Café de Hong Kong

If you like being berated for not giving a tip, after being asked to move mid meal with the wrong food you didn't order which tastes like crap! by an angry owner who turns to the other diners in the restaurant and says "all of these people are going to pay service"!! Then this is the place for you! WORST RESTAURANT EVER!

Went to this place and what i could say is non other than AWFUL. i made myself swear not to return although there must be at least once a week I dine around Chinatown. Worst so far. The food is just simply served. That kind of business minded boss oh god! When the receipt came, like all other restaurants, there is a RECOMMENDED gratuity added in the end and I thought I'm nt gonna pay and the boss came to us saying it is COMPULSORY for service charge. My argument was if it is for service charge I am so happy to pay if the receipt actually says service charge but it says RECOMMENDED gratuity! Seriously?!!!!

Simply put the worst food I have eaten in at least the last three years. The cuttlefish was simply awful and the less said about the duck tongues the better although I honestly couldn't say a good word about any of the dishes. Service was poor at best, even when you factor in the price which isn't even that cheap when you consider what's on offer in other places in China Town. To top it off several of the dishes were not available and there was the undeniable whiff of us being given the end of day left overs, despite it being only 9 when we went in. It really is saying something when the dish that are party enjoyed the most was the boiled rice.

I went with 5 friends feeling pretty optimistic about this restaurant, prices looked good and some of the food sounded different / exciting.

We ordered a fairly large variety, whole duck, sweet and sour pork, cuttlefish, ducks tongues & pigs trotters, brisket curry, fried beef dumplings and some rice / noodle dishes. About a 1/3 of what we ordered was unavailable but we managed to replace them with other items.

The food came within five minutes and was largely disappointing. We had to send back 5 of our dishes because they were only warm at best. Even after we had sent back 3 or 4 dishes the waitress continued to bring us out more ambient dishes. The dishes then came back again so quickly that they had clearly been microwaved.

The duck was thoroughly flavourless, the curry sauces were greasy and tasted like they were out of a jar. The best dishes were the noodles and special fried rice which were buffet standard. We failed to finish most of them.

When we complained at the end the old chap who manages the place said that many of the dishes were meant to be cold (I found this unlikely as they weren't cold but a bacteria loving body temperature), and that since we weren't happy we didn't have to pay the tip. We explained that we weren't paying the tip anyway and in the end left paying £70 for the six of us.

We all left feeling a little queasy and still hungry