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| - We arrived Sunday at 1 pm; although another reviewer suggested this would be an okay arrival time, it appears to have been too late.
We were seated at a rickety table (althuogh the place was only about 1/3 full); when we asked to be moved, we were ignored. When we made a move to move, an employee shooed us back to our table. While this wasn't a great way to start, we had read good things about the restaurant and figured we should give it a whirl.
There were very few carts coming around...we ordered some drinks. They never came. Tea was provided. I have no idea what kind it was, but it was good.
We started with an order of octopus tentacles. While the flavour was very good, they were cold[ish] with a pool of coagulating grease on the doily. We ate them anyhow as it was about 15 minutes until something we wanted to eat came by (this is when hot sauce comes in handy.)
The har gao was filled with decent shrimp (not fresh and flavourful but at least plentiful), but the wrappers were mushy and fell apart as soon as we picked them up. Meh.
Nothing else we wanted rolled by, so we asked for a menu and ordered 8 dishes from the dim sum menu. The shrimp and chive dumplings came almost right away. Lukewarm, almost cold. Again with the hot sauce. Now quite hungry, we ate them anyhow (we figured it would be weird for the four of us to send half a dumpling back.)
Some really excellent pea shoots/greens made their way to our table. No garlic, but delicious and fairly fresh, albeit a bit watery. This was the high point of the meal.
We got two shrimp rice rolls (although we ordered one shrimp and one pork.) Again, hungry, so we ate them. The rice roll was the thickest and doughiest roll I had ever eaten. I don' t consider this to be a good thing, but one of us quite enjoyed it.
The other 5 dishes never came. We asked after them once, then gave up, figuring it was time to get out,Our service was unobtrusive, to say the least. It was only when we asked for the bill that anyone bothered to ask us how anything was. When we noted that we were still missing 5 dishes, the waitress apologized, and told us next time she hoped our service would be better. Another person (manager?) came by to ask us how our food was. We reiterated our concern, and she told us the same thing, suggesting that maybe next time we should come earlier. Rest assured there will not be a 'next time'.
Dreadful, and very disappointing in light of some of the good reviews I read here and on another food site. But we only spent 35 bucks for the 4 of us, and were kind of full by the end, so at least there was no insult to injury.
You can do much better in Chinatown than this (Rol San and Noble both being far more consistant), unless ours was an unusually off day both food and service-wise. Somehow, I doubt it.
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