The waitresses refused to provide Dim Sum starting at 2:00pm while the restaurant closes at 3:00. There is no fresh food to serve. Don't go there unless you are an early bird!
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The waitresses refused to provide Dim Sum starting at 2:00pm while the restaurant closes at 3:00. There is no fresh food to serve. Don't go there unless you are an early bird!
I have always been a fan of the "old school" dim sum restaurants with ladies making the rounds with their carts bearing towers of bamboo steamers filled with goodies. The Metropol is brilliantly located in the heart of Admiralty, making it a very convenient choice for office dwellers in search of lunchtime sustenance. Also, they're big, so chances are that you will get a table. This time, we had a little office gathering for a colleague's birthday and I think I speak for all of us when I say tha
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I have always been a fan of the "old school" dim sum restaurants with ladies making the rounds with their carts bearing towers of bamboo steamers filled with goodies. The Metropol is brilliantly located in the heart of Admiralty, making it a very convenient choice for office dwellers in search of lunchtime sustenance. Also, they're big, so chances are that you will get a table. This time, we had a little office gathering for a colleague's birthday and I think I speak for all of us when I say that the food was delicious, the service good and we all had a fabulous time. Must haves include the BBQ Pork and the Steamed Beef Balls, but with the exception of the Xiao Long Bao (which sadly arrived deflated and dry), the food was all very enjoyable. This is not the "haute cuisine" of a Tim Ho Wan or Shang Palace, but nitty gritty wholesome dim sum for the casual munchies. If you want unpretentious authentic dim sum at affordable prices, you cannot go wrong with this one. It is not crowded with tourists like Maxim's and while you need to be quite proactive to get any food, this is a quintessential Hong Kong dining experience and I always love to take my visitors here.
The Metropol is the absolute go to place when guests are in town who want no-nonsense dim sum that is of good quality, affordable and without any of the touristy drama. The place is also great for big group dining. The good is consistently good and they have all my favourites, including char siu tzan bao (is that how you spell it?). Important to remember: this place is popular with locals so it fills up fast at lunchtime. If you're on a tight schedule, better book in advance, memorize the bookin
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The Metropol is the absolute go to place when guests are in town who want no-nonsense dim sum that is of good quality, affordable and without any of the touristy drama. The place is also great for big group dining. The good is consistently good and they have all my favourites, including char siu tzan bao (is that how you spell it?).
Important to remember: this place is popular with locals so it fills up fast at lunchtime. If you're on a tight schedule, better book in advance, memorize the booking code they give you over the phone and remember that even with that booking code, you may still have to wait up to ten minutes when you get there. It's worth the wait though!
The restaurant is absolutely huge, but there are several ladies moving through the aisles of tables, pushing their carts with all the yummy stuff... Spring rolls, deep fried squid tentacles, egg tarts, crispy pieces of suckling pig, congee, har gao, siu mei, char siu bao, lau sa bao, cheung fan, and much more... It's great fun to check what's in all the different bamboo steamers. You can't be shy though because the ladies will move on if you don't stop them; they don't have time for indecisive tourists (....and quite rightly so, there are many diners who're on a very short lunch break and who need sustenance and cannot afford to wait for people being awkward. This restaurant is fun for tourists but it is not a designated tourist attraction. People mean business here....LOL)
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Be proactive and check out what's cooking at the station in the middle of the restaurant where there are spring onion cakes, bell peppers stuffed with fish paste and other delights.
The food can be tasty, albeit salty at times. Foods range in flavours and prices (I personally think they charge too much per dish).Service is convenient, but only if you can withstand the servers' slow responses and their hasty, tiresome attitudes. They most certainly did not want to work there, and my co-workers and I had to get rid of empty dishes ourselves, and find hot water to put in our teapots. The worst part of this meal was that when I tried to hand off some empty dimsum shells and a p
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The food can be tasty, albeit salty at times. Foods range in flavours and prices (I personally think they charge too much per dish). Service is convenient, but only if you can withstand the servers' slow responses and their hasty, tiresome attitudes. They most certainly did not want to work there, and my co-workers and I had to get rid of empty dishes ourselves, and find hot water to put in our teapots.
The worst part of this meal was that when I tried to hand off some empty dimsum shells and a plate (that had some sauce on it from gai lan) to the waitress, she told me it was fine and to let go, and let go I did. Then she dropped everything and not surprisingly, most of it landed on me. I had to clean it up myself, and after I talked to their customer service manager, I didn't feel like they took me seriously. I've been to numerous restaurants like this one and sure, their attitudes (and sometimes the service) are all abysmal but I have never had a waitress spill anything on me. Never. I may not look old enough to seem as if I know what I'm talking about, but I know what customer service is, and the time that the customer service manager gave me was apparently too much to ask for. He didn't even bother offering me any services, neither did he maintain eye contact during my complaint. Naturally, I lost my appetite and my contentment after this incident and I will not hesitate to recommend other restaurant in lieu of Metropol, no matter how convenient it may be for people who work and/or live nearby.
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