We tried Singapore’s worst-rated Chinese restaurant

I feel I deserve hazard pay for this collection. While the journey has been fascinating with quite a lot of nice surprises, there’s all the time the dread of encountering an actual stinker. I used to be getting nervous final week as I learn up on Forum Seafood Village Restaurant.

The Boat Quay restaurant presently sits at 1.8 out of 5 stars from 222 opinions on Google and 2.0 out of 5 stars from 519 opinions on TripAdvisor. It has collected 259 1-star rankings on TripAdvisor, accounting for 49.9% of all of the opinions there. That determine is even larger on Google however that platform doesn’t reveal the uncooked quantity.

Much of the suggestions from diners point out that Forum Seafood Village Restaurant is grossly overpriced. I took that with a pinch of salt seeing because it was Boat Quay, a recognized vacationer entice. Plus, I might say that nice views of the Singapore River are value one thing.

What I attempted at Forum Seafood Village Restaurant

Forum Seafood Village Restaurant is barely troublesome to seek out. It now occupies the identical house as Tian Tian Fisherman’s Pier Seafood Restaurant— you’ll be able to find them by looking for the massive tanks of stay crustaceans lining the walkway.

Service was barely sluggish and the massive temperature crack on our hotpot desk was lower than inviting, however the nice view and climate had been tremendous consolations. We ordered the Deep-Fried Spring Rolls (S$12), Sweet & Sour Chicken (Small) (S$26) and Fried Rice with Diced Chicken (Small) (S$16).

The Spring Rolls appeared good sufficient within the photos. Oh boy, when the plate arrived, although!

First, all of the rolls had been dripping in oil. There should have been 2-3 whole tablespoons of the stuff on the rolls and the plate. It may occur wherever, I suppose. We requested for serviettes (there have been none on the desk) and patted the oil away as greatest we may.

Then, I took a chunk.

I don’t perceive how they might get spring rolls fallacious— it’s one of many easiest finger meals. You simply have so as to add the diced substances, season it just a little, then fry. Here, the tip end result was so tasteless that, for the primary time in my life, I couldn’t eat even a single roll. It appeared as if that they had boiled the substances to utterly depart them devoid of flavour, then stuffed them in with out including salt or any condiments.

Part of the identify Sweet & Sour Chicken (Small) may be very true and the opposite is kind of false. The appropriate bit is ‘small’— for S$26, there was much less rooster than would slot in my palm. The inaccurate bit is ‘sweet & sour chicken’. It could be described extra precisely as ‘mildly salty batter with some bits containing chicken’.

I used to be shocked to place piece after piece in my mouth and be met with nothing however fried batter and no rooster! Is this even authorized?

Would the Fried Rice with Diced Chicken be the saving grace? All hopes of that had been shattered with a single mouthful. With a very bland style and heated erratically, it made me suspect that it was scraped collectively utilizing leftovers or one thing. I couldn’t deliver myself to eat greater than a few tasting mouthfuls. Yuck!

Forum Seafood Village Restaurant is, by far, absolutely the worst restaurant I’ve tried in Singapore.

Too usually, homeowners and operators are too busy working a restaurant to additionally monitor on-line sentiment. One of the issues I attempt to do to assist stalls and eating places enhance their rankings is to offer direct suggestions. I imagine this easy step has labored up to now, going some method to reverse the flood of unhealthy rankings.

I made a decision to do the identical right here once I requested for the invoice. First, it took greater than 10 minutes for the invoice to reach. When the girl handed it over, I defined why hardly something had been touched, ending with the seemingly-repurposed Fried Rice.

Her solely reply was, “No, it’s cooked,” which was virtually meaningless within the context. Then, like somebody who has been in that state of affairs too many instances, she shortly checked out one other desk and pretended that they had known as her. Not one other phrase, she was gone.

Final ideas

This was the primary time in doing this collection that I felt that each one the adverse opinions revealed on-line had been justified. Trying to rationalise what was occurring right here, I feel the homeowners should not stay in Singapore. That’s the one method that they haven’t stepped in and made adjustments.

It was humorous, although, that the restaurant was amongst people who had probably the most occupied seats, riverside. When I appeared round, it appeared that nearly everybody was consuming beer quite than consuming. It appears that their beer costs are fairly affordable.

I may discover no redeeming function of Forum Seafood Village Restaurant other than its beneficial location. For that incidental reality, I’m comfortable to offer it an extra half-star.

Expected injury: S$30 – $60 per pax

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