Lunar Cuisine or 'Old Neighbour' if you directly translate the Chinese name into English was one of the Sichuan cuisine restaurants that flooded the Brisbane scene along with its next door neighbour Fortune Well. Hubby and I used to frequent Lunar Cuisine with our families and there was consensus all round that this was a great Sichuan place even for haters of oil, chilli and almost all things delicious such as my mother in law.
Friday night we felt like some spicy food so hubby and I decided to revisit. We were told the inside was full so we were seated outside. A friend of ours walked by, saw us and came to say they will be eating next door as this place has gone down hill. If only we listened.
When my black bone chicken soup came out I was excited as this was one of my favourites from childhood. I opened the lid only to taste--radish and pork? Before I could ask the waiter still at my table another waiter appeared and set down --black bone chicken soup. So waiter number 1 delivered somebody else's pork soup to my table, this happens, I get it. What surprised me was that the pork soup was then taken back with the lid on, despite me informing the waiters that I have tasted it and yes there is most certainly traces of my saliva in it. Fine, maybe they tip it out the back or maybe they don't and it just winds up at the table next to ours in a remarkably short time.
Lot's of assumptions for what happened there but lets give them the benefit of the doubt. The next incident though there is no doubt in what happened. We did order 1 rice, but after all the mistaken plates somehow we had FOUR bowls of rice on the table. I have no idea how all of it got there-- most likely due to all the mistaken dishes that were delivered to us, the waiter then realising but still dropped off the rice.
Either way, while we had an abundance of rice on our table a nearby table to us had none. We hailed down a waiter (by hail I mean grabbed) and informed him of our abundance of rice but no dishes. On his way back to check our order he was also grabbed by another table to inform him of their lack of rice. This guy is a total genius--did a 180degree spin back to our table, grabbed 2 bowls of stone cold
possibly eaten rice and plonked it on to the other table. Fastest and cheapest way of solving a problem.
Hubby and I were lost for words--this guy was genius. Obviously he was 100% , without a doubt certain that hubby and I have been nowhere near those two bowls of rice in the past hour that we have been sitting in the cold waiting for food, plus of our disease free status. The receivers of those two possibly touched bowls of rice dug into them so fast--and barely a grumble about it being cold. Hey, I understand, if they had been eating dishes that were as meagre,salty, oddly flavoured and oily as the ones we were soon to receive, I would be diving for rice too.
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| Husband and wife lungs a.k.a tripe and other cow parts in chilli oil . Possibly safest dish of the night |
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| Supposedly sticky and sweet beef ribs. There's plenty of rib/bone and it'll be served cold to ensure the sauce is coagulated sticky |
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| Stir fried pork strips with chilli sauce which is actually sour and not very much chilli |
If you were that couple, its ok, hubby and I are completely healthy.
This place goes on the avoid at all costs list--for health as well as your taste buds. Unless of course you're feeling adventurous and wanting to sample recycled food.
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