Saikei - Holiday Inn Express (North Greenwich)

• I'm not a believer in the notion that every meal and mouthful has to be some kind of life altering experience with fancy presentation and fusion flavours
• All we want to do is get in our car
• This was a bit of a last minute trip (the fridge was empty and we were feeling the post Christma blues)
• Crispy (tick) and with all the accompaniments that one expects with enough quantitiy to share between us (tick)
• It's just as well that this is the kind of informal place where they are more than happy to give you a takeaway box
• We kept it simple with egg fried rice and a portion of salt and pepper baked prawns as well as a portion of chicken chow mein
• The interior is quite large compared to many other Chinese restaurants I have visited and you can park on site
• The service is polite but not overly intrusive
• Usually visit whenever we are craving for dim sum
• Best time to go in the morning or early afternoon when the food is still hot and fresh
• The better dim sum places in London are mostly Hong Kong style
• Sai Kei restaurant is one of them
• This Chinese restaurant was recommended by another fellow foodie Malaysian who works in See Woo at Greenwich
• Was a family favourite and that was quite hard to beat
• I am not complaining but every time a number was called we were longing hopefully that it would be us
• Walking quickly with springs in our steps (I wonder if
• We looked as though we were running) we did not waste any time to order
• The congee was good &ndash
• Thickness was so smooth that it was as though drinking a thick soup
• More good news is that Sai Kei is opene for dim sum during week days too
• Hopefully there is not such a long wait
• Don't worry if you forget because there is a big bright sign
• The surprising thing is that it is inside a Holiday Inn Hotel
• I took my aunt with me as we were watching a concert at the O2 and thought to take her somewhere nicer than the restaurants in o2
• The service was slow but I would like to strongly complain about the appalling service from the waitress who served us
• She was very rude when she was taking our orders
• She came back after 30 mins when all our food were served and tried to take our dishes awaY while we were still eating them
• She just came back with some containers and DUMP them on our table
• You would think that a manager would come round to check why but they were just too busy talking to each other as there were hardly any people in the restaurant
• Food and service is absolutely awful
• The staff chats amongst themselves and there is no customer care
• This restaurant is not even mediocre
• It looked like leftovers and there was no care in how it was presented
• We stayed because it was a birthday booking and did not want to kill the night for our friend

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