23:03
I went there once like 2 weeks ago too..
Here's what I notice:
1) When you first walk in the door, there is dolls everywhere, like Winnie the Pooh dolls, 3-4 of them sitting on the seat where people sit to wait for a table, about 6-8 at the bar, etc. How un-professional.
2) There is BAGS of groceries on the bar, like they just went shopping at T&T, just sitting there.
3)This lady came out wearing rubber gloves, like she just washed dishes at home, took them off, throw them on the bar and go "Wai, GAI DOR WAI AH" in Cantonese, I go "2 wai", and she took us to this table.
4) Yes, the table is sticky, the soya sauce bottle is sticky, there is people running around talking really loud Chinese, I totally feel like eating at some cheap cheap Chinese restaurant.
5) Food is just OK, the same kind I can get anywhere. Not cheap too, with the way they run, you would have thought it was a mom&pa shop with cheap food.
Just to say, I am NOT going back anymore.作者: peter236 時間: 2010-10-13 23:18
There are so many expensive Chinese restaurants, unlike this cheap Japanese restaurant.作者: 嘉嘉 時間: 2010-10-13 23:33
oh, went there once like almost 2 years ago
was ok ga wor作者: auyatyat 時間: 2010-10-13 23:34
我星期一去完,2個人食o左$86,比埋tips 成$100..
d o野食ok, 無遇到衰o既waiters,佢個餐牌係好污jo,好多積
門口仲係好多winnie the pooh
我o地唔係好食生o野,所以多數都係熟o野,味道ok,個牛仔骨幾好食
仲叫o左蜆,miso soup,牛肉刺身,天婦羅,冷面,兩個黑松露湯
我個朋友好耐先返vancouver 一次,平時o係edmonton 做o野,佢話要去果間就去果間
反正都係佢比...作者: rainbow-davie 時間: 2010-10-14 01:34
really? it used to be pretty good wor. Did they change the owner?作者: masterbear 時間: 2010-10-14 09:03
One of the owner been passed away last year.......作者: ACC-HE 時間: 2010-10-14 11:51
Me and hubby go there once in a while, and I agree they usually don't have salmon toro, nor tuna toro. Cuz that's what we both loved, and usually they don't have it. However, they do have some good stuff ge, I like their 碎帶子撈, and also apparently they have pretty good 羊架 ! Amazingly the 羊架 is really good and juicy all the time. The sushi chef that used to work at Yoshi, is now at this restaurant, so sometimes when we go there, he make us some daily special, as he usually do that when he was at Yoshi.
But I agree, their menu and table are sometimes quite sticky..作者: 小叻 時間: 2010-10-18 17:17
Yes! They have good 羊架 and I also like their "scallop, crab meat with mayo"..but forgot the food name lol~
I also like the 碎帶子撈 with seaweed...but then few months ago when I tried.. the scallops are not that tasty as before ~~ maybe not fresh..and their sashimi is bad too... a bit disappointed..作者: Bikki 時間: 2010-10-19 14:22
o.. i went there once as well, not a good experience as well..作者: auyatyat 時間: 2010-11-2 21:51
Obviously your customers don't want them occupied the space, why gave them back!?