HONG KONG HOUSE RESTAURANT
3023 Barons Rd
Nanaimo, BC
V9T 3Y6
(250) 758-1558
Rating:
1 out of 5 stars
(
1 reviews)
Hours: Monday
Sunday
11AM
10PM
Sunday
11AM
9PM
Holidays
4PM
9PM
Payment Methods: Visa, MasterCard, Cash
Description
Hong Kong House Restaurant offers these services: chinese, restaurant, chinese restaurant.
by ourbis
on July 17, 2013 from ourbis
Reviews
Offensively bad food. Rude management. AVOID!: I’ve eaten in some bad restaurants in my time. However, I’m quite a passive, easy-going person. So what’s driven me to writing this – a review of the WORST CHINESE RESTAURANT I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED IN MY WHOLE LIFE?<br/><br/>Hong Kong House in Nanaimo has pushed me over the edge. The food they served us wasn’t bad, it was INSULTINGLY BAD! It was so indescribably revolting that I find myself absolutely hell bent on warning anyone in, or planning to visit, Nanaimo NEVER to eat at this god forsaken hell-hole, this wretched, stinking, rancid abomination and insult to Chinese cuisine.<br/><br/>We ordered spring rolls. I think they were left over from the buffet and quickly refried. The “plum sauce” came in sachets. I knew we were in trouble.<br/><br/>The egg fried rice arrived and went cold before any main courses materialised.<br/><br/>The meat in the Kung Po Chicken must have come from an extra-special factory. One where they save the fattiest, nastiest scrapings of an intensively reared bird’s rectum then collect it up, freeze it and bag it up for the lowest bidders.<br/><br/>(Incidentally I recently found a Health Inspectors report stating that their inspectors found chicken and fish thawing together in their kitchen!<br/>
<a href="http://www.healthspace.com/Clients/VIHA/VIHA_Website.nsf/0/B87D9CC57CD58FB1882573CD00476F55?OpenDocument" rel="nofollow">www.healthspace.com/Clients/VIHA/VIHA...</a> )<br/><br/>The “beef” in the strangely absent black bean sauce was off white / grey. It was about 90% pure fat and gristle.<br/><br/>These guys couldn’t be using cheaper ingredients if they tried.<br/>
TINNED mushrooms and baby sweetcorn in the dishes! I mean, come on!!!<br/><br/>I arose from my table and told a restaurant’s management that I wasn’t eating it, and wasn’t paying for it. First time I ever done such a thing.<br/><br/>The manageress ranted and raved at us.<br/><br/>“We been in business 12 years nobody ever complained.”<br/><br/>“REALLY! I said. Well as of tonight you can NEVER say that again. Because I’m complaining!”<br/><br/>(Turns out after speaking with people on restaurant forums that I am far from the first person to complain there! What a surprise!)<br/><br/>Then she tells me not to get angry. I’m not angry. I’m just insulted that she thinks she can get away with serving us meat that’s barely fit for a dog to consume and then have the cheek to charge us for it!<br/><br/>As I suspected, the anger was all hers. I’d affronted her ego.<br/><br/>“We been serving everyone in Nanaimo. Everybody say they like it. Now you say you don’t like it. But this is YOUR problem. It is not OUR problem.”<br/><br/>I hope you’re reading this Ms. Manageress. Because I must expose you as the charlatans and embarrassment to China that you are. I bet it’s your white Mercedes parked outside isn’t it? Made from the huge profits derived from 12 years of serving chicken and beef abortions with tinned mushrooms in pre-packaged MSG-ridden sauces and calling it Chinese food to the people of Nanaimo who really, really should know better.<br/><br/>HONG KONG HOUSE, Nanaimo. My name is Nemesis. If you had taken my constructive and polite criticisms even a modicum of grace then you might not have created this monster. You know and I know that the quality of the meat you buy in is the lowest that is allowed for human consumption. In fact, I wonder even if it is. That’s why I’ll be tipping off the health inspectors to pay you guys another random visit.
Rated 1 stars by Dan Nemesis
on February 28, 2009