Tropika

Ordered satays-the chicken tasted weird. Like it didn't taste like chicken. Sambal clams and Kang Kong were ok. Not good and not bad. The coconut seafood rice was also weird/bad. The coconut flavour was off and the seafood over cooked. It tasted like metal coconut rice. For $100 .. including 2 beers. The meal wasn't worth it. This is the last time I'm ever going here.

Overall a mediocre place to eat. The environment is fancy, clean, and eye opening. The employees are kind and would recommend food when I asked for recommendations. Food presentation is nice and neat but some dishes lack spices and the necessary flavor to make the dish great. The skewers of lamb and beef were a bit rough, but had decent flavor and presentation. The beef from my beef curry was stiff and solid. Therefore the beef is overcooked, even though they did execute the presentation and flavor quite well. The muscles is the main highlight of this restaurant. They have good taste and presentation, overall the most well done dish out of the lot. But I have had better muscles for a lower price. What shocks me the most is that every simple dish is overpriced. I can buy every single one of these dishes for two thirds of the price. This place is OK if you want to dine in a fancy environment, but I would simply not recommend this place to anyone, due to overpriced menu items, the lack of flavor, and poor execution (overcooking the beef,and awful textures for the beef and lamb skewers)

I remember Tropika used to be one of my favourite restaurants period. Loved their Seafood Coconut Fried Rice. But it has been years since I've been there and so the change in prices was definitely disappointing. That dish is now $18! Didn't end up getting that as I was not ready to pay $18 for fried rice. We ended up getting one of their combo platters and an order of hainaese chicken. The service was pretty quick but our server wasn't particularly pleasant. The food was surprisingly pretty good, and we liked the variety in the combo platters, but the high prices is discouraging us from going back to Tropika anytime soon.

Lunch food here is great. The curry combo at for lunch is reasonably priced, has a lot of food, and the curry is great (also spicy). The salad sauce is also nice, something I rarely notice at places. The service of some staff (especially what seems to be the male manager) is actually awful. It seems like he puts actual effort to try and let you know that you are beneath him and he is in control of your fate. I would reduce the rating, but sometimes you'll get someone else to help you, or you can order take-out. I don't actually dine in here anymore, so I can't say if his attitude has improved, but as he's been doing this for some years, a miracle is unlikely to happen.