满江红 Red Lotus Restaurant — Restaurant in Mississauga

I want to say that the food is not fresh, highly priced, portion is small, no taste, very oily and handle to you burned dishes in case you order pan fried chive pancakes.

Honestly, the menu is heavily overpriced for everything in comparison to surrounding competitors that offer the same dishes.

The food portion is shrinking a lot, and food qualify is really bad. There is no consistency in taste and flavour, or I can responsibly say that there is literally no taste and no flavour at all for some dishes, it simply just tasted boiled in water and /or soaked in oil. For example: pan fried beef tender or salt and pepper shrimps.

The pan fried chives pancakes uses unfresh chives, the crust is always burned out, oily and loaded with dark burned crusts, sometimes they will give you old made ones.

Their bubble tea is disappointing, it is loaded with heavy non daily creamers, and sugar, there is no difference or no richness between drinks. There is no refreshing or chill feeling consuming it. I strongly recommend shuyi tealicious or...

DONT EVER GO HERE. First I would say the food was okay. Nothing much to complain and I am impressed by the way get the customers order. Fully digitalized. So there won’t be a big communication part with the staff. First bad thing was the washroom was so bad. Not cleaned and when I complained the cashier girl did not care at all. She just gave me a an “Ah” and went back to her work. Im 100% sure she understood what I said. And the next thing we paid in card and we paid the total some how my friend missed to give the tip which he passed the options in the machine. And the cashier girl suddenly started to shout telling tip tip. I was like it is not necessary to give a tip. No law tells that we have to give a tip. The way she asked it I wonder how she was trained on customer service 🤮. We just gave $5 and she grabbed it right away and we came out with so much frustration. Will not recommend this place. There are many restaurants here in Toronto which you can eat Chinese food...

Today, my friends and I went to eat at this restaurant at around 5:30pm. Halfway through our meal, I suddenly thought about getting a few cups of their milk tea since I had seen on Uber Eats that they were offering a buy-one-get-one-free deal on White Rabbit Milk Tea. So, I placed a pickup order.

Our meal for a few people totaled around $100, and we also left a 15% tip (we paid beforehand). When the milk tea was ready, they wouldn’t let us drink it inside the restaurant? Hmm… why? They said that since it was a pickup order, we had to take it outside to drink.

Okay, if that’s the rule, then why were other diners allowed to bring in milk tea from other places? If we hadn’t been dining in, would they have not let us drink it inside at all after picking it up? Maybe I asked the wrong staff member for help—I had asked if they could bring the milk tea over once it was ready, since we were in the middle of eating and didn’t want to wait around. But then, a staff member specifically came over to remind us that we couldn’t drink their own milk tea inside the restaurant, saying:

“Pickup orders must be taken outside to drink.”

But… we were literally dining inside their restaurant? So if we had ordered for takeout or dined in and ordered the milk tea separately, we could have had it inside, but since it was a pickup order, we had to go outside? What kind of logic is that?

What’s even more ridiculous is that the table next to us had milk tea from another store, drinking it right there, and the staff didn’t say anything? So other stores’ milk tea is allowed, but their own isn’t? Did they just randomly make up this rule?

If this is really a “policy,” could someone explain the reasoning?

Are they afraid their own milk tea will affect their own business?

Are they worried it’s too good, and too many people will buy it?

Is it because it was a BOGO deal and they felt like they were losing money?

Or were they unhappy with our 15% tip?

Or did they just not want to help bring it over?

I’m honestly so confused…

In the end, we only got to drink our milk tea after we finished our meal. [GoodbyeR] But if they had a reasonable explanation, I would’ve accepted it. Their food is still considered pretty good for Mississauga.

今天和朋友去吃了密西满江红。吃到一半突然想买个几杯他家店里的奶茶喝～ 因为之前在Uber上看到了有大白兔奶茶买一送一 就觉得喝这个比较好～ 买了pickup 的。我们几个人吃 吃了大概$100左右吧 也给了15%小费。奶茶做好了但是不让在店里喝？嗯。。。why? 说是pick up order 必须要pick up在外面喝。OK如果这个是规定的话 为什么别人吃饭的可以带别家奶茶进去呢？如果当时没有在饭店里吃 难道点完单就不让在店里喝吗～？可能我麻烦其中一个店员麻烦错了～ 叫她帮忙 如果奶茶做好了 可以拿过来吗 因为在吃饭 不想在那里等很久～ 然后店员还特别来提醒我们不能在店里喝自己家的奶茶，说是“pick up order 就得带出去喝”，但我们就坐在这家店里吃饭啊？所以如果我们是外卖点的或在店那里自己点，就能堂食喝，如果是自取，就必须出去喝？这是什么神奇的逻辑？更离谱的是，隔壁桌的客人明晃晃地带着别家奶茶在这边喝，店员却一点反应都没有？所以别家的奶茶可以，他自己家卖的反而不行？这规则是随机生成的吗？如果真的是“规定”，那能不能解释一下这个规定的意义是什么？防止自己家奶茶影响自己家生意？还是怕奶茶太好喝大家都来买？还是因为是买一送一所以觉得亏钱了？还是因为嫌我们的15%少了？还是因为觉得不应该让他们帮忙拿个奶茶过来？真的好迷惑……...