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2014-08-10
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I went to Prima on National Day 14, to celebrate my mum in law’s birthday. I regret to say that this is the worse experience we ever had.Prima recommended the National Day Set, which costs me $550+ after GST. The menu includes a lobster salad, Peking duck, shark fin, broccoli with abalone, steam fish, noodle, and chrysanthemum cake. Although the ingredients used are quite generous, I found that the menu still lacked something.Lobster salad:My mother-in-law thought that the lobster salad tasted m
Prima recommended the National Day Set, which costs me $550+ after GST. The menu includes a lobster salad, Peking duck, shark fin, broccoli with abalone, steam fish, noodle, and chrysanthemum cake. Although the ingredients used are quite generous, I found that the menu still lacked something.
Lobster salad:
My mother-in-law thought that the lobster salad tasted more like chicken salad. My bro in-law thought it was pork salad. We ended up eating the beans and vegetable of the salad instead of the lobster. I am 100% sure the lobster is way overcooked.
Peking duck:
Instead of a crispy duck skin and juicy duck meat, the duck skin I had was dry without any oil. It tasted harder than an over-barbecued pork slice. I think they pre-cooked it in the afternoon, and microwave it at night.
Shark fin:
Rather tasteless – no doubt every bowl has a lot of shark fin, but the soap had no other taste.
Broccoli with Abalone:
Broccoli is not cooked. We only ate the abalone.
Noodle:
Ok, but it is as good as the coffee-shop standard. I think is a new cook.
Chrysanthemum cake:
This is the best of the day, but I think they prepared beforehand.
I am not sure if they got temporary cooks, but the standard is worse than any coffee shop I been to. I saw the chef cook came up around 8.30pm, I think must have lots of complaints.
Actually I like this restaurant before this incident, I go there twice a month for dim sum, it is good. But I will recommend against going during festival season, or occasions when they do mass cooking.
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