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| - My fiancé had just purchased a car and we were unusually in the area to pick up the title. We stroll in for something to eat, and find that it's very obviously family-owned. I love places like this, but my experience here was a bit...uncertain.
I ordered a customized soup with rice noodles and shrimp and pork dumplings, and the fiancé ordered a grilled chicken dish. Hands down, the best grilled chicken I've ever had the pleasure of eating. It was surprisingly amazing. Moist, tender, fall off the bone, and flavorful. The light char on it was fantastic. The side of rice was also delicious.
The soup, however, was a little off. The broth was tasty, and the noodles were cooked perfectly...but I'm inclined to believe that the dumplings had me doubled over an hour later (give or take). I bit into a single one and knew something was wrong. The waitress must have seen the perplexed look upon my face, because she came over asking me specifically if everything was alright (she was really sweet). I told her it was fine, because, honestly, we've all either endured the dark happenings of restaurants first hand, or have watched Waiting. I won't send food back and order anything afterwards. (Definitely not saying that this establishment would purposefully contaminate my food, but, from experience, I just don't feel comfortable doing it.)
I drank the broth, ate the noodles, and built up the guts to try one more dumpling. That one tasted perfectly fine. Delicious, in fact. But it may have been a single, fluke dumpling that kept me clutching at my disgruntled tummy for hours after. However, I cannot directly make that claim, nor do I want to.
Flan (free with Yelp Check-in) was so awesome. I'd consider it a fairly dense flan, maybe a pudding, but it was great, nonetheless. In my top five.
Overall, the food was quick to come out. Our waitress was very sweet and insanely adorable. The food itself was delicious, though I continue to question. And the establishment is very clean with cute decor. I'll take a second chance here, if we're ever that far from the center of town.
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