Food & Tea @ AEON Seberang Perai City
January 4, 2009
Went back to BM recently and managed to find some time to visit AEON Seberang Perai City again. Besides shopping, another reason was to try one of the restaurants new to me. After excluding the Japanese and Korean restaurants, we were down to either Food & Tea or Hongkie Recipe. In the end, we decided to dine at Food & Tea since we have tried the latter before at E-Gate.
We thought we made the correct decision judging on the number of customers at the restaurant compared to the rest. Even the menu looked pretty good with plenty of food which seemed reasonable priced.
I had a recommended drink called Pineapple Cubes in Coconut Milk @ RM4.80 while SL had the Purple Rain (some sort of blackcurrant smoothie) @ RM6.30. Oh, the pineapple drink was surely a tempting thing, taste wise it was pretty okay too. If only they had hollowed out the pineapple properly and given more fresh pineapple cubes, then the drink would have been better. I only hope they don’t reuse the pineapple for hygiene reasons. On the other hand, Purple Rain tasted like something made from juice powder.. not recommended.
A starter we had was the Seafood Salad Roll, which was a recommended item. They come in four pieces and specially blended mayonaise as the dipping sauce. And according to the menu, this is a best-seller (RM5.80)
Prawn and some crab filament are wrapped in each salad roll, deep fried to crispy and golden brown. I thought they tasted ok after the first bite but the taste got worse on the subsequent bites, I don’t know why. Barely finishing the second piece, I already wanted to stop and move on to other food (too oily maybe?)
Then came SL’s Sweet & Sour Pork Skewers with Ramen Noodle @ RM6.80. As interesting as the concept of combining ramen and pork skewers might be, it was screwed up by the noodle’s weird tasting sauce. I honestly don’t know what was on the chef’s mind when he invented the sauce. It had all the flavors of sour, spicy and sweet - like mixing Sichuan sauce and Kimchi together omg. So bad I would use the words 不三不四 to describe it in Chinese.
Lastly, Smoked Ham and Cheese Focaccia @ RM5.50, which is basically a toasted focaccia bread topped with lots of cheese, ham and tomato paste. I didn’t especially enjoyed it since I found it to be so-so at best. Gimme a bread, some cheese and tomato paste and I bet I can prepare something that taste similar, if not better than this, lol.
Although I have only ordered a few item off the menu, I can already safely conclude that I won’t be a returning customer. Not only the food sucked, service was bad too. And it would take a really persuasive man to convince me to dine at Food & Tea again, even just for a yam char session.
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Food and Tea?.. first time go.. ok… everything still fine….
but 2nd visit was disaster….. try 3rd time… I am sorry….
that’s the reason u din see PTP write about thme even we had tones of photo on hand….
aiks… so bad ar..
The pineapple drink presentation is special. Like you said, hope they don’t reuse the pineapple ler… else… yucks!
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vk: Yes, my experience was very bad.. I don’t know about the other food though.. don’t dare to go anymore.. better try the rest
well its a good place for me to drop by for a french toast n “lai cha”..since theres 1 at tesco, a 2min drive from my house
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vk: well I guess they can’t go wrong with a simple french toast
that bad ah???
is this a francise biz or just open from those youngsters like earning an income??
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vk: Yeah, pretty bad.. It is a franchise biz.. there are a few outlets in Klang Valley as well.
ya..u r so rite, the service is so terrible and the food sucks.! i went to the one at jusco kepong, and they hire all those secondary school kids to serve us! the price of the food is not equivalent to the taste at all….even their french toast also sucks…sorry to caci them…no choice…
most of the food there sucks. but the smoked ham foccacia with lots of cheese is rather passable. i kinda enjoyed it, even.
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I am put off by the name in the first instance - Food & Tea? How more obvious can you get?! Nothing looks good, and this has got nothing to do with your photography VKeong!
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I like the lai char esp. from HK joints. Different from local and mamak. The food that bad eh!
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salad rolls contain only salad inside?
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I wrote about this previously. The food was just so so. The drinks that I ordered was too sweet. Overall, like what u said, I will not go there again. Better for me to save my money to another good restaurant.
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Tks for dropping by. Nice review and pics you have here.
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The price was surprisingly cheap! But of course, the tradeoff was quality, I suppose. I haven’t seen any in Penang Island before so I never tried.
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Everything that I ordered that night was a nightmare! The food and drinks are just not right!
Bye bye Food & Tea
不三不四 ! LOL.
Come on, PTP! You should also blog out those bad experiences lah.
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vry vry vry vry vry bad bad bad bad servis and food no good