Chinese Food in Korea is Crap

It's been a while since I spit bile onto the 'culinary delights' of Seoul. that's because I ate so much shit that I had no desire to remember less reminess about them for eternity in cyberspace.

Had a moment of inspiration and some time to kill so here is my latest and as usual hesitant visit to a public eating place I haven't yet had the opportunity to be disappointed by.

China Factory opened on the Daehangno, Hyewa main drag recently. Their semi-chinese fare is expectedly koreanized, yet it's less disappointing than the usual Jjajang Myeong crap or whatever that soggy noodle dish drenched in black sauce is called.

The place has a nice contemporary ambiance with a rather good use of space and a toned down version of 'what Koreans think of Chinese decor is like'.

The food is mediocre by any standards. The Grilled Salmon with Mango Sauce was a truly dead piece of fish swimming in oil, covered with a bit of cheap, canned mango and pineapple mix you can get at the supermarket. Five pieces of nicely grilled mixed vegies were about the only enjoyable things on the plate

The so called Peking Duck had no relations to the real thing whatsoever. It's a glorified version of the usual smoked duck served with some very dry wraps that manage to be something between tortillas and round paper bar napkins.
(If I were them I'd just go ahead and print their logo on them in edible ink)

My Crab Soup with Tofu arrived cold! But since it had no taste either I didn't even bother to send it back. Stir Fried Rice Noodles with Vegetables was so over boiled that the noodles melted off the chopsticks. Taste...er what?
But I cannot stress enough how good the Dim Sum was. By the way; the dumplings arrive frozen, straight from China, in large cardboard boxes which were stacked up behind the building.

Lastly about the service; We have been apologised to no less then five!times. And that Without a word of complaint from either of us regarding anything whatsoever.
(Firstly for the long wait for the menu in a half empty restaurant.)
No doubt this new place have some teething problems but I can't see how things will improve while the young chefs, so visible behind the glass wall, keep chucking pieces of food at each other for laughs.