Bento King

I’m disappointed to be leaving this review but here goes…
I’ve been ordering from Bento king for some now — either from my just-​eat account or my partners. Service has been swift and consistent. We were happy with what we got each time and the food arrived hot and on time.
Bento King aren’t the cheapest, but I tended not to mind at least I knew it was good quality.
That was until last night.
After a long weekend we decided to treat ourselves to a takeway. We both ordered the same dish.
I’m sorry to say the the food tasted truly horrible. It was bland, tasteless, lacking in any redeemable qualities. It’s main characteristic was that is was ‘watery’.
We both threw our food away — a total waste of £20.
We contacted Just-​Eat, who acted professionally to our messages. They contacted Bento on our behalf.
Bento came back and said that the food was cooked exactly the same, via the same chef to the same standards — which to me reads ’ it’s your fault you thought the food was terrible’.
It’s not the error of the food that I take umbridge with — it’s there unwillingness to deal with our compliant. If they had dealt with our complaint it could of been resolved. It’s not how I would treat repeat customers.
I will not be ordering takeaway from a Bento King again. A truly disappointing experience.

I have a quest in Chorlton, and it’s to find a good chinese takeaway, my friends can’t name any that they can say are stunning, so I’ve taken it upon myself to try as many as possible until I reach a verdict, it’s a hard choice but I do it for you people. the Just Eat app has become a joyful little friend as it means I don’t have to actually find these places.
Bento, is ok, it gets the job done. BUT there is a slightly dark side to Bento, but to understand I must give you the background story, so sit down while I tell you a little story.
Back in the day I didn’t hail from Chorlton, I came from Bramhall, we had a little chinese near my home, I’d used that chinese for maybe 10 years, this was 10 years in the early days of drinking, me and friends would get the drinking on and get the Chinese to sit in front of films with. We’d feel awful in the morning, firmly put down to hangover of drinking large scale. Then a strange thing happened, I gave up drinking…
Calm
Breathe
it wasn’t permanent
But it was for a nearly a year, to which we still had our chinese still… and I’d still feel terrible in the morning ‘like’ I’d been drinking all night, you can imagine the frustration and hangover without the drinking it’s like some kind of punishment devised by satans minions. It was at this point we realised, our local chinese was not so great, because they thickened all their sauces with large amounts of MSG, which ain’t great.
For anyone who doesn’t drink, or is too young to if you ever want to know what horrible hangovers feel like just get eating some food with MSG in it and you’re pretty much there.
I think sadly Bento falls into this category, I’m usually pretty fortunate in that I steer towards dry dishes with chinese, so I don’t normally fall foul of this sauce thickener, but having used these guys a few times, I’ve dabbled across the menu to see what’s what and some sauce things have come my way, and I’ve had terrible nights sleep and a hangover style morning to follow.
So what does this mean, Bento ain’t written off, but I’m just going to be wary about what I pick off the menu