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| - My parents have been wanting to check out this place for a while now, and what better occasion to go than when their favourite (read: only) daughter is back in town. Since I've already been to Casa Imperial several times, I was really excited to see if this restaurant would be as good.
The place itself is gorgeous inside. It's definitely strange for a Chinese restaurant. I don't know how wedding banquets can be held here, so the restaurant is split up so much with different floors and stairs. It seemed quite small, and much longer / narrower than I imagined from the outside.
I suppose most people come here strictly because the food is amazing, because our service was so far off the mark. We had the hardest time getting anyone to come by our table to take our order, refill our teapot, get our bill, etc. despite servers and hosts chatting away to more frequent diners at the tables next to us. It made us feel completely unwelcome, and halfway through our meal we were ready to leave :(
The food is the only saving grace. The sticky rice is fantastic and contains a lot of filling. The pea shoot and king mushroom dumpling had a great flavour to it, and the honey short ribs (as always) were a hit. We also ordered the squid tentacles, but it never arrived so we cancelled it just so we could get out sooner.
The place is posh for sure, there's no early morning dim sum discount (unless you're friends with one of the hosts I assume), so I don't think we'll come back here often. Since the food quality is the same as Casa Imperial, I think we'll just head back there instead - I find the people there so much nicer.
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