Thursday, December 24, 2009

D'Kantan.. much to be improved


It has been awhile that we wanted to try D'Kantan Restaurant. The location, refer to the above map. It is located in Kubang Kerian, somewhere along the road to Bachok.

In one word..inadequate. At least at that moment of time. Maybe, if you are lucky enough, you may find it terrific. But, sorry, with the state of things at that time, in that sole visit, it will not tempt me to go there again, ever.

Initially, it was a winning start for the place. Upon entering it, one may be mesmerized with all the great ornamental plants in the zen like garden. But, once seated, the nightmare and anger began.

The waiters were untrained, lacks knowledge of the food in the menu (don't we usually get that here?) and dressed inappropriately. They are just unkempt and looked like shuffler turn waiter! No, no.. they looked like some haggard street shuffler, inappropriately holding a piece of pen and paper. Nothing like a waiter.

We ordered fish simmered in spicy sour sauce, fried mushroom, seafood tomyam and stir fried mix vegetables. Except for the latter, the others were pathetic. There were no sourly taste in the fish. The tomyam was pale and didn't taste anything like tomyam at all. The taste of the lemon grass was overpowering. The fried mushroom didn't looked like it at all. Only a few button mushrooms were dumped in, buried under heaps of flaccid cabbages. Other than that, it was tasteless.

Still, I must compliment certain things. I still love the surrounding. The water feature in the middle of the dine was a great idea although there are still huge rooms for design improvement. Reading materials were provided. Positively, it encourages reading habit, but in such occasion, one would be most of the time spending quality time with friends and family, chit chatting and catching up with each other.

Will I go there again? Nope, surely, if no improvement from the one described above.

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