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| - I went here twice in two separate occasions and I have to say the 2nd time around was much worse. Food was 50/50 okay. They got the basics down. Shu mai, shrimp dumplings were good. Atmosphere - room was gold everywhere. Gold wallpaper, 6 chandeliers. it was bedazzling. It felt like you really walked into the emperor's palace.
I went the first time with a couple of friends of mine really early on a Saturday morning because we both were craving for some congee. Wonton gourmet was not open yet but I figured I give this place a try. We ordered their congee with pork and preserved egg. At first, I wanted to order a different type so my friend and I can try both but when we inquired about it, they told us that they didn't have any and that they had only made the pork one only.Maybe because we were there way too early but if you have it on the menu, you should have already made it. If you need time to make it, come early and open the shop. It had the right consistency however, it was way too salty. When it was time to leave, it took them twenty minutes to figure out that we wanted them to "mi dan". There were about five waiters and waitresses standing around clueless of what was going on. We both just went up to the counter and only then they figured we wanted our bill. There were not many tables there and I thought there shouldn't be any sort of waiting but this was a big letdown for being here for the first time. Poor customer service.
Second time around I went with a large group of friends, maybe 8 or 9 of us. At first, I didn't want to go because I had such a bad experience for the first time. So I said, let's try it again because maybe I went way too early. This time it would be considered the time where the majority of people would go, around 1pm. Knowing that some of us have already dined, we all ordered everything what we wanted. I believe there were over ten items. We figured they could just bring everything out at the same time and we would get a feast of dim sum...but nope, they only brought out what they had available at the time. So if you can imagine 8 hungry men and women waiting on our food. Finally we get some food but it was only about 5 or 6 of the items we ordered and that was waiting for about 10-15 minutes. Hungry as we were, we gobbled it all up. Come ten minutes later and another, the rest of our food came.
A list of some of the items I remembered:
Sticky rice ball - had no taste and outer layer did nothing for me. We thought this was the sticky rice with the leaf but we kept an open mind. If it had taste, I'd think otherwise but blah.
Buns with spring onion on top - it had pork inside, this was on the contrary very good. We had 3 plates of those.
Red Pork Buns -bread was soft but not enough sauce
Shu Mai - fatty pork
Shrimp Dumplings or har gow - some of my friends liked the thickness of the rice paper but I didn't. I still liked the ones from Li Wah better.
Shrimp Noodle - noodle was thick. Maybe it's based on people preferences but I like mine thin and that it doesn't taste like last night's food.
Spicy Chicken Feet - plenty of big fat chicken fat, this was actually to my liking
Would I come again? Probably not.
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