8 Restaurant — Restaurant in Cairo

This is a hard review to write.

Dinner for 1. Great atmosphere, deco, very friendly and professional staff. Wonderful private table w Nile view.

Started well with chicken and prawn dumplings. Steaming hot.

incredible mango / coconut water mocktail. Asked to leave out the chilli.

Ordered 1/2 Peiking Duck - served 2 ways. Now, I lived in China for 25 years and have had a lot of duck…. This one was just ok.

First course of Pancakes were nice, duck was well cut and presented nicely. Tender meat, but a bit fatty.

The Sang Choi Bao was the bigger problem - very oily - I’m not sure if it was the duck or cooking oil, but the bottom of the dish was swimming in oil. Lettuce was also still very wet. Had to turn it over to get rid of the excess water.

I very nicely asked the manager to show the dish to the chef. They comped me a lovely fruit platter and sorbet.

I’m happy to pay for an expensive meal, but I expect the quality to meet the price.

I’m afraid I would not order the...

Me and my colleagues (8 in total)

The first time we dined was very impressive the waitress LIE ANN (not sure if I spelled it correctly) she's taking care of us really well. She's very accommodating and assisted us about the menus and all. We're having a great experience with her plus our orders came out really fast that I didn't even notice the time.

....Then we dined again and unfortunately she's not there,and I begun to notice the food. Sizzling beef is great and I'm very specific with the soup I ordered (very spicy) that came out just normal 🥲 the waitress understamated the spiciness I meant which I even requested and extra chili that didn't arrive at all. For the record the food is okay but honestly I didn't enjoyed much especially it takes forever for them to serve our food, we felt so tired waiting it feels forever and I should've left in the middle but was trying to be nice since the waitress seems...

As an experienced Chinese food connoisseur from mainland China, I can only tell you that the food here are not that genuine, which means that you should not expect to have a wonderful Chinese food trail. Steamed Dim Sum (e.g. Lobster King dumpling, but without any technique) and soup (especially wanton soup) are the only dishes that I can recommend, cause they fit relatively well with our definition of cantonese cuisine. Be sure to keep in mind that DO NOT order Peking duck or dishes of Sichuan style, it will make you both angry and disappointed. As for fried Dim Sum and Appetizer, they are just BIG JOKE. Those who give them five stars, you are probably not able to enjoy the real essence of Chinese cuisine. Ijust feel sorry about that. To conclude, it is not a restaurant that worth a...