Bosses

After many months of passing-by the shop and promising to try out "next time", hubby and I finally decide to eat at Bosses one late night.

Maybe because it's near closing or because they didn't have enough staffs, we stood outside the shop for quite sometime before someone spotted us.

We ordered tea, congee and some side dishes.

The food arrived first and I was slightly pissed that they forgot about our tea. We had to remind them that they have yet to serve us our tea, but after that "reminder", they kept refilling our teapot. lol.

Hubby love the food and we both think it's somewhat better than Crystal Jade. I felt that it's rather expensive but hubby thinks it's worth the price we pay. :)

I like the tea cups with handles because I'm not very good at holding hot tea cups. Hubby likes the 3-button "remote" that's placed on every table. He thinks it's very useful since we can easily get assistance for bill, water and help. At first I was quite skeptical about this remote, but after "testing" it, sure am I impressed with their speed. :)

I had the chance to visit Bosses this CNY season and was glad to finally try this place out after reading FZ's review.

I liked the decor and the ambience of the place a lot. It was mostly done up in black and they had booth seats lining up the sides. They had nice spinning lanterns down the centre of the restaurant. The squarish black tables had little drawers which had the menus in them. This caused us some confusion as we were given the seasonal menu on the table and were clueless about the daily one in the drawer until I discovered it much much later. The server didn't point that out when we asked if there were other dishes so that was a minus really.

We wanted to order stuff to share... but with the limited choices, we picked one-dish stuff instead.

Food Ordered: 川湖辣子 - Fried Chicken with Chilli When this dish arrived, we were stunned. My friend commented that it was pretty hard to find the chicken bits. We did in the end, and counted 12 small pieces. Nonetheless, it was very tasty. The chilli taste is not just on the exterior of the chicken but it's in the meat too.

云吞鸡拉面汤- Wanton Chicken Noodles This was mine. It came in a very nice bowl with two sides which was interesting. My noodles were in the larger section and the tasty soup and wanton was in the other. This soup is the sort where they cook with plenty of meat so that they needn't add in MSG (not too much anyway). I finished the soup totally. The chicken was marinated and not just the plain chicken slices you would usually find. Very tasty dish but the quantity was really really small, since even I, a small-eater, didn't find it quite enough.

秘制牛白腩拉面汤- Beef Noodles My companion thought that the noodles was fine but the beef had a lot of fatty bits in them and some parts were so bad it was hardly edible. He also finished it in a jiffy since the serving was small.

鲜虾海鲜拉面汤 - Seafood Noodles The friend who had this felt that the taste was good and the seafood was fresh. The soup base was tasty but again, a small serving.

香港腊味红米饭 - Rice dish This was fried rice wrapped in a leaf. It came really later, after two reminders and when everyone else had finished their food. The texture of it was good and the rice was tasty. But there isn't any special ingredient in it which made it feel like stuff you can get from any Zhi Char stall.

The bill came up to about $90 for the 4 of us, including a pot of Jasmine Tea. Expensive really considering that we ordered four small servings of one-dish meals and one side to share. I was quite undecided as to what rating to give, since I felt that the quality of the food was pretty good. The service was really bad and need a lot of improvement though. Hmm a 2.5?

** My apologies for not knowing the English names.