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| - My rating for this restaurant was flip-flopping between 4 and 5 stars just soon after I finished eating. However. I ended up giving this place a 3 star rating.
As most people have probably noted, you must be prepared to shell out a bit of cash to eat at this place. I decided to do the dinner time run rather than the typical dimsum run tonight after some light shopping at Costco.
This place more or less is comparable to the level of Crown Jewel or Casa Imperial in terms of decor, service and price.
Service wise, terrible English support. However, I was willing to let go of that fact in my rating tonight.
We ordered two crab balls at $6.50 each. At a price difference of fifty-cents between here and Crown Jewel, this place was far far better in taste and amount of REAL crab in the crab ball. The paste they used also didn't taste like the shrimp paste of Crown Jewel, I think they infused it with more of the crab stock so lessen the shrimp paste taste and after taste.
Second we ordered their House Premium Home Made Fried Rice at just under $21. The rice was correctly done unlike the one I had last night at Mr. Congee. Now the price may throw you off. But the amount of rice they gave was more than normal and it was rich in flavor itself so you don't really need to eat much if you had some other dish to balance it off. We had to take some home and I `gluttonized` some of it unnecessarily.
The rice was filled with many flavor ingredients including scallops, chicken thighs, shrimp, straw mushrooms and some dried orange thingy that I don't know what it is. The "premium" flavor does come out.
They also provided us with dessert.
Note that they have a "tea charge" of $1.30. Their Chrysanthemum Tea was slightly odd, in that it had a bitter taste to it, so I wasn't too keen on it.
If I wrote the review just after I finished the meal and paid for $44 for two people for a rice-filling dinner. Then this would've been a toss-up between 4 and 5 stars. It's good food and the price matches the food, service and ambiance.
However, when I got home their secret ingredient kicked in... MSG. Knocked me out when I got home. So after considering that they had to use a "cheater ingredient", I had demoted their score to a mere 3. If I was in a bad mood or if I was annoyed that their staff didn't have anyone who can speak English to talk to us about the food like Jyo-san at Solo Sushi Ya or the owners of Casa Manila (both establishments BTW do not use MSG to my knowledge), I would've put them as a two.
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