Careful as vegetarians! I have been here a few times and it is one of the better Darwin restaurants. Usually order from the vegetarian menu. Yesterday we ordered the vegetarian version of the "duck" red curry.
We definitively received the vegetarian version as there was Tofu in the dish. But there was also several small and one bigger piece of duck meat in there. This quite obviously shows, that they cook the meat curry and then serve the "vegetarian" dish, where they remove the meat and just add Tofu. That in my eyes is cheating. It is unethical. Is it legal?
When we made the staff aware, they became very defensive and nervous and tried to explain, that it must have been a mistake and they served the regular meat dish instead of the vegetarian option. When we pointed out, that if that was the case, there would have been more duck and no Tofu in the dish, they ran out of lies and got the supervisor. He also tried to explain further, that a piece of duck may have slipped into the dish. Oh, man. Really? More lies. We asked to talk to the cook, to find out, how they actually prepare the vegetarian options, but he never came out. After running out of dodgy explanations, their face and body language gave it away. Caught in the act. We will never eat there again. Even though the food there generally looks fine and most people are happy customers, eating out for us also means, apart from eating good food, made out of quality ingredients in a clean kitchen, under hygienic conditions, etc., ...it also means trust. We eat what you prepare and serve. And we just cannot trust this restaurant any more, if they cheated us and lied. And we would not even have been the first ones. Hopefully we will be the last once who got scammed by this "vegetarian" option.
