Haka — Restaurant in Kolkata

This time my review of HAKA would be divided into parts and this is not merely a review, consider as grievance. Pricing Lunch - 545 + Tax Let me first share some of my personal experiences of last day of which it has made me to believe that Haka is not at all recommendable further at all. Haka is not serving any more starters at the table so when I along with two of my guests entered the staff explained about new changed rule. The tonal quality was something that will immediately irritate you. I am not saying of any abusive way he interacted but his tonal attitude was not welcoming to guest. Secondly the same person dared to take empty plate from our table without our consent. We were having lunch and we kept our starters plate on an empty used plate to allocate the space properly but suddenly he came and lifted the starter plate from table with out our consent and took back the lower plate. Is it the way plate from table is taken while taking food without permission. HAKA is known for its great hospitality but this is completely messed. That oomph factor, warmth are gone. HAKA has deteriorated its menu, service in recent times and upgraded the price. I have felt personally that I have been the customer of this joint long time and written good things several times but now I should also pen down to write about its degradation. I must not recommend to anyone. This para I will talk about the items what I have tasted. Vegetable Sweet corn soup - Good Kimchi, Pickled cucumber - avg Green Chilli Chicken - Worst. Chicken was absolutely not fresh, item was prepared after repeated so chicken was not fresh, hard and dry. Chicken Siumai - Show Stopper 5.Crispy Vegetables chilli plum - Avg Potatoes with Sichuan Spice Mix - Avg Prawns in Sichuan Sauce - Avg Chicken Manchurian - Below average. Chicken Manchow soup was similar in taste with this item. Chicken was extremely thin sliced.Monotonous in taste ofcourse. Fish in Fresh Coriander Sauce - Below average. Fish quantity was less and battered with heavy coating soaked insauce so that it looks big and soft melt with fish but actually taste was bad. Chicken Fried rice - Good Brownie - Worst. upper crust was so hard and tighly least moist that it was less brownie more of a toast. Pastry -Avg Dessert of the Day - Below avg. Probably due to fermentaion time delay it was taste mild sour though adjusted with upper crust...

Being a Chinese cuisine lover this place was always been in my bucket list . Finally decided to visit the Mani Square branch of Haka . As we visited on weekend the buffet menu was for 625+Gst . The menu includes different types of Chinese starters and Main Course.

Few points I would like to mention:

1. The chicken in the starter is not boneless so it's really irritating to consume .
2. Chicken Shumai and fish starter are worth eating. The chicken soup was quite good . On buffet section you'll find two kinds of dip , eat the shumai with it .
3. Veg wonton is not at all upto the mark .
4. Main Course is totally bland , not a single dish stands out .
5. The fried rice is totally bland but has a lot of oill in it !!
6. Noodles was average .
7. Chilli Chicken with watery consistency gravy , prawns were still worth eating.
8. Well , Dessert was really good ! Both the brownie and coconut pastry were great. Darshan was also tasty .
9. 4 kinds of ice creams were there - Mango , vanilla , butter scotch, chocolate.

One thing I would like to mention they will ask you for your feedback and if you want to customise anything you can do so. But frankly speaking the whole main course was so bland that I was hesitating to tell them to customise each dish for me. One or two dish can be customised but how can I tell them to customise 4 to 5 dishes. The X factor is totally missing in the main course.

Giving , 1 star , for Good Ambience 1 star , for Staff behaviour 1 star , for the tasty desert and Fish starter

Deducting , 1 star , for less staffs and poor communication regarding service between them ( They have a major communication gap between them so you have to ask them to provide you each starter , just same as we ask for more biriyani at any Biyebari ) 1 star , for totally bland main course

For a try out you can visit Haka , but don't expect the authentic Chinese taste . If you've visited authentic Chinese restaurant, this place may...

Recently visited this Mani square branch of Haka.

Located at the top floor of Mani Square mall.

I tried the weekday lunch buffet which is priced 478 per person also you can add unlimited mocktails to your lunch buffet at just rupees 50💸 .

Which is a great deal and at very reasonable price the quantity and quality they serve is amazing.

🔻Ambience : This place is quite large and has a comfortable sitting arrangement, giving Chinese vibes with pictures,posters in Chinese pasted all over with simple decor .

🔻Food : I was firstly not very sure of opting for a completely Chinese buffet option as I thought there won't be much variety but to my surprise there were plenty of items and the quality they have maintained starting from starters to main course to desert is commendable.

Most of the time I have experienced the restaurants focus more on their starters and deserts in buffet and completely ignore the main course but here it was different. I was as always full having too much of starters but I wanted to try more and more main course items as even the simple veg noodles were so tasty along with the fish and chicken items.

🔻There were Soup, Salads, 4 kind of starters, two rice items 🍚 two kind of noodles and three different main course consisting veg, chicken and fish. In the desert there were four kind of ice creams 🍨 with 4 more dessert options. I had something,I can't really recall the name but it tasted kind of a baked sandesh and it was one of the tastiest desserts I have ever tried.

🔻Staff : I have first time seen in a buffet the staff serve everything at your table if you want them to and they are always concerned,always taking good care if their customers want anything,if they are enjoying the food or not.

They were very quickly filling items in the buffet section so that they serve only hot and fresh food.

Would love to...