Terrible Food & Service

Terrible Food & Service

Featuring Jia Yuen Eating House (Tanjong Pagar MRT)
Eddie Tan
Eddie Tan

Food looks good but doesn’t taste good.

I came on a Saturday afternoon, 30th June.. had a plate of salted egg buttermilk pork but it didn’t taste that good as what people has commented on the reviews. Perhaps it was an unlucky day for me, pork meat was overcooked and it’s hard to chew. The meat were all pre-fried beforehand and were recooked once every order was taken. Buttermilk was rather overpowering and it does not have any salted egg taste. The sunny side egg was overdone and cold too.

More importantly, service was bad. I was standing in front of the stall for about 10 mins. They seemed to be busy handling orders but did not bother about me and totally ignored my presence although I was the only person standing in front of the stall.

Finally when I get to have the cook's attention to make my order, I mentioned in mandarin “一盘咸蛋猪肉饭”, which was literally translated from their English menu “salted egg chicken/pork rice” 
I was surprised that the cook, who is a Chinese National could not understand and speak Mandarin and kind of expected me to speak in his own dialect. He could not understand "咸蛋" means salted egg. He replied to me something like "虾蛋“ which it does not seem right to me.

Basically we could not understand each other, I have to point to him to the poster that was placed in front of the stall. Finally he got to know what I want, he gave me a stern look as if all the while I have said something wrong to him, and I could see he was not happy in serving me. 

I came because of the good reviews I saw from the social media. But after this experience I would think $8 for a plate of overhyped salted egg dish, it is not worth it.

Will not come back again as the food and service is terrible.

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