Ruby Tuesday

I’m surprised that my first time at Ruby Tuesday is in Hong Kong.
Coming from Canada and looking at the menu, I was astounded to see that the prices were so exorbitant. In my mind, I was thinking, «I came to Hong Kong to pay twice as much for North American food?» Thankfully, our family friends, who had suggested Ruby Tuesday, informed us that they had a membership card that gave them 50% off everything on the menu (including alcohol). That made the prices considerably more reasonable.
Had:
Mussels — cream sauce was lovely. Didn’t penetrate the extremely small mussels though. This was yesterday’s appetizer special. $ 52 HKD for 10 mussels. Each mussel was quite small. The ten fit into what looks like a small soup bowl.
Nachos — kinda tasted like pizza. Odd, but good. Nachos were not made of corn. I believe they were flour. They tasted fresh though. Kinda nice that it comes with a scoop of guac on top. Not expensive either (once again, with membership).
Blackened tilapia with rice pilaf — new menu item. Comes with some sort of spicy mango salsa. Rice pilaf had cheese on it. I am not a fan of rice pilaf. I was not a fan of this one. The cheese helped… slightly. The tiliapia was not memorable.
Chicken and broccoli alfredo — penne was the thin kind. I liked that. Huge portion. Lots of cheese. Chicken was tender. Broccoli was good. Came with garlic bread which was crispy and had enough garlic to label it as garlic bread (pet peeve of mine is when garlic bread has the tiniest amount of garlic on it). Good stuff.
Wagyu burger — supposedly, they get their wagyu beef from Australia. From what I know of wagyu, it only comes from Japan. I highly doubt what I ate was wagyu. That being said, the burger was juicy and full of beefy flavour (I ordered mine medium, because on the odd chance that what I actually had was wagyu, it would be such a waste to have it fully cooked). The burger had no sauces on it save for what I believe was butter (which added to the juiciness of the burger). It came with fries that were well seasoned with salt and pepper, and the fries were crispy. At half price, it was about $ 15 CAD, which is not bad for a good burger and fries.
Interesting game of the night: Monday is flip a coin day. After you pay your bill, a server brings over a coin, and one person at your table gets to call heads or tails. If you guess correctly, you get a voucher that gives you half the price of the meal you just paid off your next bill at Ruby Tuesday, redeemable within a month. We flipped right. Our family friends get over $ 500 HKD off their next meal! =D
Side note: All the servers speak English, seemingly quite well.
Alcohol note: Didn’t try one, but they have some huge, fishbowl looking cocktails. Without the membership, I believe they’re about $ 20 CAD, but with membership, they’d be about $ 10 CAD?
I’ve been told that most people who go have the membership. Makes sense. Good stuff though. The quality is much better than I expected.