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• Would Never Go Back

I've long been a fan of the Loving Hut enterprise, so was very disappointed to have one of the worst dining experiences of my life here. My dining companion and I ordered the green papaya salad, assam curry and rice. The waitress brought out the curry first, leaving us without any cutlery or crockery. I called her back to ask for plates and the rice, but she waved me away and approached the next table to take their order. The family had only just sat down, and told her they weren't ready to order. Flabbergasted, my dining companion and I stared at the bowl of cooling curry while the waitress walked to the far end of the room to start setting another table. This was despite the restaurant being three-quarters empty. Eventually she brought us cutlery, crockery, rice and the papaya salad. At $17 the latter seemed a little steep, but I felt sure it would be spectacular to account for the hefty price. To our surprise, the dish was quite tiny. Much of the salad was taken up with grated carrot, raw pumpkin and chunks of orange. Not only chunks of orange, but orange WITH THE PEEL LEFT ON. After picking out the unnecessary and unpeeled citrus, there were barely a few shreds of salad left on the plate. The curry - which seemed to be full of MSG, sugar and oil - was pretty tasty, but contained far more sauce than filling. After spending almost $40 between us, we left hungry and put out by the rudest, most off-handed service either of us had encountered at a vegan eatery. *UPDATE* I did end up returning, due to nearby Finas being closed, and had a Bun Hue - comprising a few broken noodles at the bottom of a bowl; very little flavour; and the only 'veg' [apart from the customary beanshoots-cabbage-herb platter] were maybe one or two wilted FIELD [rather than Asian] mushrooms. The slice of lemon was so overripe it was basically off; and there were all of TWO pieces of tofu, with a few scattered pieces of mock meat. IMO the soup was worth a maximum of $10 [perhaps with the addition of some actual vegetables, and shitake/enoki/oyster mushrooms rather than field mushrooms]. Charging $14 for what they dish up is blatantly taking the piss.