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| - We were in Vegas on Valentines weekend for a soccer tournament. We had braced ourselves for mediocre food and inflated prices due to the place and time. On Sunday my son and I walked around to check out the strip and walked through the Bellagio. When he read the menu, his first impulse was "this is where we're bringing Mom to dinner."
We came back around 8pm and had to wait in line for 50 minutes (after reading other reviews, we got off easy). We waited in line with a wonderful older Asian couple from Manitoba in town to watch the Rugby Sevens. This was there 5th time eating there over the last couple of years. Their recommendation, "order whatever you want, there is nothing bad here."
The food was excellent. I loved the sweet and spicy cucumber salad, and the beer was as cold as could be without icing up. The shrimp dumplings were steaming hot and the filling was a savory shrimp mixture that was fantastic.
The XO Crabmeat Vermicelli was delicate and had complex flavors. I was wanting something with more punch to it but I think this was my poor choosing not a shortcoming of the dish. The BBQ pork was so delicious, smoky, sweet and tender. My son had the BBQ pork and roast duck with jasmine rice. I will take him at his word that it was "really great." There was none to try after he annihilated the platter.
It is pricier than you might find elsewhere, but you are in Vegas, so it comes with the zip code. Its the Bellagio so it looks good, the food is awesome, the (mostly) Chinese staff is aloof, but I would certainly go back.
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