Dear Brides to be
I just attended my friend's wedding dinner on 6 Oct and I must highlight some things for the couples to take note :
1) waiter should standby at their respective tables to serve drinks, we waited for about 15 mins and no waiter approached us to take order of our drinks. I had to signslled to one waiter from another table to serve us drinks.
2) most waiters were busy with their side station ecen at 8pm, which I personally think thet they should have prepared their side stations well before 7pm.
3) menu was typed wrongly and the photocopied menu has a black line across. We were served a scallop dish whereas the menu was typed as sauteed cuuttlefish & sliced chicken with vegetable in spicy sauce.... I suggest you check the menu first, portrayed a very slip-shod image of the restuarant.
4) 1st dish was OK, 2nd dish was the wrong dish in the menu. 3rd dish was deep fried prawn in two way - tasted like fish cake, nothing special ( don't opt for this dish, can see from my neighbouring tables that most of the guests did not finish their food ) 4th dish was shark's fin - suggest to the restaurant not to add too much MSG to make the soup tasty. It was way too 'tasty' and a bit on the watery side with hardly any fins in the soup. 5th dish was selected vegetables with selected mushrooms ( this is the worst, hardly any guests touch this dish - salty too and presentation doesn't like appetising at all, about 75% of the dish was left untouched). 6th dish was the sea bass - fish was OK but the 'mud' taste was very very strong. 7th dish was chicken 'noble house' style - nothing unique, just a normal roast chicken - very common. 8th dish was Ee-fu noodles - after a few unpleasant dishes, we very very skeptical to try the rest of the dishes including dessert. In the end, we went to lau pa sat to have supper & really enjoyed our supper.
5) sound system was OK, not too bad but can be improved as we could hardly hear what the compere said, the restuarant should have taken the initiative to adjust the volume accordingly.
6) centrepiece was a water bowl with gerberas and in tea light in it, quite pretty but the room was so bright that it does not show it's full potential in the centrepiece, it does not have any effect in the room at all.
7) waiters at a much later time were a little more attentive to top up our drinks but they need to be more polite & service orientated, even the coffee shop hawkers put on a smile when they serve the food, but the waiters were either black face or spoke quite rudely.
Just to highlight how the wedding wwent and please take care.
Mary