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| - For starters, this place needs to invest in English speaking wait staff and also in English translations on their I-pad photo order system. The menu was particularly clunky, as it has a one by one scroll with both photos of finished dishes and ingredients mixed in with no apparent reason. The photos were mostly captioned in Chinese, with maybe 5% or so having English translations. When I asked about individual dishes, the only reply I got was "beef" or "pork", nothing else. The waiter tried, he just had no ability to converse with us. I motioned a waitress over, and she also spoke only bits of English. The funniest episode was when I asked about a dish photo labeled skewers, he flipped to another photo, pointed and said "one" then another photo, "two" and then another photo "three". When I said I didn't understand, he repeated the photos and the 1, 2, 3 routine another time.
On to the meal. My wife was not adventurous at all and ordered wings, as did my son. The waiter had difficulty understanding "two orders" and repeated "wings" three times after I said 2 orders, held up two fingers and said one for her and one for him, referring to the other 2 at the table. 15 min later, we got the one order that I semi expected. There was no sauce provided, and my son wants dips, always. I asked the lady waitress for some sweet chili sauce, which should be in every Chinese kitchen, and she returned with a bowl of ketchup, no less. Rice does not come with meals, it is 99 cents extra, a bit of a surprise, since the entree prices seemed to fall on the high end of the scale.
Ok, now on to me. I thought I saw a photo of short ribs, and another photo of what I thought was oxtail, both in a brown sauce. I asked the waiter what each was and got only beef, then pork in reply. Clearly I was on my own. I thought I selected the "short ribs"---which turned out to be pork belly. I also thought I only picked the one entree, yet here comes the other one (oxrail, I thought), which turned out to be sautéed pigs feet, I didn't make a fuss, as I have never tried that particular item, also because I expected my son to try some, and also I had a Groupon. The pork belly dish was fine. They sautéed the pork rather than braised it, which left much of the fat in the pork and it left the skin mushy rather than crisped. The pigs feet were about 75% bone and not at all pleasant tasting. I took 2 tastes, ate the baby boy choy and called it a night.
This falls in the never again category.
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