Gan Bei — Restaurant in Riga

They say their food is authentic...

Ok, I ordered crispy eggplants in tomato sauce. Turned out is raw onions with eggplant all covered by ketchup. Maybe just wrong choice I made this timet, but really it feels like you have ate half a bottle of ketchup 😅 Sushi, they are so fragile that they falling apart, so you better ask for a fork or maybe a spoon.

In terms of the food it was disappointment 😥

Staff they are all super friendly, but they serve the dishes in random orders. For some guests they brought all together, I was waiting for 10 minutes between the dishes.

Then every time they come they ask - was it tasty? I didn't have courage that evening to say the truth, so I just smiled. But I am wondering what is going to happen if someone will tell it, like - not at all? 🤔

And when you finished your food, all plates are taken from the table, you sit and wait 🙄 for the bill. So that after 10 minutes you realise that you maybe have to ask for attention and then for the bill.

But in general the prices are low and affordable for average lunch or dinner option, even if to think of a half...

How does an Asian restaurant have so little choices in sushi that does non contain any form of cheese? The only somewhat interesting choice coloured my entire mouth black with what I hope was squid ink.

The rice was too crumbly, not sticking together and falling apart when I touched my peace, that should NOT happen in a place with a decade of experience of serving sushi!

The waitress seemed clueless of how the service was going, as she asked about our enjoyment of the "meal" 10 min BEFORE it arrived at our table.... we waited for 30+ min to get even started.

The ballance of the spices in the food was mostly off, avocado was not ripe at all, felt like I was biting into a green oily carrot, and the shrimp had to be pealed more, I still got a peace of the shell in my bite!

In short, the sushi in this place is not Gan Bei's specialty. If you HAVE to eat here, take some rice with additional side as I believe they even place cheese in the soup (jk). But seriously, not worth...

We went to Singh's restaurant to try it out.

Waitress did speak only Latvian the entire time, despite I was speaking other language to her constantly (wasn't a problem for me though). Despite restaurant was empty she seemed extremely frustrated while serving us.

Ordered stir fried rice with egg, there was WAY too much salt in the egg.

We ordered Sweet Sour Pork and Five Spices Chicken - for us both dishes did taste absolutely the same: both extremely sour to a degree there is no differences.

With 3 dishes out of 5 ordered being a disappointment, we paid 30 EUR. Can't say it was bad (apart from overly dalty egg), but overall it was a disappointment... Could've eaten much better for 30 EUR in many places.

Can't say it's bad, but won't go to...