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   Piu Piu said 2006-08-24, 22:35:

   Speaking of Life Cafe, don’t you just love their substandard service?! I used to go there few times a week for lunch, tea and dinner. I stopped going because…

   Several months ago, I went there with my boyfriend for dinner. While we were enjoying our food, I suddenly found a piece of hard-to-chew thing in my mouth…and I thought, could this be a piece of bone…how could this be…it’s a vegetarian restaurant afterall…so I carefully spooned the piece of “thing” out of my mouth…and guess what?! It’s a piece of chipped dishware…it’s the size of half a peanut.

   After a bit of looking into the “thing”, I found out it actually matched with the serving plate that they use in the restaurant! Of course, duh!!! Did I think it’s from my mother’s kitchen?! So I politely asked the Manager to get Bobsy (one of the owners), who happened to be there that particular evening, but he was busy with the live band on the rooftop and so the Manager asked what she could do for me. I simply told her what happened. And she was like, okay, whatever, and offered me a desert as a consolation prize for hitting the jackpot! Hey…there’s more to her attitude.

   I went there with a girlfriend for lunch few weeks later. And here’s a lady taking us to our table and it suddenly dawned on me that she WAS the Manager when I hit the jackpot few weeks ago. Just wanting to say hi to her, and she was like who in the world you are…I politely asked if she was the ONLY manager there…she said yes. And so I asked if she recalled me and the chipped piece of dishware…in her disgruntled face, she said, What?! Here?! Was it here or somewhere else?!…Are you sure it was here in this restaurant?!…In Life Cafe here?! (Guys, you’ve got to add a fair bit of attitude into her responses to get the juice of the lines.)

   I was thoroughly embarrased but luckily my girlfriend was very supportive of my outspokeness which I was and still am very grateful for it. After the Manager walked away, I told my girlfriend what happened during my last visit there.

   In the course of our lunch, one waitress came and asked me to see the Chef before leaving. It indeed reminded of me of seeing the Principal after school because of something real bad I’d done. And I thought okay, whatever…having experienced the attitude of the Manager, I must admit I was real skeptical as to what was coming next.

   The Chef in fact came to our table promptly after we finished our mains…very good timing, dude. He’s an easygoing, friendly Aussie dude knowing how to respect one another. First apologized for the “chip” and asked me to tell him the nitty gritty of what happened. In our conversation, I found out that the incident was simply went unreported to him…because the kitchen keeps a log book, for to write off any chipped or broken dishes or whatever in the kitchen.

   I must say I left Life Cafe happily that afternoon because the Chef handled the whole situation beautifully with SINCERITY. Sadly I have not gone back since…I feel that unless the quality of their service is enhanced, just like every one else, I deserve to be treated fairly and nicely.

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   Mandy said 2006-11-08, 16:01:

   Hello my name is mandy

   I would like to introduce another good vegetarian restaurant which is located at Wan Chai.

   Restaurant Website : http://www.worldpeacecafe.hk/index.html

   It is also a western Style restaurant. The place is calm and warm. The food is delicious although little bit expensive. All the staffs are volunteers!

   Besides, it provides ” Meditation with Lunch” too~

   I am happy there are more and more western style vegetarian restaurants in HK.

   If I have chance, I hope I can try “Life Cafe” and “哈佛提素” too~

   OvO

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   arden said 2006-11-08, 20:02:

   Hello Mandy,
   天下太平這地方，我知道，確是好地方。也認識見道法師，有不少朋友是他學生。
   但那裡晚上沒有開放，且在灣仔，我故較少前往。
   謝謝你在介紹這個好地方。
   Arden

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