Monday, January 3, 2011

Mr. Chow Wow

We enter Mr. Chow's, a very famous hot restaurant in New York City. They tell us they are all booked. So as we are leaving, they call us back. One of our party is mistaken for a famous rockstar, so we get a great table.The name implies, Chinese Food, but it's kind of a mix of Italian, Chinese, and  who knows what.
The Waiters are all Russian. The waiters also try to rip you off any which way they can. So if you go be careful what you order.  The first thing the waiter asks is if we want  Cristal or Dom Perignon,  we  say what year Pelligrino do you have?  Then he proceeds to take our food order. He wants to do the ordering for us, but we stop him and say  we will tell you what we want. We continue to order a bunch of stuff from pasta, to  scallops, to dumplings and fish and more. The waiter shows up with extra orders of  each, instead of 1 order of scallops there are 2, instead of 1 pasta there are 2 1/2,,, anyway, the scallops arent scallops at all. it is tofu shaped like a  scallop shell.  I say" this isnt a scallop" he says  yes, that's our scallops, see they look just like  a scallop".   Then in a while the check comes.  There is a $15 charge for green vegetables, which we never ordered and we never got. We say to the waiter" excuse me, but we never ordered greens, and we never even got the greens we didnt order and yet you charged us $15 for them."  He says, in a thick Russian accent, " Listen my friend, it is cheaper this way, if I didn't put it on the bill it would be many more dollars."  I say, "  wait a minute. You are telling me, by getting charged for the greens we didnt get  and we didnt order, we are saving money?"  The waiter  promptly, says loudly "EXACTLY!" ,,,, do I say WTF  here.  I still cant believe it..  I put up a stink, and demanded $15 dollars taken off the bill ,because this is the most bizarre thing I've ever heard.  It's a good thing we didnt get charged $300 for the Dom Perignon we didnt order or get.  Anyway ,,, the waiter  goes over to the computer to adjust our check. He is there for quite some time,,, It is apparent he is having a problem,,,,  He can't figure out how to  adjust the bill.... He comes back with 15 dollars cash and hands it to me,, It just cracks me up.

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