Liwei's Kitchen & Shop — Restaurant in Vienna

Take a wild guess: how much did I fork out for a Chinese breakfast set? Nearly fifteen euros. Was it worth it? Darling, not even close. The set came with six items, which sounds like a feast until you realise half of them tasted like a Tuesday night emergency run to the freezer aisle. There were xiaolong bao that practically screamed “store-bought,” a lonely tea egg, and a bowl of savoury tofu with some cabbage and seaweed. Add to that some stale Chinese fried dough, soy milk, and a portion of sticky rice so salty it felt like it had unresolved issues. Nothing justified the price tag. I wasn’t paying for flavor; I was paying for a carefully curated illusion of "exotic breakfast chic." Yet, I fell for it: nostalgia. As for the service? What I got was the culinary equivalent of a shrug. No warmth, no welcome just “sit down, here’s your food, now pay.” When I asked for a proper stirrer, the waitress pointed to the soup spoon like I was asking her to part the Red Sea. When I clarified, she exhaled looking for it like I’d just ruined her entire week. If a tiny spoon is too much to ask, maybe hospitality isn’t your calling. She reminded me of every distant auntie at a family reunion who counts your red packet before she says hello. The cruelest twist is that I could tell they were from Yunnan - I grew up on Yunnan dishes. And here I was, face-to-face with a version that felt empty, overcharged, and heartbreakingly hollow. Nostalgia is a dangerous appetite - not everything that looks like home,...

Did a TA. Staff were rude.

Better invest your time on learning English and manners - or just leave the kitchen world and go to drama classes instead, because that’s what you are truly good at.

You don’t speak with me about a dish, and then make up i didn’t ask for it and response that the kitchen is already closed instead of trying to fix your mistakes.

You don’t give me bad looks when your grammar and accent in English of 10 years old in 3rd world country, leads to you not explaining yourself or not understanding the situation and what i ordered.

If you don’t have service awareness- just quit, you are going to lose all customers sooner or later with that attitude.

Good luck...

The appetizers were good, but there were about 2 full cups of oil between the two entrees we got. My boyfriend couldn’t eat more than five bites. I had to spoon off the top inch of oil to be able to eat mine.

We asked for a refund for his dish because it was inedible, and the server brought the chef over to explain that “this is how the dish is supposed to be.” That simply cannot be true. It was enough oil to kill a horse.

The server and chef were nice about it, but would not...