Steamed Rice at Gong De Lin — Madeleine's Review (Oct 3, 2025)

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For these kind of small side-dishes I like to detail the atmosphere of the restaurant and overall experience. The rice was plain and simple steamed rice 👍 Now for the experience:
After you ride a small, tinny elevator plastered with stickers up to the 3rd floor, you find yourself immediately in the tiny restaurant. There’s kind of a dingy atmosphere with the hum of a vent/refrigerator, clanging of metal utensils, aggressive slams of a microwave door, and shouting in Cantonese for music 😆
The middle-aged lady seems to run the show but none of the younger wait staff seem to have any idea of what’s going on/ what you just said in English/ what you’re trying to order. Lol.
There’s chilli oil and two identical Kikkoman soy sauce bottles labelled just S and V on the table in baskets that haven’t been washed in 3 years. I poured out a little of each to taste and it seems like V means black vinegar and S means soy sauce, so don’t get them confused. There are also paper serviettes and flattened Coke cans wedged under multiple tables to stabilise them. The sickly greenish lighting bouncing off the puke-green booth seats make for terrible food pics but I guess that’s how it is. I found the restaurant wifi and asked a wait-bro for the password. He denied there was a wifi network until I showed him that my phone found one, then he came back 5 minutes later and said it wasn’t working so therefore I can’t have the password. Each dish also came out 10 minutes after the other and not at the same time. To summarise, you pay for just the food, not the service or atmosphere here 😅 If you’re ok with that, come and try Gong De Lin!

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