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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Pei Wei revisited

[Update - Closed and is now a bank]

This past Saturday, we met Bert's mom and his brother for lunch. Bert just came in from his haircut, while his bro and mom were in the area doing errands and such. It was my second time and Bert's first there. Here's the self serve area.
We ordered three different dishes. We ended up getting two wrong dishes and got one whole new dish as well as a $10 giftcard for their fkup. The first dish was the lemon and black pepper chicken with white rice. I didn't really like this. I don't like eating chicken in restaurants. Always too salty. This dish wasn't really memorable for me because it was so generic tasting.
This was SUPPOSED to be the Ginger Garlic Beef with Broccoli and brown rice. Instead, they gave us the Mongolian Beef which has neither broccoli nor ginger in it. This was the first mistake I noticed. We ended up liking the Mongolian beef but asked them to just give us the broccoli on the side. That took forever and we only got five pieces. I hope they weren't like the chefs in the movie "Waiting"...
This was the third dish and the second mistake. We ordered the Honey Glazed Shrimp. When I first saw this, I thought, "Damn, that's some pretty big and chunky shrimp." Yeah, shrimp on steroids. It was actually chicken. We checked the receipt which clearly said "shrimp". So Bert pointed this out to the flustered waitress (and there was only one), who then got the manager. He apologized, got us a new order and gave our table a $10 giftcard.
Prior to our table's order mixup, we heard and saw another family at a table meet the same fate. They too got a wrong dish and complained about it. The manager had to go out to kiss their ass too and give them a gift card. Suffice it to say, I don't really want to go here again. Their food is dumbed down Chinese food just like PF Changs. And just to let you know, we weren't a-holes about this. It was puzzling since the restaurant wasn't packed. There were only 2 or 3 other tables filled when we got there. I know this is a new place, give them a break, yadda yadda. But two mixups when it was clearly ordered? The cooks must have been asleep or on auto pilot.
This is the shrimp now...
Wait a minute, maybe those pictures are reversed! Either way, they both looked the same. The shrimp was better tasting than the chicken and that was polished off quickly. Pei Wei again? No way!

4 comments:

KirkK said...

He-he-he, I guess you didn't care for the food at Pei Wei (aka PF Chang's Jr). I'd rather go to Golden Chopstick, Mandarin Canton, or Royal Mandarin......

caninecologne said...

kirk,
You got that right! Royal Mandarin can give Pei Wei a beat down any day!

Unknown said...

Okay, I seriously cannot check out your blog without getting hungry! LOL! BTW, I posted some restaurant reviews for some cool places in Montreal...if you guys ever venture out that way.

caninecologne said...

hi chrissy
yes, i saw your restaurant pics....if we're ever up there, we will try those places.