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The decor is simple - no gaudy chandeliers or gold gilded walls here. Instead there is light wood paneling on the walls, halogen lights recessed into the ceiling and blue "mood lighting" strips over the center part of the ceiling. The front/back part of the restaurant can be partitioned off to make a private room.
What I noticed right away was the overall cleanliness - the tablecloths are bleached white brocade fabric, you can see into part of the kitchen from the main dining room, dirty dishes that the waiters clear away are put into Rubbermaid storage containers with lids (so they can be stacked, and also don't look disgusting to customers walking by the "cleanup station") The washrooms have no doors - they are airport style where you walk around a little wall. I liked this since restrooms at Chinese restaurants are usually gross and I never want to touch anything... Automated soap and pull-down paper towel dispesers are also a nice touch. Obviously the manager here thought about hygiene.
The food was pretty good but service was a bit slow. About 4 of our main dishes made it to the table before we were brought our tureen of soup. A few bowls of white rice also took about 10 minutes to get to us. We ordered 3 large crabs prepared 2 ways - fried with chili salt, and wok fried with ginger and scallions. Both were too salty even though we had requested that they be prepared with less salt when we ordered and overall it took away from the crabs. Other things like chicken, fish, stir-fried beef with gai lan (Chinese broccoli) were good, not exceptional. The pork ribs were not impressive.
For dessert I've been used to getting a tureen of red bean dessert soup tossed at me at almost every Chinese restaurant I've been to in the past few years, so I was very surprised and delighted that they brought out THREE desserts for us! There was the red bean soup, but also black sesame (tzee ma woo) and tofu dessert soup (dou fu fa).
Dinner for 8 came to about $120 (with taxes and gratuity). The parking lot in this plaza is small considering there are lots of restaurants in it. It got busier later in the evening (around 7:30-8pm).
During peak evening dining times (Thurs-Sun, after 7pm) be sure to call a couple of days ahead to book a reservation; in fact just save yourself some grief and book a reservation regardless! Each time I come here there's a sign taped to the door saying "Fully Booked" - meaning they don't even want to bother dealing with walk-ins and apologizing for being busy.
(I also noticed the security cameras all around the restaurant... Wonder what they are spying on... )
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