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| - I had a buytopia deal expiring so I decided I'll try this place again.
At the front door, they are advertising a chinese new year special where you get a free dumpling (presumably, a plate?) on orders over $20.
The restaurant is still brightly lit and clean like before, with lots of space to move around.
The washrooms are a bit strange: you have one for men and one for women, but there aren't any sinks inside. Instead, there's a shared sink outside...
Before, they had these glass cups.This time, they upgraded to mugs with chairman Mao on it. Not sure what it's meant to represent.
This time I ordered the kung pao chicken and the dumplings on fire.
I thought the chicken dish was alright. Pretty generous with the peanuts. Food was only somewhat spicy, which I kind of prefer over the ones where all you can taste is spiciness in your mouth.
The dumplings came out, but then the person that served it up suddenly came back a minute later to inform me that it wasn't made properly and will have it remade. Some parts of the skin did look a bit uncooked and I was sort of looking at it, so perhaps they noticed? Kind of interesting.
The dumplings came with a generous amount of peanuts as well to the point where you couldn't see what's under it in the pictures. There were 9 dumplings underneath though.
The skin is ok, but I didn't like the filling inside the dumplings.
Portions are a bit small for the price, but there aren't too many other sichuan/chongqing places in this area (closest is probably chinatown), so that may be something to consider.
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