"Dreadful"

A review of Ruby House Chinese by Chris Goodchild written on Sunday 23rd of November 2008

A friend and I went to this takeaway on a Saturday night and ordered the following:

- Pork balls

- Egg fried rice

- Duck with ginger & spring onion

- Squid in black bean sauce

For the remainder of this review I will call the pork balls "prok bills" as they barely bore a resemblence to real pork balls.

The prok bills had absolutely no pork in them - basically a batter shell with some lesser-cooked batter inside. Very little flavour and very sickly.

The egg fried rice was something of a saviour in this meal, however there are probably few people who can't make this dish themselves so I don't feel they should score extra points for this.

The flavour of the duck and spring onion was surprisingly pleasant, however this dish suffered by not having enough actual duck. The duck that was there was very fatty and overcooked.

The squid in black bean sauce, again, had a nice flavour. There was a decent amount of squid but the major problem with this (and any other squid dish) was that the squid was so overcooked. It was tasteless and rubbery.

All in all, we were extremely disappointed with this food and ended up chucking most of it in the bin. For £15 pounds this should have been a bargain, but I can't help but think we'd have been better of grabbing a couple more beers instead. The fact that they gave us 20 prok bills instead of ten (as we requested) was no consolation; in this shakey economic climate they should be trying to save their batter.

As the title says: dreadful..

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