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| - Since my family is Taiwanese, I was very excited to try this place after hearing about it. I really wanted to love this place, especially since they do have many traditional dishes on their menu, had great ratings, and were clearly very popular based on how packed it was when we went. Maybe I hyped myself up too much...
Went for dinner with a friend on a Friday night, so as expected, it was crowded with group of people waiting to get in. It was a 15 minute wait, not bad. From the moment we sat down, however, they were clearly trying to get us out as quickly as possible so they could get as many customers in as possible. The server came back to our table about 2 minutes after seating us to ask us if we were ready to order. We'd barely had time to read the pretty extensive menu, so we asked for a couple more minutes. Server was back in about 2 minutes like clockwork. So we just picked something fast.
Food comes out - friend got stir fried rice noodles. Nothing spectacular. I got the beef noodle soup, always the first thing I try at a "Taiwanese" place since it's my favorite popular native Taiwanese dish, but one that's difficult to get right. The broth makes or breaks this dish...unfortunately it was very bland. Even asked for extra heat, and it wasn't spicy at all.
The sticky rice appetizer was tasty, and the boba milk tea had good flavor and nice chewy tapioca balls, so there was that.
Anyways, maybe only 10 minutes into our food, my friend is eating a bit slowly and has put her utensils down. The server comes up and asks if she would like a box. My friend says "yeah, eventually," and before she can say anymore, the server snatches away her plate. She brings it back wrapped up, and also brings the check even though I am only halfway through my food and still quite actively eating. We don't touch the check yet since I'm still eating. Server comes back a few minutes later, sees the check is untouched, picks it up and puts it beside my bowl on the other side to kindly remind me its there. Ok, fine...I'm not really enjoying my food at this point with someone so intent on getting us to be done and leave, so I get my food boxed up and pay so we can leave.
After my food is boxed up, I'm trying to finish my giant mug of bubble tea as quickly as possible without having to swallow boba balls whole. Another waitress comes over and asks "are you waiting for something"? I'm just trying to finish my drink, c'mon...literally sucking it down as quickly as possible without choking on tapioca.
I really don't care if the server is friendly or not...I'm there for the food and not smiles and small talk. I get it, weekend nights are busy and there's a wait line and you want to get as many customers in and out as possible. But being made to feel like a huge imposition from the moment we sat down, which made eating very unenjoyable, plus our food just being average, makes me hesitant to come back, even though I'd love to explore the menu more.
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