World of Leion

Today I went to a Japanese restaurant of the M*F chain. This is a dessert place located at the basement of Ang Mo Kio Hub. I am surprised to find the place rather deserted at lunch time. My group of 12 had no issues at all to find seats.

Because of work commitments, I reached the place the latest. I was surprised to be told that many items were not available. It was lunch time and they are open for business and they have limited choices. I went to order at the counter as I had a membership card for the restaurant chain. I was told some of our orders were not available and even the staff are not clear on what was available and what not.  Had I went there alone, I would have left the place and settled for another eatery. It was only after another round of menu choosing that we managed to get our orders in. The bill came up to $130+ after discount. We were given another loyalty card. This is one of the most insincere card  I have seen in a long time. It works like this – gather 5 or 10 chops to get a free dessert. To get a chop, the total spending in the restaurant has to be over $10. I find it really amused to be given the card with one chop with a total spending like this.

I settled for Salmon Mayo Bento. My order came the last and it look really different from what I saw in the menu. The picture in the menu looked like raw reddish salmon.  Nevermind that the bento looked different from that menu. For some reasons, the salmon is all covered in the white mayo. I could not see any tinge of redness. Well, it looked like tuna to me. I tasted it, and it tasted cooked tuna to me. I took the bento and asked the casher about it. She and her colleague assured me that I was served salmon. I did not take a strong stand that it was tuna I was served. I ate enough salmon to know that was not salmon I was served. I went back and finish up my meal as there was supposed to be a meeting soon. As I ate, I grew angry with myself for not being assertive. I still believe I was cheated. For some reasons, I had reminded myself to relook at the notes from a course on being assertive earlier in the day. Though I did not have the time to look at the notes, it was a coincidence with this incident.

I have decided to boycott this particular branch. LOUSY EXPERIENCE to the max. Little wonder that place was so empty during the busy lunch hour.