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| - I decided to try this place after a colleague of mine recommended it.
The restaurant was fairly empty at 7:00pm, with an excess amount of serving staff.
My party of 4 decided to order the special meat balls dish, with hot and sour soup, minced pork green beans, fried and boiled dumplings, along with white rice.
Let's start with the food first: soup was insanely spicy, too spicy even for a hot and sour soup. The meatballs were not firm, filled with more rice, and an odd taste (don't recommend ordering it at $16.99 for a tiny dish). The only decent items were the dumplings which were at least flavourful. Our bill came to $75 for everything - which was a rip off!
On to the service, at first things were fine, water was provided, order was taken in a timely manner. Things started getting pretty frustrating when we found ourselves asking 3-4 times for soya sauce, then the bowls of rice we ordered. Maybe 2-3 servers passed us by without acknowledging we needed something. The worse part was their attitudes, didn't properly listen to our requests and just ignored us for the most part.
Now comes time for the bill... the day before they had posted on their Facebook page that they were having a soft opening promotion, 10% off all orders until August 31st. I had mentioned this promotion to the server and she simply responded "oh... um... we finished that promotion, we are not offering that anymore" to which I replied "you guys posted the offer on your Facebook page just yesterday" now the server looks uneasy, looking around, and then says to me "oh yeah we decided to end the promotion early". This is very poor management, especially for a new business. It is definitely a front and not the "fine chinese cuisine" that they advertised to be.
I don't recommend eating here, as there are many other better places in Chinatown!
Oh, I've also noticed something pretty alarming, their in house restaurant menu prices do not match the ones listed on their website/delivery menu!
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