Saturday, November 7, 2009

Long Beach @ Dempsey

As my birthday is next Tuesday, my family decided to celebrate it in advance. My mum booked a table at the Long Beach branch at Dempsey Road as we have not been there before.

After deciding on the food to order, we waved to a waitress but was told to wait a while as only certain waitresses could take orders. A "black-faced" waitress subsequently came over and left without saying a word or even smile after taking our orders. Felt that her service was very poor and it might be probably better if we had written down our orders on a piece of paper and just passed it to her instead =_=

The first 2 dishes - prawn and tofu arrived after a while. However, we had to wait for almost 15 minutes before the next dish was out. And we were rather surprised that it was the Chili Crab as it is usually the last dish to be served. Anyway, we started eating the crab and then suddenly the rest of the dishes were served all at once. Our hands were already "dirty" from eating the crab so we just left the other dishes aside and continue with the crab first, so the other food were a bit cold when we finally finished the crab >_< In addition, we ordered another small plate of buns as there was still quite a lot of chili crab gravy left over. However, when the buns were served, we were disappointed as the buns were only a little warm but yet it took so long for them to be served.

Overall, the taste of the food was not bad. I felt that one of the dishes was rather special - Hor Fun with La La King. Though the La La wasn't really as big as it sounded in the menu, the hor fun comprised of both fried and normal hor fun and it was the first time I had ever tried this. However, we regretted ordering the roasted chicken as we "forgot" that this was a seafood restaurant and the chicken was so normal that it could have been bought from any hawker centre. But I think the restaurant really needs to improve their service level as people have many other choices for seafood as well, and probably at cheaper prices too.

Prawns


Tofu


Chili Crab


Spinach with 3 types of eggs


Roasted Chicken


Hor Fun with La La King


杨枝甘露 (with ice-cream!?)


Black Glutinous Rice with ice-cream


Durian Pudding

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