Foo Gwai

Posted by: happyeater | 26 January 2010, 6.02pm

Food is average/good but not good enough to return, and would not recommended. Majority of the Food was no doubt tasty, but warm and some seafood did not seem the freshest.

Service was the worse ive experienced in any restaurant. Staff were unattentive, sluggish and had to be constantly prompted to receive any attention or food items/condiments.

We enquired if there was any more food (because there seem to be no trolleys circulating with dim sum) and the waitress replied "Yes.. there is, I'll bring it out shortly". 15 mins later, still no sign of any food.

Nevertheless, we left unsatisfied, and when we paid for the bill, we realised they overcharged us one dimsum dish...

We later spoke to the lady boss to try and give her some constructive critism about her staff (whether she may or may not have known) to maybe improve their hospitality skills telling her that that they were quite unattentive and slow... she just replied "Yes, I don't know why..."

I would have loved to be able to recommend this restaurant as one of the main reasons my gf and I were eager to try was for the 'soup dumplings' you can't usually find anywhere else. That being said, I sadly cannot recommend this place and will not come back due to the bad service, and slightly stale food.

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Posted by: tigorbear | 3 August 2009, 10.08pm

I come back to this place over and over and over again because I can NEVER get enough of their steamed prawn dumplings! They are soooo delicious - nice and plump, full of juicy prawn meat. They chilli deep fried squid tentacle is also super yummy (altho on the odd occassion, the oil it is cooked in is old/burned and this affects the taste of the squid).

Service is pretty ordinary. They are quick to give you a table when u first walk in, but sometimes it takes ages to flag them down for a drink order, fork/spoon etc

Still - I love it because of their steamed prawn dumplings. I see them at least once a month :)

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Posted by: Martin77 | 31 December 2008, 10.12pm

We moved to Perth from Melbourne 5 months ago and since then didn't have yum cha. I researched the internet and found Foo Gwai (which got bad and good reviews). So we went to check it out today.

The restaurant was half empty and it still took 10 mins waiting to be seated. After that another 10+ minutes to get our drinks ordered. Then we finally ordered our food as it's not traditional yum cha where you can pick from the trolleys.

BBQ pork buns - better than average

Prawn dumplings - overcooked so the wrapper was sticky and was breaking as you touched it.

Shanghai dumplings - average (had better one)

Spicy octopus - overcooked in old/burned oil, very oily and tasteless.

Sticky rice - supposed to be steamed in lotus leaf but arrived in rice bowl?

Deep-fried custard buns - asked if they can do it, they said "sure" but to my surprise they deep fried it in same oil as our octopus and it also tasted like it. :o(

Chinese broccoli - we ordered it, waited, waited and 15 mins later been told in a very unfriendly manner that it had been sold out.

Coconut pudding - never arrived.

Service - there was no service.

This all may sound very harsh but sadly, it's all true. I managed Melbourne's Oriental Tea House (serves yum cha) and I was really disappointed that Perth yum cha places don't come nowhere close to Melbourne or Sydney quality of food service. If anybody knows good yum cha, let me know. :o)

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