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| - The food here was delicious, the prices were amazing, but we had a terrible experience.
Prices: $27 bought us a 4 course menu (soup, egg rolls, two entrees, fried rice, and oranges/fortune cookies). We only had about $35 Canadian left on our last night and this was definitely the way to get the most out of it. They had 5 different 4 course menus so you could pick your combination of food. Unbeatable.
Food: Delicious. We had been to the restaurant next door the night before so had a pretty fresh comparison. To start we had the shrimp cake soup with greens. The soup base was under seasoned (we added soy sauce) but the shrimp cakes were extremely flavorful and the greens were bright and still had a bit of a crunch. The eggrolls were way too oily and just had salted bean sprouts in it...gross. The salt and pepper shrimp was incredible. I removed all the fried parts from mine and the flavor was still incredibly strong. The shrimp themselves were high quality. The fried rice was flavorful but subtle ( soy sauce wasn't the main ingredient). Finally we had a chicken stir fry - amazing. The chicken was so moist and high quality and the vegetables were perfectly prepared. The food was so good and so high quality, I wondered how they could afford to basically give it away.
Service: Terrible. I am usually a very generous tipper, but this was a no tip situation. We got our first two dishes relatively fast. Then a huge party sat behind us, the place got a little busy and they forgot about us...for half an hour plus. When we were finally able to get the waiters attention(we were in a corner) he came over annoyed and waved us away as we tried to explain that we hadn't gotten our main dishes. He brought the dessert serving and then the check. When we tried to explain again that we hadn't gotten our main courses, he didn't believe us, had to bring another waiter over to verify before finally getting our food 10 mins later. Seriously, why would we lie about not being fed?? They brought the food with no apology. Terrible.
We get that our experience may be isolated, so take it with a grain of salt. Great deal, great food, questionable service.
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