Red Orchids Asian Bistro — Restaurant in Heemstede

We live in Heemstede for 4 years now, finally wanted to try this Bib Gourmand place for our daugher's birthday - she loves Japanese / Fusion kitchen. Started off pretty strange, we couldn't order the menu as one of us can't eat onions, and the kitchen was not able to NOT add spring onion garniture to each plate. OK - first time for everything. Take note: next to us there were only 3 tables - not a very busy night I hope for the kitchen. We took individual plates without onions to share (all still had onion :-). Dishes were well prepared, great fusion style and good balance of flavors (some a bit sweet...

Restaurant calls itself "Modern Asian" but in reality that just means "contemporary standard western"

Ordered a banana leaf wrapped sea bass that tasted quite mild and bland. The fish also had quite a few bones in it.

I also tried the Szcheuan Trio dish and it came in a very well decorated plate. However the food tasted like something you made a home by putting together frozen chicken and veggies mixed with a bit of teriyaki sauce.

Service was also a bit slow despite the fact that there were not many customers at the time .

Overall, normal bland and bit over priced food presented in nicely...

I don't understand how a place with food like this can have these kinds of reviews.

The nigiri was served with wodden chopsticks straight out of the lunch service. Size of the nigiri does not mean that bigger is better.

Pricing was terrible for what you got. My local asian foodtruck with half the price does it 10x better.

The meat was terrible, tasted as if it was curated with baking powder.

In the 22£ dish there was frozen corn bits that you buy from the store. Selery does not have anything to do in this kind of food.

Would choose a pizza over...