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| - The food's more or less a three. The rest of it, however, leaves much to be desired.
Even on weeknights, this place is busy. It's also noisy. There aren't enough wait staff. It took about five minutes after we had been seated for them to bring us tea and menus. The tables are awkwardly placed. There are tables that are almost perpendicular to each other, and we're talking about square tables, so for klutzy people like me, walking around in a cramped Chinese restaurant with tables that are perpendicular to one another means I'm going to jam my hip into a table corner somewhere while trying to get by. That's not fun. The tables aren't necessarily clean. I found a green onion on my table after they had placed the table settings and the utensils down. Yeah. That's all before my meal started.
Had:
Ginger and green onion salmon heads in hot pot - probably more an accurate description of the dish, and not necessarily it's accurate name on the menu. I believe it was $7.99. Decent sized portion. I'm not a fan of ginger and green onion. I'm also not a fan of salmon heads unless they're pan fried or grilled. That being said, it was served piping hot and the salmon was moist.
Tung choi with shrimp paste - Not the cheapest, but also a decent sized portion. Good color. Good texture. Not a fan of the bits of filler green and red bell peppers they slipped in there though.
Free range chicken - I've never seen free range chicken this shade of yellow before. It was so vivid it was almost orange. That's bad. It's also artificial. The coloring seeped into some of the flesh, so I know it was added to the chicken. Not cool. That being said, the chicken was juicy and flavorful.
Sweet and sour pork - Crispy. Decent portion. Served in a pineapple. Real pineapple bits, not canned. Some of the pieces were a tad big though (as in more than one mouthful).
Halibut with tayaki sauce (I believe that's how they spelled it on the menu. On their website, I believe it was spelled terriyaki sauce). The plate and the portion size were way off. The plate was really big. There were only four thin steaks on it. To my knowledge, halibut is a pretty big fish. If this was really halibut, these steaks either came from a really small fish, or from the tail end of the fish. The steaks were battered and fried, then served with a slightly sweet sauce. These were lovely. I really do wish the portion was bigger though.
Chili turnip patties - I'm a tad disappointed. Definitely not as big of a portion as Congee Queen. Definitely not as crispy on the edges. The inside is also a tad mushy. Also a tad lacking in the chili department.
All in all, the food was decent, but I've had better.
I was going to give this review a three, because I wasn't sure it deserved a two, but on my way out the door, I got splashed by fish tank water because one of the Mr. Congee staff decided to plunk down two wet buckets. Why did he do this so close to me? Because their fish tanks are between the first and second set of entrance doors to the restaurant. If their staff are trying to get fish from the tanks, it's a tad hazardous to enter or exit the restaurant. I was actually inside the restaurant (inside both sets of entrance doors), but I still got hit. That was totally not cool.
I definitely won't be making any effort to come here again.
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