Chinese restaurant

[newmonthnewnameagain]

Dish on the menu last night at a Chinese restaurant - King prawns glazed in honey. Sounds delicious.

Dish arrives and it looks like it's got melted cheese all over it. We ask the waiter what the dish was, he didn't know, hadn't ever seen it before. We ask another waiter and he says oh yes, that's the honey king prawns. But why's there cheese all over it? No, no... no cheese, it's mayonnaise.

WTF??!!

Apparently that's one of their house specialities, a traditional old Chinese dish.

I'm sceptical but happy to be told otherwise by the mumsnet jury! And why the hell didn't they mention the mayo on the menu?!

[MissionItsPossible]

Sounds horrendous. I’d make an official complaint.

[ItsaPeppaPink]

Was it tasty though??

[AnotherRoadsideAttraction]

Vom. That's disgusting!

[newmonthnewnameagain]

Peppa - it was like an eating challenge on I'm a Celeb!
It really was the worst thing I've tasted. Lukewarm prawns, smothered in mayo and then (possibly?) put in the oven for the mayo to melt/spread/infect!

[NewYearNewMe18]

Sounds horrendous. I’d make an official complaint.

Who to ? The Chinese Embassy?

Official complaint. Jesus wept

[PanPanPanPing]

"Who to ? The Chinese Embassy?"

It sounds awful. Perhaps they'd run out of honey and used mayonnaise instead, hoping you wouldn't notice!

[ScrubTheDecks]

It sounds disgusting.
I would have told them to take it back as it was not what was described on the menu.

[Heratnumber7]

Because mayo is a well known traditional Chinese ingredient 😀

[ScrubTheDecks]

And if they refused to take it off the bill: call Hong Kong Phooey!

[Fruitbat1980]

We have a ‘golden honey prawn’ at ours and it’s defintely not for mayo on it! It’s lightly battered prawns, covered in a sticky honey/ lemon drizzle and yum!
You were done over....

[Peterrabbitscarrots]

There’s a Chinese prawn dish that I always get when in USA, you don’t really see it here. It’s crispy king prawns with honey and walnut, and it comes with a small amount of creamy sauce. But it’s not mayo or cheese - what you had sounds awful!

[newmonthnewnameagain]

Not sure about official complaint - I doubt the Chinese embassy would be interested in my shitty meal

But we did complain to the restaurant and said it wasn't what was described, it was a thoroughly weird combination... they insisted that's their specialty, very popular and been on their menu for years. Apparently so popular that even one of their waiters hadn't recognised it . They tried to argue back with us and said it was a shame we didn't appreciate that different restaurants would treat dishes differently.

[Peterrabbitscarrots]

Did it look a bit like this, minus the walnut?

[LOL7]

That sounds awful 🙈 did they take it off the bill?

[JJS888]

Official complaint 😂😂😂

[ScreenQueen]

"Who to ? The Chinese Embassy?"

Do it do it do it do it do it do it.

[lynmilne65]

I thought Chinese didn't use milk products?

[Helloisitteaurlookingfor]

For the fact the prawns were like warm alone you should have sent it back. Yuck.

[newmonthnewnameagain]

Brew - I love trying new things, and as I said at the start, I'm happy to be told it's a traditional dish. I've never heard of mayo being used in Chinese cooking - if it is, well then I guess I've learnt something new.

[PeterPiperPickedSeaShells]

a traditional old Chinese dish.
Who knew mayonnaise was an ancient Chinese recipe?

[BertrandRussell]

“Person orders something they don’t like in restaurant”

In other news, bears shit in woods.

[newmonthnewnameagain]

Peterrabbit - nowhere near as nice as the one in your pic! But maybe that's the dish they were trying to create and it's just gone horribly wrong?!

I wish I'd taken a photo of it. It looked like a dish of prawns with a melted cheese sauce. Couldn't taste any honey either.

I'm just composing my Official Letter of Complaint to the Embassy

[newmonthnewnameagain]

Bertrand - not bothered as such that we didn't like it, it was more that it was such an unexpected ingredient. Maybe worth a mention on the menu?

[Hoppinggreen]

When I was at school I had quite a few Chinese friends who’s parents had restaurants and take always
They would refuse to serve us anything off the menu as that was designed for an English palate ( this was 20years ago so things have moved on a bit) and would insist on us having the food they and the staff ate.
Maybe the dish was what the chef mistakenly thought “English” people eat. Some proper Chinese food can be a bit out there with bones and beaks etc. The restaurant we go to have 2 menus and I always order off the Chinese one