03/23/09

beware of dishonest servers at chinoise seattle!!

by buglife

i was surprised to see my credit card statement with 32% tip when we ate at chinoise seattle. luckily i am the type of person who keeps receipts. i put in 12% tip and what j.jackson did was added full $10 on my original tip!!! what a ripoff!! beware of this trick, they write (1) infront of your tips to add full $10 to your total bill.

• Pros: good food but,,,,,
• Cons: surprisingly dishonest servers!!!

09/08/07

Yuckoise

by spankmehard

The variety of Asian foods does spark interest, but this place is ?the ?Jack? of all trades and the master of none.? Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Japanese foods are available. There isn?t a wide selection, but there are popular dishes from each category. Thai phad thai, Chinese Mongolian beef, Vietnamese pho, and Japanese bento box. The environment is casual ? not classy at all ? and the service was the same. So I wouldn?t bring a date here. The food was OK at best (it must be the MSG). The sushi was HORRIBLE. It?s a nice idea to have a selection of popular dishes from diverse restaurants, but why eat a variety of just OK food? The biggest disappointment was the Spider Roll sushi. The chef apparently ran out of ingredients, or was too lazy to make some, so he filled in the middle of the Spider Roll with extra rice. Superior sushi, at Ototo, is just available across the street. The biggest quirk about this place was that you have to pay for tea. No class. Low quality. Average prices. Don?t waste your time here.

• Pros: Wide Variety
• Cons: Bad Quality, Street Parking

11/04/06

My problem with "Chinoise"

by phasmid123

Ok I must tell you I have never eaten at Chinoise. I've always wanted to but something bothers me greatly.

The word "Chinoise" means "Chinese" in the French language. So here in USA, we have a sushi (japanese) restaurant with a name that means "Chinese" in French. Would you want to eat at a place with such contradicting and confusing name? What kinda food do they server there? Is it Chinese, Japanese, French, American, some of the above, or all of the above?!

Imagine you are in Italy, you see a restaurant's name in English called "Mexican," you walk in and find out they serve neither Italian, Mexican, English/American food but Ethiopian food. Would you stay or leave?