not so laughing buddha

One of my friends recommended this joint as a cut-price dinner on the run, stop and slurp place. I wish he hadn't - should be renamed the Double Yeeuch. Upstairs is where they have the lunch-time special, total tourist bait. They dangle the low price tag so they can suck you in for the drinks and cosh maneuver, I don't know what they added to the monks vegetable or the roast duck that we had, it was something salty and unpleasant designed to make you feel viciously thirsty. The vegetables were so old they should be picking up Pension credit. Wilted, rung-out with less life than a geriatric washerwoman. The decor was pleasantly stilted. The place has a thin welcoming veneer that covers a cesspool of total disdain. I don't know what they add to the food to make it taste so vile and make you feel so damn thirsty but its something outside of any idea of fair trading. My dining chum also felt the same, as if his tongue had been sandpapered with a hairy dogtail. Grim grub and the horrid after taste lingers on and on and on ... the Laughing Buddha should be on Gordon Ramseys make-over programme - now that would make the Buddha smile again.

A User - 01/01/2009 | report this review