Neptune Wonton Noodle, along with its much bigger sister restaurant Neptune Seafood right next next door, has been around for a long time. The business concept has been proven to work quite well in history, when Lumiere once ruled the fine dining scene in Vancouver along side with its casual dining room next door at Feenie’s, and in present time with the great David Hawksworth running both Hawksworth and Bel Cafe at Hotel Georgia, providing fine dining and casual dining services respectively. And how would this not be a brilliant idea? The pair of restaurants can share talents and resources, carry the same brand, but cater services to different clientele, getting the business of all worlds!
Unfortunately, I see potential problem for the Neptune group – they are just getting too comfortable with their reputation built up over the years by those royal customers. As a casual noodle and congee house, Neptune Wonton Noodle has lost its touch on their old staple dishes, and only focuses on a few dishes that keep their customers coming back.
The smaller dishes we got tonight were rather disappointing. The size of the congee bowl was small, the texture was too watery, and they even cheaped out on the ingredients. There were barely 4 or 5 slices of fish in LoLo’s tilapia congee, while the big sign of ‘Gold buy cheapest tramadol online Medal Tilapia Congee’ staring right back at us in the dining room. My wonton noodle soup was served in a bigger bowl, but the broth was weak and tasted of MSG instead of the clean shrimp flavour that I expected.
The plate of half “Princess” chicken ($12) was prepared well with some decent taste and texture. But the chicken was so tiny that there was barely any meat to share for 4 of us.
However, we noticed that the ‘Drunken’ Chicken Hot Pot ($30) was very popular in the dining room. I’m sure it is a good dish, but since when a wonton noodle and congee house has become the house of chicken hot pot? I think it is such a shame that a restaurant does not deliver 100% for everything on their menu.
The yes’s:
– some popular specialty dishes are good
– service is ok
The no’s
– noodle and congee dishes are not as good as their name suggests
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