Nat's reviews
Review of Wong Kei
04 Jul 07, 15:57
Service not included 
Three floors serving perfectly decent Chinese food, at very reasonable prices in the heart of Chinatown, with endless free supplies of delicious green tea. So far, so good? Yes, but as the bill states (perhaps not realising the irony), ‘service is not included’. Only go here if you have a very high tolerance of sullen waiters banging plates down in front of you, have an intense dislike of the words ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and thoroughly enjoy being loudly accused of blindness if you misread the bill. Last time I went, the waiter physically shoved me into my chair because I did not sit down the instant I arrived at the table. This is the only place I ever feel entirely guilt-free about not leaving a tip.
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Review of Whole Foods
25 Jun 07, 21:24
Being ethical can mean paying a lot and eating bad sausages
I was very impressed when I first walked in - there are escalators for trolleys, and jets of water squirting periodically over the fresh produce to keep conditions right. But look again and you'll see the range of fresh goods is actually quite limited - I couldn't find a pot of cress, for example.
Some options are deceptively pricey: used to Morrisons' salad bar (sold by pot size), I stuffed a large salad pot full of cold cooked veg. Unfortunately it was sold by weight and came to £11! (No, I couldn't believe it either.) The pork and leek sausages were also over-priced, but while the salad was quite nice, these were lumpy, chewy and generated instant belly ache.
I dislike the mainstream supermarkets as much as the next hippy. But if you want to support local, ethically-produced food, and to actually enjoy eating it, go to a farmer's market or join a box scheme instead.
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