Monday, January 2, 2012

Xian Ding Wei @ Queensbay Mall

I used to like coming here for a tete de tete after an exhausting round of shopping as the service staff here is wonderful.Not that the tea was great but more so because I liked the environment.
Heard of horror stories with regards to their KL staff but I really have to vouch for these gems here.
They're unobtrusive,attentive,sweet tempered,most of all,a really nice,happy bunch.

The nice sofas,good food,friendly staff made one feel right at home.
Burning candles beneath upraised serving bowls that dotted almost every table made it more exciting yet personal and intimate all at once.

But now the winds of change have swept in,where they seem to have taken bolder steps to introduce us to more chor loh taiwanese cuisines,that have been scaled down in portion and the extensive list has been wittled down to a large kindergarten school picturebook menu.

Thus the new menu meant
  1. That some of my favourite dishes were struck off the list
  2. That the new main course portions have shrunk in size
  3. That some so called tempura dishes end up terribly chewy
  4. That there are MORE pork and offal dishes
  5. Not that it is better,but the lean pork meat is now extremely dry,almost inedible
  6. That you get tempted by sizeable discounts on certain dishes that run out fast and thus you have to wait like a fool for the chefs to whip up some more
  7. That the bamboo charcoal tofu is heavenly while the scallop tastes like shit
  8. That the soups that come with their set meals now tastes like longkang water
  9. Even worse,the pork inside the soups now even come with pig hair.Tsk tsk hygiene...hygiene
  10. That what looks like kimchi on the side dish platter is not kimchi but taiwanese style pickles which are piercingly vingerarish and sweet all at once
  11. They have taken bold new steps to introduce you to more authentic taiwanese cuisines which can be either a liberating or wild toilet experience depending on how your stomach can take it.
  12. Which some regulars might hate or take time to get used to